Sentences with phrase «say several attempts»

They say several attempts to reach key party supporters to put their grievances to them have proven futile.

He said several attempts made by the complainant to recover his money from the convict months after the transaction proved abortive.

Not exact matches

«Despite our several attempts, by phone and email, to schedule such a meeting, your office's response has been radio silence,» said the letter, signed by the union's president, Randi Weingarten.

Courts had struck down several earlier attempts to prevent online discrimination, saying the FCC lacked authority to impose regulations without the common carrier designation.

Munger also says it's time for regulators to «let up» on Wells Fargo, which has struggled to overcome criticism of several product sales scandals and its attempts to repay customers.

Morton County, in a release, said it had set up shelters at several locations, where a number of protesters attempting to leave the camp had ended up due to difficult driving conditions.

Attempts are being made through several policies to boost Thailand's GDP to grow by 2 per cent in 2014, said National Council for Peace...

«Kraft continues to operate with still some lackluster brands like Jell - O that they've been unable to turn around despite several attempts to do so,» she said on «Squawk Box.»

So as I'm writing my next book — a memoir about church — I started reminiscing about youth group and all the crazy games we used to play, chief among them Chubby Bunny — a game in which several «volunteers» cram as many marshmallows as they can into their mouths and attempt to say «chubby bunny» without throwing up or choking to death.

Hartshorne does not tell us, nor does Findlay, who makes a good deal of essentially the same notion.4 In several recent papers attempts have been made to provide a logic of aspects using different Fregean Under - relations to allow us to say that a given object x is taken under a given predicate - description in a given intentional context e. 5 There are several alternative relations here to be considered.

However, there are plenty of imitators, he says, and several restaurants have attempted to clone their tenderloin - only cooking approach.

Hull City have brought several new players and certainly will not be an easy team to beat — said Jose Mourinho, whose team in 11 league matches at Old Trafford has 77 attempts on the goal, which is more than in the entire last championship in 19 games at home.

«Last night several of the park district officials were sitting down, and we all agreed with the decision that any further attempts to open the water slide were over, «Tookey said.

«We got together and decided that the best tribute to Bill Wingate was to try to continue the work he was doing and attempt to keep the walks through Wingate Prairie alive,» said Margaret Marchi, a volunteer with the McHenry County Defenders and a co-author on several publications about natural gardening with Wingate.

«We've been... making an attempt to get Whole Foods out here for several years because of their reputation and because a lot of citizens have emailed or called about it,» said Mayor Dan McLaughlin.

Rackham would have been sceptical to say the least about any attempt to conflate natural history with political symbolism, writing on several occasions that he had no time for any discourse which assumed «that trees are merely part of the theatre of the landscape in which human history is played out.»

Local political sources say Schaffer was called as a witness by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance over New York United Teachers unsuccessful attempt to steer $ 100,000 to the campaign of Adrienne Esposito, who ran unsuccessfully in the Third Senate District in 2014, through the county and several town Democratic committees.

«It is an attempt by the federal government, purposeful or coincidental, to make New York and several states actually less competitive for businesses,» Cuomo said on October 3 in New York City.

After the backroom conversation failed, sources said that several members of the county organization in attendance attempted to convince Mr. Philpotts — who is recovering from surgery — to leave the meeting prematurely, without completing all the steps required to make himself the nominee.

«Personally, I arrived at the Golf hotel (Ouattara's headquarters) with my buttocks exposed, naked, and I suffered several attempts to rape me in broad daylight... and all this in the presence of French soldiers who were filming this,» she said.

The suspect is said to have hit his 52 - year - old mother, Faustina Agyeiwaa several times in the head with a pestle until she fell down, and thereafter he followed up with naked flames in attempts to burn...

While Silver has held an iron grip on the Assembly through a previous coup attempt and several scandals, Democrats said his removal became «inevitable» because of the cloud of the corruption charges.

Nana Akufo Addo, flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), says Ghanaians should expect several attempts by President Mahama to «buy their votes with goodies» ahead of the December polls.

Mulgrew said the safeguard was necessary to prevent principals from wielding «unfettered power over their employees» in light of several recent alleged attempts at unfair dismissal.

«It is an attempt by the federal government, purposeful or coincidental, to make New York and several states actually less competitive for businesses,» Cuomo said on Oct. 3 in New York City.

He said there had been several attempts over thousands of years to «recreate the dream of the Roman Empire», and added: «Very often that's been done by force.

Flaherty says Lewis is also charged with attempted murder and several assaults.

Caldwell says he went back to the Bürgermeister - Müller Museum several months ago to study the specimen again; separately, Head says he also attempted to study the fossil.

«Without ultrasound it may take several attempts to administer the blocks,» said Dr. Abdallah.

SSC transplantation has not yet been attempted in humans, but has been performed successfully in several species of animals, including monkeys, said Sadri - Ardekani.

This is several orders of magnitude larger and more detailed than any previous attempt,» says Markram.

«Because palpation is so important to surgeons, there have been several previous attempts to build instruments that can provide it,» said Valdastri.

«After several years of attempts to detect fluorescent emission from dark galaxies, our results demonstrate the potential of our method to discover and study these fascinating and previously invisible objects,» says Sebastiano Cantalupo (University of California, Santa Cruz), lead author of the study.

That said, attempting to get all the protein you need from food alone presents several challenges:

(This came after several attempts to get me to keep what he had said earlier a secret.)

In key scenes (Sahmi's meeting with the General, the montage sequence showing Houshang's attempts to raise money using repetitive framing devices, and several of Parviz's key scenes, which often function like dramatic monologues) the performances appear often to be slightly stylized and theatrical, offering, I believe, a degree of distanciation (in the Brechtian sense), somewhat in the manner of, say, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Joining forces with the tough - as - nails Nova (Cassie Scerbo) and her geeky sidekick, Lucas (Frankie Muniz), in their heavily - fortified, sharknado - destroying Winne - bago, Fin gets to Florida too late: Several sharknados have coalesced — it's a «sharkicane,» someone says, in a failed attempt at savvy coinage — that will wipe out everything and everyone.

My earliest attempts to craft said «gritty romance novel» failed on several levels.

That said, sometimes there can be reasons for continuing to pay something like a credit card, including just a plain showing of good faith, i.e., think of your last three credit card statements showing several thousand dollars in purchases with no payments, versus some demonstrated attempt to repay your debts, even if below the monthly minimum.

The man made says he made several attempts to contact animal control so he could get his dog's remains back and pay his last respects, but animal control says they have no record of the calls and the dog was incinerated before he got a chance to get the dog back.

That isn't to say that it doesn't attempt some other things to liven up this otherwise stale formula, as Enemy Front presents several scenarios where you can take a stealthier approach rather then going in guns blazing.

However, that said, there appear to be several studies coming out that are making use of similar sets of data but attempting to answer related questions.

Chris O'Neil, FMM's Director of Government Affairs said: «After several language revisions and attempted amendments, the Committee finally said, «No way.

Several local and national environmental groups interviewed by InsideClimate News said they'll attempt to sway the election in McAuliffe's favor and are currently formulating their strategies.

In response to my plea that everybody should ignore the several attempts to distract this thread by use of the «red herring» of atheists promoting their religion, your post at January 6, 2013 at 2:36 pm says I am «wrong» and addresses me with

Professor Acton: Unfortunately, several of these countries impose conditions and say you are not allowed to pass it on, so there has just been an attempt to get these answers.

Prof. Jeong Min Baik of UNIST (School of Materials Science and Engineering) said that while several attempts have been made to use UV - based photoelectrodes for hydrogen production, the new photoelectrode represents the first use of the metal - dielectric hybrid - structured film with TiO2 for oxygen production.

The government has therefore made several attempts to give patients more say in the appointment process.

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The Hollywood Reporter also said several outlets attempted to take the package off the table, but Witherspoon and others involved in the project insisted on letting everyone hear the pitch before deciding on the right home for the project.