Republicans here dismissed the vote as a cynical effort aimed solely at the next election.

However sincere or cynical these efforts are, they are surely misguided.

But many people, particularly the young, regard such campaigns as cynical efforts to avoid meaningful changes - like political reform.

I felt sometimes like my identity was being drained from me and replaced with a cynical effort to please.

Opposition politicians sought to paint the Murayama speech as a cynical effort to woo public support.

Is it trash sport, as King suggests, a cynical effort to milk the home folks for a few bucks?

The sordid, cynical effort to pass regulatory "reform" is all about money.

Were these speeches just cynical efforts to inoculate himself from the charge that he's a conventional Massachusetts liberal?

But it does not appear this was a cynical effort by ABC.

Republicans generally view the Rangel plan as a cynical effort to rouse antiwar sentiment.