Sentences with phrase «on cynical attempts»

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Brad Gerstner, CEO of Altimeter Capital, called United's proposal «a cynical attempt to preserve power by this entrenched board,» in a statement on Tuesday.

So again, the company is being shown doing the minimum possible — in what might be construed as a cynical attempt to check another compliance box and carry on its data - sucking business as usual.

I am forced to believe that your participation in the program is a cynical move on your part to improve your image in the international community, an image which is constantly marred by your unethical marketing of breastmilk substitutes and other widely publicized immoral acts (ie your recent attempts to exploit the impoverished Ethiopian government).

«Let's call this push for increased influence in schooling for what it is: a cynical attempt by the church to «stop the rot» and boost its numbers both through the evangelising of children and through the quite shameful practice of requiring parents to sit on pews simply to ensure their children can get a place at a local school.

We are still mulling over what he wrote, but we are struck by how cynical it was for the governor to begin his statement with a long attack on CUNY and an attempt to create a false equivalence between CUNY's problems and the -LSB-...]

He's cynical about Plaid's attempt to pin the economic woes on Labour, when Wyn Jones is the one in charge of the country's economy, and instead puts the emphasis on the improvements which have been made under Labour.

We are still mulling over what he wrote, but we are struck by how cynical it was for the governor to begin his statement with a long attack on CUNY and an attempt to create a false equivalence between CUNY's problems and the $ 800m bid rigging scandal centered around SUNY Polytechnic, SUNY Research Foundation, and state controlled non-profits controlled by his administration.

After swiftly establishing, commenting upon and making fun of the most cliché - ridden plot motivation imaginable for an antihero in love, the bulk of the film focuses on Deadpool attempting — in his cynical, trying - not - to - care way — to save a rage - filled mutant teenager with pyrotechnic powers from a super-soldier from the future (Brolin's Cable) intent on killing him, Terminator - style.

«Based on real life events» doesn't often mean much to this reviewer — too often those words are (ab) used in a cynical attempt to lend credibility to a story otherwise struggling to maintain it.

While the alleged attempt to have a fundraiser shut down because of cynical and unscrupulous donation tendencies on the part of 4chan were misguided, and handing her enemies more ammunition, it did not warrant a backlash of this scale.

Having said that, these paintings are not meant to be read as cynical, but rather as honest attempts at articulating the frustrating task of determining what is art, what is not, what is work, what is not, what is pleasurable, what is not, and so on.