Sentences with phrase «with weak attempts»

It lacks the contemporary impact, of course — all the more so now in 2012, when basic - cable features a weekly zombie series complete with weak attempts at the kind of social relevance Romero achieved without the same labour - intensiveness.

It is filled with weak attempts at sketch comedy, resulting in a few funny moments here and there, but not enough.

Not exact matches

By now, most people are likely aware of the government's attempts to use the All Writs Act from 1789 as a tool to force Apple write new software with weaker security so that feds could unlock an iPhone 5c they had in custody.

The company has been struggling with weak demand for its fitness trackers, and its first attempt at a proper smartwatch fell flat.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

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.

try looking up the definition, be honest with yourself and everyone else — and stop attempting to twist things just to satisfy your weak - ass, retarded position.

It was basically a dismal performance by the Gunners against a weak Liverpool side who managed a massive 27 attempts on our goal, while we scored with our first two attempts on target.

Even the attempt to smother the issue with a weak compromise that like will still leave the right inflamed when players are still talking about racism and injustice.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

I think this is the real point; too often we see weak boards attempting to appease mob rule... Levy has more nous than that, but with Portsmouth turning us over in the cup an fourth place slipping away, I hope he holds his nerve.

Arsene Wenger faces a difficult choice ahead of Tuesday night: Either play a full team and risk injury to attempt the impossible, or bow out quietly with a weaker team, accepting that fourth place is a more important goal than Champion's League progress.

It just didn't work out with my first child; I gave up after 3 weeks of tearful attempts and having an C section really just made me quite weak.

• Baby Milk Action's campaign of solidarity with partners in the Philippines, where Nestlé is leading the industry attempt to replace strong regulations successfully defended in 2007 with its own weak law.

Nestlé is leading an industry attempt to replace the Philippines regulations with its own weak law, which will mean (amongst other things) that the clear warnings will go.

Along with «a row has blown up» or «sources are saying», this attempt to push self - originated personal agenda topics couched in such blatant and weak «one degree of separation» allusions to «others» who seem to be entirely in the author's own mind is dire.

«Team Schneiderman is clearly in chaos and disarray with the knowledge that even with a 5 - 1 voter registration advantage, a financial advantage... and their disgusting attempts to scare women and minority communities with weak and baseless attacks — they still can't stop the tidal wave of momentum for District Attorney Donovan,» the release continued.

Child abuse exposures were associated with increased odds of suicidal ideation, suicidal plans and suicide attempts in the general population and in the Canadian Armed Forces, although many of the associations were weaker in military personnel compared with civilians, the study results indicate.

Many who attempt heavy Front Squats with kettlebells are surprised to find that their upper back and abs are highlighted as their weak points.

Also As I mentioned above this is my 4th attempt, I always hear that every one gets so energetic and vibrant on this diet but the last 3 times I tried every time is the same I lose a considerable amount of muscle get weak and after a few weeks the hunger kicks in and because I could not stop eating I end up with a lot of fat.

The fact that Jimmy's a laid - off construction worker and Clyde a veteran with a conspicuous prosthetic hand gives the film an air of social relevance, and while Soderbergh seems enthusiastic about the idea of his characters banding together to take back from a society that's made them collateral damage, the attempts to draw any sense of sociopolitical import are the film's weakest spots.

Other than No Strings Attached and Just Go With It, it's been one weak attempt after the next this year.

The bulk of the picture's pathetic attempts at humor revolve around contrasting buff Bob's bravery with weak - kneed Calvin's cowardice.

The abundance of shirtless hunks, along with Anderson's knack for keeping M'lady cleavage in the frame whenever possible rank as weak attempts to keep attention from waning.

His friends include recently separated Baptiste (Franck Dubosc) and Olivia (Florence Foresti) and an assemblage of other undeveloped characters dealing with other issues that comes across as an attempt at adult issues bingo rather than an incisive vivisection of middle age — divorce, professional / financial strain, intimacy, children — that can be the strongest and weakest parts of the film.

Back to Boss, where things get more interesting (in between the various hauntings) as Mayor Kane attempts to find redemption on a number of fronts: at home, where his wife (the terrific Connie Nielsen) and estranged daughter Emma (Hannah Ware, a pallid weak link) can barely stand to share a dinner table with him; and more compellingly, with the city at large, where his efforts at urban redevelopment of a run - down housing project seem unusually selfless — he certainly impresses the alluring and earnest political operative (Sanaa Lathan) whom he lures into his inner circle.

His weak attempt to arouse her with a rape fantasy quickly sours, and in the midst of a fight, he falls down dead.

The 1985 formula attempted to make up for gaps in funding for poorer areas with a weaker local tax base and also to compensate districts based on their actual costs.

The new Kindle Fire HD devices attempt to address those weak points with slimmed down designs, improved displays, and more powerful processors.

This is Reign of Cthulhu's frankly slightly weak attempt to mimic how important the fragility of the human mind is within Lovecraft's work, the idea being that dealing with the many horrors takes its toll on the brains of mere mortals, driving them utterly insane.

Sure, there are dark moments, in fact the game briefly touches upon a young B.J.'s relationship with his racist dick of a father who believed B.J. to be too soft and weak — largely due to his Jewish wife whom he married purely for business connections — something he attempted to rectify by restraining B.J., putting a shotgun in his hands and telling him to shoot the family dog.

The enemy AI improves noticeably, with enemies not only doing more damage to the player but also making more attempts to take cover from grenades, outflank players and in some cases even try to cover their weak spots so that you can't land one hit kills.

I have my original GameCube copie (s) from that ill - fated year of Nintendo's weak and strange E3, where they showed off asymmetric interconnectivity with the Game Boy Advance in desperation to drive more $ ales by attempts at innovatingly making them work together... that and all those CABLE$!!

Fixed an issue preventing damage from being dealt to a Griller hit with a Sting Ray attempting to hit its weak point by shooting through it.

Despite the humor aspect of trying to keep the robot from destroying everybody, Monster Seeking Monster does come off as the weakest game in Jackbox Party Pack 4, but that could be an effect of attempting to play the game with a group of teenage girls.

If only the weak attempts at Metroidvania style progress wasn't held back by so much involuntary backtracking and no real incentive to ever want to explore fresh areas with any new tools one picks up.

The fact that a plurality of the references are to CA posts with no attempt made to address the legitimate criticisms leveled at Stevie Mac's broadsides just makes the book weaker.

All the weak attempts to disprove it, such as a thought experiment with a wire outside a cylinder of gas, are flawed, simply because they neglect the temperature gradient in the wire itself, or other similar oversights.

The attempts by McI and the like to justify this sort of thing with very weak examples of «Team» doing the like are just silly.

In my experience, the best way of establishing your credibility with technical people is not by attempting to bully or one - up them, but by focusing with laser - sharp focus on the technical issues and potential weak points of the argument.

In particular, we are fighting a new U.S. - backed attempt to replace the existing binding targets for emissions reductions with a weak, ineffective system of pledges.

Numerous attempts to confirm these correlations based on different climate models have shown that it is only possible if either the applied perturbations of direct solar radiative forcing are large (consistent with a direct solar radiative forcing from the present to Maunder minimum ΔFP − M ~ 0.6 − 0.8 W / m2) or if the amplification of a weak direct solar forcing is substantial.

Heat recovery systems, recirculate interior air mixed with fresh outdoor air, to lower costs of having to heat all fresh outdoor air, while exhausting old air through building ventilation.Insulated sliding shutter doors is simply an attempt to increase the R - Value of the weak spots (doors and windows) either when you're not at home, or when you're going to sleep and those windows serve only to leak heat out.Geothermal heating / cooling depends on your geography.

Besides the generic method consisting to compare the model vs model runs (which would consist to compare error to error if the models were inadequate) there is a weak attempt at comparing runs with reality.

Plaintiff allegedly was further retaliated against when Mercado assigned him the oldest and weakest narcotics cases, threatened him with disciplinary action, and attempted to sabotage his trial work.

This means that you'll need to reach 6 - star missions before even attempting to get the horn, as trying beforehand with a weaker version of the monster won't produce the resource you want.

Conditional associations of mental disorders with attempts among ideators, controlling for plans, are somewhat weaker and less consistent than with plans (9 disorders have ORs greater than 1.0 [3 of them significant], but with the OR for alcohol abuse significantly less than 1.0).