Sentence examples for a foolish attempt from inspiring English sources

Mr Justice Fulford told Bowes: "You have made available to the press confidential information concerning children".Your explanation is that it was a foolish attempt by you to be in some part associated with notorious or high-profile cases".

A Foreign Office spokesman said the memo had been a foolish attempt to joke about the church's troubles, and had not been seen by any high-ranking Foreign Office officials before it went out to other departments.

In "The Decay of Lying", he had mocked the writer Charles Reade for "a foolish attempt to be modern, to draw public opinion to the state of our convict prisons".

"There is such a foolish attempt at the moment.

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They basically sound like if BBQ sauce wrote a song and it perfectly suits the NDP's juke to the left and working-class concerns after a foolish attempt to out Liberal the Liberals in the last election.

Sonja Van Tichelen, the EU regional director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, said: "The EU proposal is a misguided and foolish attempt to save face.

More importantly, The Lonely Island is the vanguard of a humour that is so unabashedly ridiculous and self-deprecating that you are at a loss of words when you make the foolish attempt to critique it.

"Effective immediately," he wrote in The Daily Beast, "in light of your latest foolish attempt at seeming important, we will ignore you and your hot air for the foreseeable future — or, at the very least, until after the Nov. 6 election".

At the root of this is Gove's sadly politicised Department for Education and its foolish attempt to bring my occasional classes to Stoke-on-Trent schools into the issue of Labour's commitment to ensure the best qualified teachers in the world.

For their crimes (and Homer's foolish attempt at defending himself in court), the family is put into forced labor.