Sentences with phrase «other desperate efforts»

Despite elements of evasion, panic, scapegoating, and other desperate efforts to wriggle out of their bad fix, the bishops will not get off scot free.

Not exact matches

The company has taken steps to rehabilitate its image, but some of these efforts — such as a puppy delivery service and other stunts — have been so over-the-top as to seem laughably desperate.

The desperate efforts by physicists to integrate it with the other materialist and mechanicist model has nothing to do with truth, but purely ideology.

The consequence might well have been a greater concentration than ever on our desperate effort to avoid personal death no matter what happens to others.

But anyone who reads Foundations of Computer Science will realise that using C + + to make a large program work reliably after it has developed problems is a desperate measure; reading Interactive System Design would instead make sure you programmed the right thing sooner, and hence relied a lot less on reusing other programmers» possibly bodged efforts.

Others accused it of being a last - ditch effort of the desperate.

One might go so far as to assert that the entertainment industry's efforts to manipulate and numb those who consume its products, its relentless commitment to leaving reality unexplored, on the one hand, and the widespread commission of desperate, violent, anti-social acts (serial killings, school shootings, workplace violence), on the other, are entirely comprehensible at the very least as complementary phenomena.

The film is about the same kind of social overcompensation that virtually any other mainstream comedy is about, but it feels comfortable with this, not desperate to pile on the raunchy bells and whistles in an effort to feel more current.

We seem to be suffering from some kind of mass hysteria similar to the Y2K phenominom resulting in mostly misguided efforts like spending so much time on this issue and so much money on so many other desperate endevours which will almost surely result in many unintended negative consequences while doing almost nothing to actually accomplish the intended result.

In other words, don't restrict your personal branding efforts to times when you are desperate for a new job.