Sentences with phrase «which at least attempted»

Compare all of this to Black Ops II which at least attempted, in an admittedly over-the-top-manner, to address the idea of America having a powerful drone army and present us with a villain whose motivations and reasoning actually made sense.

Not exact matches

By parallel, if you forbid a company from competing for government contracts for 10 years, those are 10 years during which they will engage in precisely zero instances of attempted bribery or other acts of corruption, at least with regard to bribery or corruption of Canadian officials.

Britain, which understandably objects to having its sovereignty violated for an assassination attempt with a flashy Soviet - era nerve agent, would appear to be in good company this week: at least 24 nations expelled Russian diplomats Monday in a show of solidarity against the Kremlin's likely poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yuliya in Salisbury earlier this month.

Nevertheless, we are not yet listing either ETF as an «official» trade setup because we first prefer to see at least a bit of broad market stabilization, which would reduce the odds of a false breakout if these ETFs attempt to move to new «swing highs.»

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.

And while at least one attempt (which may or may not be called Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice) was just the worst.

And until Calvinism does away with it's inherent Nestorianism (which reemerged recently when a group of Calvinists attempted to redefine the Trinity in order to make it compatible with their new doctrine of «complementarianism», you look pretty hypocritical saying that Catholic theology is «at least in parts heretical».

If we see Hegel's philosophy, at least in part, as an attempt to rethink the Aristotelian metaphysics in the light of the Kantian «Copernican Revolution,» the way in which the Kantian development enabled Hegel to resolve the Aristotelian difficulties emerges.

What the likes of Teilhard and Rahner attempted to «baptise» were philosophies which constituted at least in part a conscious attempt to provide an alternative to existing Catholic teaching.

Torrance goes on: «This is an attempt to think together the ancient and modern approaches to problems which, if they are not the same (and they are not), at least cross over in interesting ways.»

Obviously we can not undo the process of «civilization» which has made us what we are, but at least we can make some attempt to see how it disarms and deludes us.

It is now apparent that this effort was, at least in part, the attempt of a culture whose religious dimensions were fading to find some other area in which the religious passions could be exercised.

This is not a subjective test attempting to measure the «true» value of the law to benefited individuals; rather, it's a more objective test (at least in theory) which simply attempts to measure the number and scope of allowed exemptions from the law.

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

Promoting a brittle presentmindedness, the idea of progress weakens «the inclination to make intelligent provision for the future, and nostalgia, its ideological twin, undermines the ability to make intelligent use of the past» Distinguishing carefully between nostalgia and an appropriately critical historic memory, Lasch laments the ways in which — driven by progress, even driven a bit mad by it — we can do no better than issue a «communitarian counterpoint» to attempt to right the balance and to retain, at least here and there, smidgens of civic virtue.

Hence, this attempt at making an oven - fried version, which will not make it to any healthy dish list, but at least satisfies one's annual craving for fried chicken without a whole lot of guilt.

The Tigers will have a harder time taming Kansas's offense, which ranks fifth in Pomeroy's adjusted efficiency and includes three players who have taken 180 or more three - point attempts and made at least 40 % of them.

It was his sixth straight game in which he had 20 + points while making at least 50 percent of his field - goal attempts.

We need at least a point to keep our hopes alive and even if we somehow get all three, Olympiacos will most likely win and we'll need a victory in Greece which we haven't gotten in a few attempts (although mostly playing our second squad).

For Gascoigne's free - kick, Arsenal at least had a flimsy 2 +1 - man wall which stood about 15 yards away and it was in footballing terms «dead centre» and so the disguise of a cross was eliminated but the audacity of attempting to score from so far out was the element of surprise.

However, if none of these clubs can offer him first team football — which is never a guarantee with young goalkeepers, especially English ones — then he might be better off giving Sunderland at least another season as they attempt to bounce back up.

There could be factors that make breastfeeding better or worse for an individual baby and factors that make formula better or worse for a particular baby, ranging from extreme prematurity (breastmilk's benefit is larger due to protection against NEC, this is probably the only situation in which I would attempt to at least pump breastmilk) to the mother being unable to cope and care for her child without a medication that is bad for breastfeeding (formula is much healthier for that child).

If breastfeeding attempts are infrequent or weak, the possibilities include kangaroo care, maintaining nearness to the infant, hearing and responding emotionally to baby's cries, having the infant attempt to suck or at least nuzzle and regularly attempting to manually express or pump milk (which is beneficial even though only drops may come the first days).

The authors undertook the ambitious projects of writing a cookbook which would be attractive or at least adaptable for any diet, and succeeds at that attempt.

Ron Paul's appearance on Meet The Press last Sunday was immensely revealing for many reasons, not the least of which was his success (in the words of The Smirking Chimp) at «parrying each of Tim Russert's attempts to find a gotcha moment with honesty and conviction — two things Russert was obviously unpracticed in dealing with.»

THAT»S how I ended up diving into John Toland's 1000 - page history of the Pacific War from the Japanese point of view (in paperback, thank god) while on the bus on a FIFTH - GRADE field trip... starting with 200 - odd pages of 1930s Japanese nationalist politics, which at least was full of plots, assassinations, coup attempts, ritual suicides, and other exciting stuff.

So, for any State, California or otherwise, to leave, would require either new laws that would require at least majority support from the remaining States, or a military operation to try and assert their independence, which would most likely be a bloodbath for the State attempting to do so.

Theresa May is expected to approve the creation of about 10 Conservative peers and at least one for the Democratic Unionist party, perhaps as early as Friday, in an attempt to improve her position in the House of Lords, which has voted 15 times against her government over Brexit.

Ron Paul's appearance on Meet The Press last Sunday was immensely revealing for many reasons, not the least of which was his success (in the words of The Smirking Chimp) at «parrying each of Tim Russert's attempts to find a gotcha moment with honesty and conviction — two...

As well as the rather crass attention - seeking, I was mocking the attempt to provide an «evidence base» with «at least one» anecdote from a country which everybody knows has liberal gun laws and a much higher murder rate.

I asked Scharff is she thought the governor's WEP push was a not - so - subtle attempt to undermine the WFP, with which he has had a contentious relationship since at least 2010.

Since 2013, the acts of at least five Erie County Correctional Facility inmates met the state's definition for attempted suicide, which the commission considers a serious incident requiring a report to Albany.

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.

Recent evidence suggests that this impression, which I received on a recent visit in a vain attempt to view the Northern Lights, was a misleading one at least as far as some of the Icelandic elite are concerned.

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.

The new proposal, which Yuste believes would cost at least $ 50 million per year, in addition to existing BRAIN funds, to do well, is an attempt to remedy what the group sees as an important omission by BRAIN leadership.

You're correct in one of your comparisons, at least, which is that there's no difference between what Heartland does and the attempts to get creationism taught in public schools.

Days at the retreat are spent sitting inside a giant meditation hall, totally barren except for the ground, which is scattered with pillows, blankets, and meditation stools — desperate attempts by students to find at least minimal comfort during the long days of meditation spent sitting on the floor.

In addition, an attempt would be made to reach the leucine threshold with each meal, which in practical terms would be to consume at least 30 — 40 g high - quality protein per meal.

It is also pleasing to see that in an age in which the romantic comedy is such an unfashionable genre in the cinema that filmmakers are, at least, attempting to go back to basics and call to mind a style of filmmaking in the screwball comedy that is all too rarely visible in the modern era.

If one is going to make a movie that glorifies the aforementioned activities — which Project X is clearly attempting to do with director Nima Nourizadeh's implementation of a found - footage conceit to give the movie a «you are there» feel and screenwriters Matt Drake and Michael Bacall's complete and total whitewashing of whatever consequences might arise from a party that results in what is essentially a war zone in a sleepy subdivision of Pasadena, California — it should at least give a sense that the entire affair is fun.

Though, with all that talk of difficulty, Guilty Gear does at least attempt to cater for more inexperienced players, with the simplified Stylish input type — which automatically blocks, and vastly simplifies inputs for special moves.

It's a conflict most evident in the movie's awkward and slightly unsatisfying coda, which attempts to shoehorn in at least one message — about temperance and tolerance and friendship and adventure — too many.

Page's subplot is the most tender, and a scene in which McNairy attempts to console her without encouraging her (which may have been at least partially improvised) achieves a level of emotional authenticity that the rest of Touchy Feely sorely lacks.

Even the trailers, as ambiguous as they were attempting to be, still give away a handful of the film's more potently silly surprises, not the least of which is the beginning of the X-Force team Deadpool will at some point find himself a part of.

Franco captures that while Wiseau's mouth, which perpetually feels like it's full of peanut butter and / or cotton - mouth - inducing pills may be joylessly droning, «Ha ha ha», the eyes betray that he has no idea what he's supposed to find amusing, but apparently «laughing» is a common trait of these «humans» so as long as he's at least attempting to pass among their ranks, he might as well give it a shot.

The movie, which defies conventional thinking about war - movie endings, largely consists of conversation, not conflict (at least not in a military sense), as Juba alternately taunts, attempts to school and acts as a confessor to Isaac, who, as one would expect of these things, tries to use his head to outwit his enemy and survive.

Konami attempts to answer that — at least from a graphical perspective — in a visual comparison of all five platforms on which the game will appear: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

At least with this new home video release, there is a short story called The Legend of Mordu which attempt to better explain the bear predicament.

They also gave up the BEST program in exchange for something I can't recall, too which at least gave «failing» teachers options for assistance and additional attempts to improve.