Sentences with phrase «own desperate attempt»

Democrats argue it's a desperate attempt to make Montana a competitive state in the 2018 midterm elections.

The battle was a desperate attempt by the Germans to rapidly and decisively turn the Allied advance into a retreat to the Atlantic.

These wasps are actually on our side: a bug army deployed in a desperate attempt to save our dying trees.

This isn't a desperate attempt to stay relevant, says Maharaj, but a new use for an old industry: «Commercial publishing still has the working capital to produce a gigantic print run and spin up a marketing campaign.»

«In my desperate attempt to treasure my short time with him, I designed and developed a way that I could create an online memory - keeping tribute page for him with his photos, videos, music, life story and pretty much any detail that would allow me to always remember him and his life legacy, Rodriguez writes.

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.

«When entrepreneurs lose cash flow, they give up leverage and negotiating power and risk losing too much ownership in a desperate attempt to raise funding,» says Wunderlich, who is also a partner at private - equity group DCA Capital Partners.

We might be reduced to doing it the old - fashioned way: standing on the curb and waving our arms in a desperate attempt to attract a driver's attention, like some feral primate without a smartphone.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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?

Stewart is brutally honest about the desperate attempts to find their way.

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

Your argument, which is a common one among believers, is nothing more than a desperate attempt to avoid admitting something consistent with all the evidence because you just don't want to believe it.

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.

Why do we spend so much time bouncing around from job to job, organization to organization — all in a desperate attempt to escape the very thing that makes these athletes legendary?

The shop started to go under and, in a desperate attempt to pull it back, I borrowed # 25,000 from my sister.

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.

It is interesting that confronted with truth canadian atheist, commie, pansy types resort to identi ty theft in their desperate attempt to shoot the messenger.

This bondage leads to self - glorying and self - assertion, to a desperate attempt to control our own destiny.

(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.

Pretty simple they didn't know it and you have just decided it descrbes the big bang in a desperate attempt ro reconcile the two.

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.»

The only mistake Obama made with Obamacare is that he overcompromised in a desperate attempt to get the Republicans onboard.

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.

Banning certain things is just a last resort and desperate attempt at control.

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

This is a desperate attempt to recapture the masses as they move away from dogma and belief in supernatural things.

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 keep up with the times, Billboard decided to introduce an algorithm to its popularity contest that allows YouTube video plays to count toward being the number - one song in the country, and guess what: «Harlem Shake» is now our nation's number - one song.

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.

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?

But when, in his worldly strivings he sets out like a madman in a desperate attempt to despise himself, and in the face of this is brazen about it and lauds himself for his infamy, then one can undertake no disputing with him.