Sentences with phrase «real attempt at»

Make it clear to your spouse that you are willing to be honest in an attempt to make a real attempt at improving your relationship.

(I've never honestly done a real attempt at a cover letter....

The application represents the first real attempt at a new SEC approval for Bitcoin or Bitcoin derivative type funds after the rejection of the Winklevoss twins» attempt earlier this year.

Does anyone really believe that a real attempt at fraud would be blatantly labeled in the code?

The first real attempt at 3D space combat was with Macross Digital Mission VF - X, though the less we talk about that the better.

As the first real attempt at a hands - free controller that can work with both casual and core games, of course there are going to be problems.

Would Nintendo's first real attempt at a modern open - world game be a success, or was Zelda hopelessly stuck in the past?

Even though it is available on 3DS and not mobile, I think they used this game as their first real attempt at trying to see if they could do something simple and cheap.

But while Marvel's first real attempt at comedy had good reviews and a sizable box office gross, enough to greenlight a sequel, Ant - Man and the Wasp this summer, there's an ineffable notion that Ant - Man is kind of a forgotten Marvel movie.

Cribbing more from the cringey French dramas of Catherine Breillat (think: a less perverse Fat Girl) than the warm and fuzzy «80s staples of John Hughes, Eighth Grade is the painfully real attempt at comprehending what it means to grow up in a generation overwhelmed with information, which in turn transforms nearly everything about the process into a competition (even more so than it organically is).

I watch a lot of TV, but rarely have I seen something so formless and oddly shapeless as this dramedy premiere (it's listed as a comedy and it's a half - hour, but the premiere contains not one laugh, nor one real attempt at them).

With Whiplash being a serious drama and La La Land being a contemporary musical, First Man seems to be the first real attempt at biopic slash non-fiction film he's done.

A tweed two - piece is probably not most people's idea of activewear, and the plastic - wrapped shoes, bags, and, jackets felt more like a gimmick than a real attempt at practicality, but the therapeutic waterfall did its job.

The first real attempt at doing that was through Instagram, probably my favorite app and definitely my favorite social network.

«Martins» shameful record is why he and his Republican cronies have blocked any real attempt at cleaning up Albany.»

Which is hilarious if you know me, because now I talk about all the time and do it everywhere without a cover or any real attempt at discretion, without a second thought.

So much for real attempts at involving fans meaningfully.

Several years ago when I made my first real attempts at managing my own assets the idea of a fixed asset allocation strategy made a lot of sense.

Cryptocurrencies haven't had their moment yet, and most governments have adopted a suck it and see approach, which has delayed any real attempts at understanding the way forward.

Not exact matches

It inspired a ton of imitators, and their attempts at real - time marketing aren't always relevant; they can be downright spammy.

CNBC's Diana Olick takes a look at how some digital schemers have been able to target real estate agents, title companies and homebuyers with fraudulent emails in an attempt to divert down payment money to other accounts.

With several members of the ECB Committee arguing for this action in the last few months, the real surprise came from Draghi refusing to rule out a rate cut into negative territory (interest rates are currently at 0.05 %) in an attempt to further weaken the euro.

But gun control advocates doubt that Trump really means what he says, after he ran for office warning that his opponent, Hillary Clinton, would remove the constitutional right to bear arms and he rode into the White House with the firm backing of the NRA, which opposes most attempts at real change.

«While many competitors have attempted to automatically capture stats on multiple players in real - time, ShotTracker and Spalding are the only companies to develop a solution that is commercially viable for use at all levels of play,» Ross said.

In an attempt to cast light on this issue, my colleagues at Plexus Asset Management have updated a previous multi-year comparison of the price - earnings (PE) ratios of the S&P 500 Index (as a measure of stock valuations) and the forward real returns (considering total returns, i.e. capital movements plus dividends).

Kevin Grandia, a noted climate - change blogger, observes that this time around, Canada has adopted a passive, do - nothing strategy: before, it had actively blocked attempts at real progress.

Centra Banks Holding Gold While China will attempt to add to its gold holdings without disrupting the global metals market, even a cursory look at the mathematics of the world market for the yellow metal underscores that Beijing faces a real challenge.

Each situation involves real, living human beings and I believe we should respect them by at least attempting to grasp the reality of their world instead or reaching for the nearest category to slap across their situation.

However, at least the Hadron Collider and other scientific tools are attempts to produce evidence of real truth.

Now if we regard all real religions as attempts to get at a special kind of truth to provide some answer to man's intuitions about his own nature, we shall, I believe, find that what we know as «Christianity» comprehends, develops and fulfills all that at heart we hold to be true.

At least Brown and Carmichael are men who made a real choice, who did not even attempt a shabby reconciliation, and who saw clearly that violence is radically incompatible with faith in Jesus Christ.

Hawking is using his «scientific pulpit» to present his opinion seemingly as a fact but it is ONLY his opinion and I see exactly zero attempt at real scientific method to prove otherwise.

This early attempt to explain the real world is called animism and it has been almost universal at a particular stage in man's cultural development.

The protagonist has committed a crime» though in the case of the writer in The Information his crime was an ambiguously attempted infidelity and in Lionel Asbo, it is a real crime, or at least the breaking of a taboo» and then has to attempt to redeem himself....

In response to recent controversies, Seattle pastor Mark Driscoll has written a candid letter to his congregation that attempts to clarify the significant staff turnover at Mars Hill Church and the controversial marketing campaign that gave Real Marriage bestseller status.

I've answered your question about authority with reason giving authority and your attempt at making out that I am not interested in rationalising the «real story» about Jesus.

But it might also mean the attempt to clone human embryos for research purposes - and this, in fact, is where the real focus of scientific interest is at the moment.

Were Dostoevsky living at this hour, he might well ask whether the American reduction of nearly every aspect of human existence, including religion itself, to either entertainment or commodification constitutes a yet worse kind of herd - existence than the one Ivan describes — a subtler and therefore deadlier attempt to relieve humanity of its suffering and sin, and thus of its real character and interest.

After many failed attempts at AIP I'm doing it for real this time:) I'm interested in trying this!

Since The Professor can't have the real deal dulce de leche made with sweetened condensed milk or even cajeta (made with goat's milk, check out Deb's version, it looks incredible) I've tried several attempts at a vegan sauce.

We didn't even attempt to give it to Tim because he has been a real pill at mealtimes lately and we didn't want the dogs to wear the soup since he would have dumped it over the side of the highchair.

Steven your correct mustafi was back pedaling eyes on ball aguero had feet planted with no attempt or even looking at the ball he intentionally interfered with that space and it gets called all year its a clear foul if he trys for a header or makes an attempt for the ball then it is legal bit that was illegal you cant plant your feet make no attempt to play or battle fpr ball and just put your shoulder into back of a backpedaling defender but honestly the officiating across the whole league this year has been an embarrassment to professional officials of all sports its been bad game after game they need a real looking after and more training in off season

Perez announced his candidacy for the top job at Real during the week and the architect of the galacticos era is reported to be keen on bringing Wenger to the Bernabeu, having failed with a previous attempt to lure him from Arsenal in 2003.

i agree we also need to get rid of Arteta, Diaby, Podolski and Campbell probably.This story worries me because the squad is overloaded with midfielders, yet we still need a top DM, the guys i've mentioned in midfield clearly don't come up to scratch imo.Another worrying developement is Wenger talking up Theo playing thru the middle, i sincerely hope this isn't another attempt at trying to get out of buying a top CF, Theo's a useful player but hes not a real CF

I think we should forget about Mourinho and concentrate on keeping Alexis rather than sneering at attempts to lure him away while making no real effort to keep him ourselves!

Liverpool, with their limited capacity for any real flair and grace, or should I say Brendan Rodgers tactic is to come out of the traps at two hundred miles per hour and attempt to hunt the opposition down in packs of two's and three's forcing you to concede possession and then picking up the scraps.

Until the 44th minute the majority of their attempts at goal were fortuitous and can never be regarded as real goal scoring chances.

In an attempt to avoid the usual hype that comes after a few England wins — often against terribly mediocre opposition — this is not a piece suggesting that Rooney, Kane and co. have a real chance of winning at Euro 2016 next summer... let's put that idea to bed swiftly.

It's the same old story with AW and the board and always the cheaper option, despite the fact that we COULD actually challenge for trophies next season as other issues have now come into play, Wenger will say «well we would buy Suarez but he's not available, Benzema does not want to leave Real Madrid» ect ect ect, but these are always excuses after the event these players would move if the right offer was made we could have got Higain two seasons ago the attempts at getting Suarez were truly farcical AND Im not convinced that it wasn't done that way so as to make it look like we tried when really we had no intention of paying 40 million for him.

That's an encouraging step in the way leagues treat domestic abuse — by having its own investigations, unencumbered by the problems that real - world courts often face, Baseball can at least try to institute some measure of justice while attempting to discourage future violence.