"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Lately, the Kremlin has made increasingly heavy-handed attempts to rein in Russian news organizations.
- Several critics dismissed the show as a heavy-handed attempt to concoct a generational statement.
- These heavy-handed attempts to pry concessions from the U.S. and its allies are troubling in three respects.
- But this anti-Internet alarmism is a heavy-handed attempt to distract attention from the really dangerous medium: paper.
- Papadopoulos' heavy-handed attempt at liberalisation did not find favour among many in Greece.
- A heavy-handed attempt at humor.
- After all, conservation is the goal of Con Edison's free thermostat giveaway, an attempt somewhat less heavy-handed than at other utilities.
- His heavy-handed attempts to crush the Huks led to widespread peasant disaffection.
- Chevron said this reflected economic realities, but some dealers said it was a heavy-handed attempt to silence them.
- We hope that we will be able to block any heavy-handed attempt to deprive people of the products they know and continue to need.
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