Sentence examples for an evident attempt from inspiring English sources

Russian officials, as the conference's hosts, met twice with the head of the Iranian delegation on Tuesday, in an evident attempt to keep the process from derailing.

The statement made by the Secret Army Organization leader, on trial for his life, was an evident attempt to implicate members of the government in his decision to join the OAS.

It amounted to an evident attempt to rally the entire Islamic world against the United States -- an outcome that the Bush administration and its allies have sought to avoid by saying their argument is with terrorists, not with Islam, and by reaching out to Arab states.

Law enforcement officials said they openly trailed Matthew after he left the police station, and he drove away from them at what Longo described as an "alarming" speed in an evident attempt to evade them.

And the voice belongs to none other than the New York Times, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning editorialist, Nicholas Kristof, has decided to share this "inconvenient truth" with his liberal colleagues in an evident attempt to get the GVP community to be more realistic and honest in its approach to guns.

Another wrote: The Morning Advertiser thought that "There is an evident attempt to copy the creations of a foreign composer who is so popular at the present time, and who has written some charming music for the gods and goddesses en bouffes".

Like many of the painters and composers during these years (notably Pablo Picasso and Igor Stravinsky), Matisse relaxed into a modernized sort of classicism and into a rather evident attempt to please an art public that was a bit tired of attempts to shock it.

So while they are often set with "a Caribbean coastline and an Andean hinterland... [the settings are] otherwise unspecified, in accordance with García Márquez's evident attempt to capture a more general regional myth rather than give a specific political analysis".

But Russian President Vladimir Putin described the investigations as "yet another evident attempt to derail Mr. Blatter's reelection" and introduced a geopolitical element when he said that the U.S.-led arrests had an ulterior motive — to throw into question Russia's host status.

"I have no doubt that this is yet another evident attempt to derail Mr Blatter's re-election as Fifa president.

But it is striking that as the science of global warming has got more certain, the climate change warnings more dire, and the political promises more ambitious, there has been no evident attempt to challenge this culture, under Labour or Conservative chancellors.