"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Is it a sneaky attempt by France and Germany to hit back at the City of London and its dominant position as a global financial centre?
- This sneaky attempt to sow legislative chaos and run out the clock is another abuse of power by the Speaker.
- This site from the University of California, San Francisco, offers the paper trail on sneaky attempts by the tobacco industry to recruit more people into the smoking fold.
- Losing three straight votes was a bad enough result for Freud in its own right, but has been very much compounded by his seeming sneaky procedural attempt to get it reversed after many of their lordships had taken to their beds.
- Could this be a sneaky attempt to lure unsuspecting moviegoers into Scientology?
- Of course, Mark was prepared for conflict with his uncle sooner or later, possibly even a sneaky attempt to go dybbuk at his expense.
- Turk had profited by the exchange between Nick and The Shadow to pull a sneaky attempt at ambush.
- Opponents like Representative Bill Clay, a Missouri Democrat, suggested, bizarrely, that the study was a sneaky attempt to find potential candidates who might topple incumbents.
- Considering the underhanded tricks to block Judge Thomas's elevation to the Supreme Court and the sneaky attempts to question Professor Hill's sanity, this won't be easy, but it is only part of the larger problem.
- Brad Johnson, the head of the New York State office in Washington, called Lilco's maneuver "a cheap, sneaky attempt" that was intended to "undermine the Governor's efforts to protect the ratepayers of Long Island."
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