Sentences with phrase «people at least attempted»

The world would be a wonderful place if all people at least attempted to live by these ideals.

Not exact matches

The fires, which incinerated at least 30 buildings in the core of Lac - Mégantic, a tourist town of 6,000 people about 150 miles east of Montreal, limited the work of accident investigators, as well as attempts to search for survivors and the remains of victims.

At least the USA is doing something worthy in this world - they are attempting to ensure that people like you don't rule the country and take them any further back into the bronze age of thinking.

Whoever this person is, at the very least, is a horrible writer who uses pseudo-intillectual sounding words in an attempt to impress people.

However, seeing as there are clearly people in this discussion thread who are disinclined to lend equal weight and credibility to the words of a woman when there's a perfectly good white man about I will endeavor to break down one particularly telling statement (to me, at least) in McLaren's non-apology apology so that, perhaps, something might pierce the fog McLaren is attempting to deploy as a defensive shroud.

From reading this thread, it appears to me that, at the very least, some well - intended individuals attempted an overreach that seriously backfired on at least one person that they thought they were helping.

The significance of this chapter (III) lies in its attempt to describe the human impression Jesus made upon people in a way clearly suggestive of the meaning Jesus has for faith, as if a human contact with Jesus were — at least potentially — an encounter with the kerygma.

As of this weekend, at least 1,500 people have died attempting to flee the region for Europe, and, according to The New York Times, «Officers intercepted 10,445 migrants from Jan. 1 to March 31, compared with 2,863 in the same period in 2014.»

Suicide bombers linked to the radical Islamic group Boko Haram killed at least 58 people living in Nigerian camps set up for those who fled their homes in an attempt...

In an attempt to respond to this set of circumstances, the primary strategy, at least for churches in the mainstream, has been to try to help people come to a better understanding of what it means to be a Christian.

Gary, the NRA at least in the person of its leadership has consistently fought every attempt at rational legislation to provide legitimate, legal, and constitutional regulation of guns.

He has a lot to say, but as with a lot of musicians who attempt to tackle anything more complex than a broken heart, people misinterpret his message, or at least, his intent.

Just for those who might take his «argumentation» seriously, describing the wish that everyone would see the same truth as you do is at least a wish for less freedom., even if that is not accompanied with an actual attempt to minimize other people's freedoms.

At least he is not a narrow - minded person who attempts to speak authoritatively about an experience of which he knows nothing.

The shouting throng at the entry — and even his enemies at the Temple cleansing who, however, make no attempt to interfere — either recognize or at least suspect in Jesus» person the Messiah - to - be.

You might not be moved by it, in the sense you still loathe him, but at the least you'll know who it is you detest, how he became that person and what he has done to attempt to be someone else.

By all means people are entitled to get their rocks off and kill the guy and tell everyone how completely s ** t he is but lets stick the knife in with at least some sort of minimal attempt at balance and context.

come on that's hardly regularly and you call ppl plastic fans because you support an outdated manager and have a season ticket since the 70s sorry don't share your views but that's your opinion but here's mine a manager on 9 or 10 million a year should have by now won the club at least one European trophy he's had 21 attempts 2 finals, 2 defeats and has never looked close to winning one since then on top of that maybe your happy of the countless embarrassingly heavy defeats we received down the years 6 - 1 and 8 - 2 at Old Trafford, 6 - 0 at Chelsea, 5 - 0 by Chelsea at Highbury during the early years..

I only watched the second half and while I'm not a tactics and formation person the possession we had at least seemed purposeful as opposed to sterile and once we got to the penalty area there was usually an attempt made at a final killer ball.

Ok, I had a planned C - section, husband was the first person to feed the baby, attempted to breastfeed about twice & then switched to formula, took dostinex to dry up breastmilk (nothing ever really came in so had no pain or anything) and husband does at least one of the night feeds each night.

If, after making the inquiries it thinks fit, the Electoral Commission is unable to serve the notice of objection on a person personally after making at least 2 attempts, the Electoral Commission must --

It isn't clear that aggravating Labour's members and activists in this way is a particularly brilliant mobilising strategy for next May's London Mayoral campaign... it might even be a good thing if Ken (or at least some of the people around him) were to attempt to recognise that.

If the Electoral Commission is unable, after making any inquiries it thinks fit, to serve notice of objection on the person objected to personally, after making at least 2 attempts, the Electoral Commission must --

Cuomo in the coming week is expected to unveil at least a partial plan in an attempt to do an end - run around the new federal tax law that restricts what people can deduct in state and local taxes, such as property taxes.

At least 37 people, including members of the team, died when rescuers from the military and vigilantes attempted to free them.

We will suggest that President Mahama and his people redirect their energies towards at least attempting to confront those challenges.

But he offered only bromides about «talking to people» and a proposal to boost aid to renters — the latter of which, at least, de Blasio has already attempted.

«People have created these types of devices before, but previous attempts with dielectrics have always been paired with at least some metal,» said Willie Padilla, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University.

On the basis of those results, at least one company is attempting to replicate the effect in humans using blood plasma from healthy young people to treat patients with Alzheimer's disease.

Remember that most of these people were probably making some attempt to control fat intake before the study, or were at least used to the idea that fat is «bad» (thanks largely to the USDA, FDA, and other health agencies).

This is a part that bothers us as it does seem like the gym is attempting to at least deceive some people who don't read the fine print.

Since Darwin is known to most people solely from his photo as the bearded, stern - faced eminence behind «The Origin of Species,» the filmmakers behind «Creation,» in attempting to give us the «real» Darwin, are practically inventing the wheel — or at least creating a new one.

Caruso could've at least attempted a vague sense of finality to show some genuine respect to his audience, but closure won't encourage people to follow Four again in a few years.

Maybe we can't stay behind these borders anymore, maybe we have to stick our heads out and make at least an attempt to be a part of the rest of the world right now, while at the same time protecting our people.»

5] I am happy to read some positive news on attempts to make people at least geographically hold on to the view beyond their ethnocentric pride and xenophobic aversion that life could be or possibly is better in other places as well as from people belonging to other cultures too.

And besides that, there will be people who a) have no interest in making money and / or b) don't write well enough to be accepted into the Kindle Worlds program (there does seem that there will be some attempt at quality control, or at least, someone has to go through the stuff to make sure there's nothing that's contractually forbidden).

I am not a «finance» person and would never attempt to actively manage my own portfolio at all (at least at this point!)

People want a knowledgeable market expert to at least attempt to beat the market, rather than settle for the market return.

It is best if this has been established for at least a month before you attempt a transfer, but since Starwood rarely mails me anything, there's no reason to list people's real home address.

I don't think a single person will attempt this contest without at least one Bluebird.

Indeed, the contract specifically states that the Youtube videos must have a «strong call to action» and that required live Twitch stream have at least «five calls to action» that attempt to persuade people to buy the game.

It's amusing if you're a hardcore fan of the Vocaloids, but it's a bit barebones from what you'd normally expect as a «story» mode and feels more like fluff to get people to try out the different songs they might not otherwise attempt normally as you need to clear at least a specific high score to move on.

However, the Playstation Plus February 2017 lineup might get at least some good reviews from people, as LittleBigPlanet 3 is a good multiplayer game with a good number of user - created levels (not to mention two years gave Sony time to fix the game's many glitches) while Not A Hero is a tongue - in - cheek action flick where you try and help an anthropomorphic bunny rabbit attempt to become mayor... by murdering everything in sight.

It was attempting to clarify a BBC report which claimed people who play illegal copies of videogames on chipped or modified consoles cost at least # 1.45 billion in lost sales in 2010.

I am sure, that there was not even a one person in the history, who fnished the game in entirely one try - even the best players need at least a few attempts.

These people tend to stick to the content and ignore those posters who would attempt to provoke them — or at least have an ability to separate content from provocation.

Rather, it is about the design of policies in pursuit of complex objectives in a system comprised of people who are at least as intelligent as the government that is attempting to influence their behavior...»

I've expressed my hope previously that there would be an in - depth discussion of nuclear power between people who I can trust to at least attempt to be objective, so I hope this might provide that opportunity.

Its similar to Monckton claiming the «x10 typo» was a deliberate attempt by government bureaucrats to deceive the world, although one would think that if you were going to try and deceive people you would at least make the column add up.

«These are real people getting real divorces — or at least attempting to get real divorces — and it has all of the human drama of this significant process all condensed down into a very short period of time,» said Mickey Stern, co-chief executive of Base Productions.