"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He called their calls to shut down Indian Point permanently "a self-serving attempt to take advantage of Sept. 11 by manipulating the fears of Westchester residents."
- It has shamelessly made false allegations against Fuji Film in a self-serving attempt to exploit growing tensions between the U.S. and Japan on trade issues.
- Elevating races to Grade I status is a rather self-serving attempt by the breeders to make more horses look better than they really are.
- Presidential memoirs are typically self-serving attempts to recast history, settle scores and pose for posterity.
- Like his earlier memoir, it is often a self-serving attempt to continue his ongoing feud with the late president Nguyễn Văn Thiệu.
- Notwithstanding this gesture, some local residents have tried to exploit the church in self-serving attempts to have the trail closed.
- They call for Iraq's immediate and unconditional withdrawal, the restoration of Kuwait's legitimate Government, and categorically reject Iraq's cynical and self-serving attempt to annex Kuwait.
- Or are the editors' pious protestations of public interest just a prurient self-serving attempt to boost circulation?
- Mr. Salinas conceded that he had very little credibility left among Mexicans and that many might regard the book as a self-serving attempt to rehabilitate his reputation.
- The company in charge engaged in what some American officials saw as a self-serving attempt to limit communications with the government until all the money was gone.
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