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He remained the loyal soldier in a continuing attempt to prove his worth, while seeking Eisenhower's trust and confidence through persistent public demonstrations of his subordinate position.
It's also easy to criticize Republicans' continuing love of abstinence-only sex education and opposition to gay rights as a continuing attempt to erase queer people today.
Seth Mydans (NYT) INDONESIA: SUHARTO QUIZZED -- Prosecutors questioned former President Suharto in a continuing attempt to build a case against him for corruption and abuse of power.
The arrest came as a shock to Mr. Polanski and those who have worked closely with him both on movies and in a continuing attempt to lift the outstanding arrest warrant against him.
The move will bring together a wide coalition of activists opposed to the government's cuts and organisers say it is part of a continuing attempt to build links between local anti-cut groups and trade unions.
Another is to construe the writer's voluminous output as an act of denial, a continuing attempt to stave off the realization that, as one of his characters puts it, "the world was a cheap and shoddy sham, a bad cover for something deeper and weirder and infinitely more strange".
From Bashir's point of view, his successful Houdini act marks a breakthrough in his continuing attempt to end Sudan's diplomatic isolation.
The wealthy foreign owners of Pringle of Scotland have pumped another £18m into the loss-making brand's continuing attempt to become a Burberry-style luxury label.
The attack on Judge Rosenbaum is not only a sign of the right's continuing attempt to hijack the federal judiciary but also trespasses on the constitutional separation of powers.
The man who helped pull off the biggest debt restructuring in world history in the continuing attempt to keep a Greek bankruptcy at bay speaks with all the caution of the constitutional law professor he was before he went into politics.
"What is unfortunate here is the continuing attempt to politicize an issue, in this case through nominees that themselves had nothing to do with Benghazi, and to do so in a way that only does harm to our national security interests," Carney said.
