Sentence examples for a crude effort from inspiring English sources
The trustees call Justice Golia's hint a crude effort to intimidate them.
Now, remember... that the election in Taiwan is just a short time away and some analysts said well, maybe this was a crude effort by Beijing to try to influence that election.
Rebels said that before they were provided with the missiles, months ago, they had already been painted, either by the seller, shipper or middlemen, in a crude effort to make tracing the missiles more difficult.
Was this anything more than a crude effort to exploit the hand-me-down image of a woman trapped behind a burqa grille to justify a controversial military mission?
A crude effort by anti-abortion groups and their supporters in Congress to associate abortion with an increased risk of breast cancer can now be stopped in its tracks.
By pointing accusatory fingers at other individuals and institutions involved in the case she also gave the impression that she was making a crude effort to interfere in what should be exclusively legal matters - what someone later described as "the judicialisation of politics in Argentina".
Pakistanis see the aid as a crude attempt to buy friendship and an effort to alleviate antipathy toward United States drone attacks against militants in the tribal areas.
As part of a particularly crude effort to remove army officers who supported democratic rule, the CIA organised to kidnap Rene Schneider, a Chilean army general.
"This is an obvious and crude effort to spackle together a quick political fix, but it lacks specifics, lacks funding and he lacks credibility," Mr. Bounds said.
The "Paranormal Activity" concept spawns yet another comic variation (after "A Haunted House" and "Scary Movie V") with "Ghost Team One," a rude and somewhat crude effort in which typewriter-font intertitles, a mobile camera and staccato surveillance video intersect with a stream of slacker potty talk.
The leak of an audit of the Attawapiskat reserve that showed questionable financial practices may have been a crude government effort to discredit Ms Spence.
