Sentences with phrase «of desperate attempt»

I think it was some sort of desperate attempt to hold myself together when I was falling apart.

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It makes me very happy to see this recipe, as it reminds me of a desperate attempt to make rice pudding while I was studying abroad in Florence.

Simply put, as part of a desperate attempt to keep America out of recession and himself out of the ranks of unemployed Americans, Obama has torn a page from the questionable Keynesian play book and just asked his political opponents for permission to toss the mother of all Hail Mary passes.

After four months of desperate attempts to save my faith, I came to the sad conclusion that my faith was based on an ancient superstition; a superstition not based on lies, but based on the sincere but false beliefs of uneducated, superstitious, first century peasants.

After a month of desperate attempts to up my supply - supplements, pumping, everything - the lactation consultant suggested I had insufficient glandular tissue.

Mr. Tetteh, who was speaking to the Ghana News Agency in Accra, said since Dr. Rawlings decided to join politics, some people are bent to frustrate her and the efforts to link her to the political heritage of her parents, is one of the desperate attempts.

«It is just the latest in a string of desperate attempts by the Tories to portray themselves as animal - friendly,» she said.

Instead of admitting error, «members of the group sought frantically to convince the world of their beliefs,» and they made «a series of desperate attempts to erase their rankling dissonance by making prediction after prediction in the hope that one would come true.»

These «oh wait» moments ring a clear signal of his inability to save the unfocused screenplay from itself and a blinding sign of his desperate attempts to course correct too late in the game.

This sets off a series of desperate attempts, where Tim ping - pongs back and forth through time, trying to meet Mary again.

-- Mail on Sunday (UK) «This confident and fearless writer challenges us to think about marriage from all perspectives in her first novel... Stay With Me is the closely observed, heartbreaking and original tale of the desperate attempts we make to save ourselves from severing the very bonds that make us.»

They just took the first law designed to promote energy independence and repealed it, all in the name of desperate attempts to increase profits.

Lots of part timers, and lots of desperate attempts at making a quick buck.

Not exact matches

The launch of the bitcoin-esque cryptocurrency, called the petro, is viewed by many onlookers as a somewhat desperate attempt to secure cash amid an unprecedented economic meltdown.

It's not about trying to implement the latest desperate attempt in a long, sad series of stopgap measures that simply adds complexity to the current code base and impedes any real progress.

Peabody's problems have only expanded so far in 2015: Forecasting greater losses than originally anticipated, the company reduced its dividend, laid off workers and even cut the salaries of its top executives temporarily in a desperate attempt to keep the company afloat.

But many desperate people also buy lottery tickets as a matter of hope, in a desperate attempt to get themselves out of poverty.

One result of the new environment could be some players attempting a «brisk and desperate grab at immediate liquidity».

The opposition parties have panned the move as a reckless and desperate attempt to shore up votes ahead of the spring election.

Over the past several years, their government raised the value - added tax and imposed numerous new fees in desperate attempts to address serious fiscal shortfalls that have brought the country to the brink of ruin.

But while kids acknowledged how intimately tied to their phones they are, they also told Freitas of their desperate — and often unsuccessful — attempts to get away from them.

WASHINGTON — Fervently proclaiming that he was actually the one responsible for the scandal involving the adult film actress, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue reportedly stated Thursday, in a desperate attempt to serve as President Trump's fall guy, that he was the one who slept with Stormy Daniels.

As the network groped for an answer to this question, its increasingly desperate attempts to attract viewers, to turn news into BREAKING NEWS, transformed it into something of a late - night punch line.

And this spring, the premier and her ministers have been appearing across the province with random acts of funding in a desperate attempt to get rid of bad headlines slamming their education record,» said Fleming.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is making desperate attempts to surpass the social media titan Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) in social media arena, in terms of ad - revenue and user base.

«The Premier is so preoccupied with her desperate attempts to fulfil even one of her major promises to build an LNG industry in B.C that she's ignoring the rest of the economy,» said Simpson.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is making desperate attempts to surpass the social media titan Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) in social media arena, in terms of ad - revenue...

Taking into consideration WeWork's Finance Chief's recent statements about not making a profit, seeing WeWork's desperate attempts at attracting new clients to fill up its spaces, and Neumann's claimed sale of shares, the question is:

Taking into consideration WeWork's Finance Chief's recent statements about not making a profit, seeing WeWork's desperate attempts at attracting new clients to fill up its spaces, and Neumann's claimed sale of shares, the question is: Is WeWork headed in the same direction as Ouvah?

It seemed Cohn hadn't given up quite yet, and in fact he was planning to make a desperate final attempt to change Trump's mind by bringing leaders of industries that would be hurt by the tariffs to meet with the president at the White House on Thursday.

White House economic adviser Gary Cohn is making a desperate final attempt to change Trump's mind on imposing the tariffs by bringing leaders of industries that will be hurt by the tariffs to meet with the president at the White House on Thursday.

Amnesty, even in its weakest forms of non-enforcement of the law and deferred action, without corresponding action to tighten the border and control unlawful immigration, leads directly to the current human crisis as thousands of desperate children (and adults) attempt to enter the United States on the promise that the administration will take no action against them.

Ever since the first presidential debate, the Obama campaign has suffered from the media interpreting everything they do as a desperate and probably misguided attempt to deal with the consequences of....

The Holy Bible, though divinely inspired, is man's desperate attempt to understand the everlasting enormity of GOD.

He cut through man's trachea and esophagus which detached victim's mouth from the rest of the body, yet he's still making desperate attempts to scream and all the noise is coming out of his neck.

There are times to be serious and also times to laugh, and to remember that God has seen it all before and that our desperate attempts to do the right thing are often worthy of a laugh or two.

(13) Neurotic patterns of relating are desperate attempts to prevent oneself from being overwhelmed by this most painful of feelings.

You brought up «statism» in a desperate attempt to avoid owning up to the reality that governments with an official policy of state atheism are the worst killers in history.

There's a big difference between noticing compatible people and busting out the black book to start running down the list of single guys you know in a desperate attempt to pair us up with someone.

Using the definition of «religion» that some theists appear to be using in their desperate attempt to equate atheism with religion, one could call all sorts of things a «religion» — like Capitalism for example.

They are desperate attempts to recapture one's lost youth or find moments of ecstasy to offset a dull, dreary marriage «before it's too late.»

This is another example of simple - minded people distorting the truth in ANY way they can in a desperate attempt to prove their own fallacious theories.

The ever more desperate attempts to force the world into the shape of a text has been translated and mistranslated a million times into as many languages over thousands of years are the vicious attacks of a cornered animal.

The failure of «the new morality» sends some of our contemporaries scurrying back into various and mostly desperate attempts to revive «the old morality.»

In a desperate attempt to undo what they have wrought, government leaders now promise a full eighteen months of parental leave, thus attempting to save their society by smuggling through the hack door what they so ruthlessly shoved out the front: mothers at home.

In a desperate attempt to bridge choice and faith, many who choose to «interrupt» their pregnancies (the common phrase in these cases) embrace the idea of the transmigration of souls, expecting that the terminated fetus will return in a subsequent pregnancy, wearing a new, improved body.

Fortunately Mary, there are people out there who actually understand evolution, who have studied evolution and who have doc.umented and taught evolution, so that those of us with even a rudimentary education on the topic can dismiss your comment as nothing more than the desperate and childish attempt to cling to religion even as the rest of the world grows up and embraces reality.

Godless is, in many ways, the story of Frank Griffin's conflicting hatred of God and cruelty, and his desperate attempt to discover divine love and redemption.

If they denounce their intellectual adversaries in the harshest of terms, can we not see in this a desperate attempt to beat back the enemy that lurks within — within, that is, Kurzweil and Leibowitz themselves?