Sentences with phrase «taken as an attempt»

He rejected assertions that the decision was taken as an attempt by the majority to waylay any potential investigation into the President's widely conduct.

I took them all outside and while milo and Lucy were playing and I was standing right there Troy was what I took as attempting to play until he mounted Milo and attempted to penetrate him I was horrified and literally standing within 2 feet of the three of them.

As a whole, the show could be taken as an attempt to update the conversation on art and simulation.

Unfortunately, the Honor 5C will launch in Europe without a fingerprint sensor — a sacrifice likely taken as an attempt to hit the phone's low price point.

Not exact matches

It is scaling down its holdings in Brazil as it takes a new tack in India, attempting to gain a majority position in the online retailer Flipkart.

Instead of downplaying her femininity in an attempt to be taken more seriously as the CEO of a women's sexual health company, Whitehead did the opposite.

The summer started with a reasonable (if clumsy) attempt by the government to stop incorporated individuals from taking advantage of the lower small - business tax rate, and ended with people such as Arlene Dickinson, the investor and Dragon's Den star, talking about an assault on entrepreneurship.

Whether it's the barista frothing my cappuccino as I impatiently embark on my next transcontinental flight or the construction workers blocking the street while cars pile up and they, doughnuts in hand, mosey along attempting to clear the blockage du jour, people seem to be flat - out taking their blasted time.

That debate takes place internally at the central bank, where contrasting views are regularly articulated by members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) as our Federal Reserve (Fed) policymakers attempt to steer monetary policy with regard to interest rates.

Wang said a number of steps must be taken to attempt correction of the miss, including reviewing if pollsters adequately captured hard - to - poll demographics — such as blue - collar white voters — and as beginning to understand how to capture the leanings of undecided voters.

It might also be one last attempt to distance herself from the antisemitism and racism associated with her party and her father, Jean - Marie Le Pen — an image she has worked tirelessly to erase since taking over from him as party leader in 2011.

Instead of just taking «no» as an answer, they will attempt a different approach by using their creativity and imagination.

The U.K.'s challenges are somewhat different from Canada's: as a result of the Conservative Party's austerity campaign, the U.K.'s economy has suffered more than Canada's, which has taken more of a Keynesian approach; and the City, as London's financial hub is known, has had a reputation for a much looser approach to regulation than that found in either Canada or the U.S. Tal says the U.K.'s finance sector has to change and he expects Carney will attempt to move it in the direction of greater regulation.

The Nordstrom family's attempt to take the retailer private has stalled as it deals with a tough financing landscape.

But perhaps the more important battle will take place at the bottom of the standings, as teams jockey for position in an attempt to win lottery balls.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 9 - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is kicking off an effort to get U.S. small businesses to spend more on advertising as the image of the social media network's ads have taken a hit for their role in alleged Russian attempts to sway U.S. voters.

Well, if you held Gaspard's rope, he took it as a personal insult and responded by attempting to push you out of the way by sticking his nose in your behind.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has shown an ounce more willingness to take sides in his attempts to combat racist and sexist harassment on his service, recently conducting a purge of accounts associated with the so - called alt - right movement — a move critics described as sorely overdue.

As the company has taken more and more funding, Zechory and Lehman have attempted to court a wider audience.

Some of those issues are driven by a trend for drivers to take maximum - and unhelpful - advantage of the inducements offered by Uber as it attempts to gain a foothold.

The chain was able to keep refinancing its debt for years, but attempts to take Toys «R» Us public fizzled and its stature as market leader kept eroding.

The most interesting chapters of The Two - Second Advantage deal with attempts to take that human predictive ability and to blend it with real - time computing — as the authors have it, to design and build predictive systems that put «Gretzky's brain in a box.»

But take it as a learning experience and attempt to do better in the future.

Identity theft has taken on a new dimension over the past couple of years as hackers increasingly target big retail in their attempts to steal consumers» financial information.

However, instead of attempting to be a jack - of - all - trades, you should focus on a specific area, such as weddings or capturing landscapes or taking pictures of models for a clothing catalog.

Although the release doesn't mention it, while Tribune was becoming tronc, it was also taking a vote on a new slate of directors — a vote that Gannett attempted to influence by trying to convince shareholders to withhold their support, as a show of non-confidence.

Long before the Hogan trial took center stage, Gawker Media invested millions (Denton won't say how much exactly) in building a commenting and reader - blogging system it called Kinja, which Denton described as nothing less than an attempt to turn the publishing world on its head — to put readers on the same level with journalists and publishers.

Luxury brands» take on streetwear, in an attempt to capture the young market, was cited as particularly successful, with T - shirts, sneakers and jackets proving popular.

SAN FRANCISCO — In Uber's continuing attempt to repair its reputation over a series of scandals stemming from its bad - boy culture, its co-founder Travis Kalanick said he would take a leave of absence as chief executive.

It typically didn't take a big push as I always had a high drive to succeed at anything I attempted.

As the U.S. takes aim at Canada's dairy sector as it attempts to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, the nation's farmers and processors are forging ahead with some of their biggest expansions and investments in more than a decadAs the U.S. takes aim at Canada's dairy sector as it attempts to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, the nation's farmers and processors are forging ahead with some of their biggest expansions and investments in more than a decadas it attempts to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, the nation's farmers and processors are forging ahead with some of their biggest expansions and investments in more than a decade.

We think more opportunity may exist abroad as banks in some regions attempt to clarify their business models, a process that took place in the United States more than five years ago.

While he took great pains to point out that it's still months away from his July start date and by that time «the UK economy might be in an entirely different place,» he did attempt to clarify his position on specific points such as inflation (he supports a continued course of «flexible regulation») and further stimulus (he's for it, should the British economy need it).

As everyone expected, scammers are attempting to cash in on the mass hysteria currently surrounding the WannaCry ransomware outbreak, a mass - infection took place over the weekend of May 12 and 14, and whose effects we still feel today.

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Soon the Fed will be forced to continue to raise interest rates in an attempt to save the dollar and stop inflation from exploding; The first causality will be to exacerbate the crash of the Real Estate market; then comes the imploding of the stock and bond markets, followed closely by the credit markets as the take - over and privatizing craze comes to an abrupt end.

It is hard to see Mr. Prentice's term - limit pledge as anything but an attempt to distract Albertans from lacklustre leadership contest and the ongoing government spending and airplane scandals (and the PC government's unwillingness to take responsibility for its actions).

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?

«It is outrageous that you would portray my wife and me as attempting to take advantage of the government,» Shulkin wrote.

Now, if market participants were to shift to a passive approach in the practice of asset allocation more broadly — that is, if they were to resolve to hold cash, fixed income, and equity from around the globe in relative proportion to the total supplies outstanding — then we would expect to see a similarly positive impact on the market's absolute pricing mechanism, particularly as unskilled participants choose to take passive approaches with respect to those asset classes in lieu of attempts to «time» them.

French President Emmanuel Macron is preparing to take on France's powerful unions as he attempts to overhaul the country's labor code.

Accordingly, we can expect bitcoin price to continue rising towards the $ 3,800 price level within the upcoming week, yet as we mentioned earlier, a downwards price correction attempt can take over for a while, as speculators and traders close their long positions to collect their profits.

It seems as if since the religious zealots God is unable to call down lightning as they think he should when they feel we have blasphemed him, the zealots enjoy taking matters into their own hands and attempt to bully and persecute and even murder atheists on their God's behalf.

Amnesty, even in its weakest forms of non-enforcement of the law and deferred action, without corresponding action to tighten the border and control unlawful immigration, leads directly to the current human crisis as thousands of desperate children (and adults) attempt to enter the United States on the promise that the administration will take no action against them.

As any student of Comparative Mythology knows, the Garden myth in Genesis was taken from the Sumerian Chaos myths, and was a HUMAN attempt to explain «disorder».

After winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her wild - eyed turn as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted, she attempted a few other serious acting roles but only seemed to find blockbuster success when she took on the lead role in the feature - film adaptation of the video game Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

In their new comedy Amy Damnation, a woman attempts to track down the demon who possessed her as a child — prior to an exorcism — in an effort to no longer be a people - pleaser who's always taken advantage of.

St. Anselm, for instance, puts in his Proslogion what a typically modern reading takes as the «ontological argument»: an attempt to prove, by examining the meaning of the word «God,» the existence of a useful transcendental guarantor of thought, whose existence is itself guaranteed by thought.

This article is simply breath - taking in its dishonesty, as a blatant attempt to manipulate public perception of a man who, if he has any faith at all, it is Islam.