Sentences with phrase «than an honest attempt»

Kraken's CEO pointed out the short turnaround time requested by the Attorney General's office, and the public nature of the request, making it clear that the Attorney General's request is more of a public relations campaign directed towards cryptocurrency exchanges rather than an honest attempt at getting information about the companies» operations.

The process sounds more like a jailhouse lawyer script than an honest attempt to get at the truth.

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And with those honest but fearful souls whose faith is so weak that it amounts to little more than an intellectual conformity to a passive attitude of assent to religions of authority, the Father is ever alert to honor and foster even all such feeble attempts to reach out for him.

When it comes to people who have been historically mistreated, abused, and sinned against, any attempt at whole relationship that skips this step of honest understanding of history and heartfelt confession will be little more than assimilation.

By the end of a long day of critique, her «protective cloak» was at best in tatters, and perhaps that's the ultimate fate of most attempts for a media figure to live aggressively as a character rather than an honest person.

Trying to square this circle, the strategy calls for house price stability — which is at least more honest than the last government's attempts to «reduce long term unaffordability», a mangling of plain English designed purely to avoid reference to prices.

Never mind that this guy is at least attempting to be honest... much more than could be said for Spitzer.

First, it is important to develop authentic, honest communications strategies that meet intended audiences where they are rather than attempting to socially engineer emotional appeals; the latter approach is not only pragmatically and theoretically problematic in the ways described above, but also suffers from being ethically questionable.

They are meaningless categories, and the defence that an attempt to point out that they are meaningless categories is semantic play is dishonest, since it ultimately depends on nothing more than Curtis's claim that the authors are honest.

IMO, your attempt to isolate secular variance by removing 60 yr pseudo-cycle noise is far more honest (and IMO accurate) than to leave it in and claim that the trend from mid-70's onward is «mostly» due to anthro CO2.

Unfortunately, rather than be honest and discuss his inability to fund the litigation as a result of the credit card companies» new policy, Complainant began manufacturing grievances in an attempt to gain leverage over Mr. Warner and obtain as much in free legal services as possible before representing himself pro per...

These cases can lead to significant jury awards and unfortunately, some lawyers will be less than honest in an attempt to get your business.