"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In other words, either Peter Laxter or Charles Ashton knew that an insidious attempt at murder was going to be made by someone.
- Opponents say it is an insidious attempt to criminalize political free speech.
- Yet there is plenty of convincing recent evidence of insidious attempts to deny some Americans equal access to the voting booth.
- It's an insidious attempt to move the discussion to ground which, for the paper, is relatively safe - i.e. the old news or comment conundrum.
- Americans see an air collision, or the jockeying among competing cities to get the Olympics; the Chinese see another insidious attempt by foreign powers to weaken China and hold it back.
- According to the Obama administration, it is "an insidious attempt to dishonestly smear the president."
- "We reject the Mayor's insidious attempts to create smokescreens," Mr. Norman said.
- In 2004, in denial of the rebels' separatist spirit, Thaksin described the insurgency as part of an insidious attempt to undermine the country's tourism industry.
- Not simply the status quo.... but a somewhat insidious attempt to coerce authors to avoid any politically sensitive subject.
- Up to and including my most vigorous and most insidious attempts at seduction.
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