Sentence examples for apparent bid from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Richie's apparent bid for relevance might really be a simple play for attention.

— Note from a Pennsylvania man who allegedly attempted to rob a bank in an apparent bid to go to prison.

The bass Dmitry Ivashchenko displays the voice for Sarastro, but sometimes undersings in an apparent bid to seem sympathetic.

But officials and state media have bestowed a string of titles on Kim Jong-un since his father's death in an apparent bid to strengthen his position.

"Does he have a mark by his eye?" she asks the men standing around the body, in an apparent bid to avoid having to view the corpse.

ISIS, he told us, had attacked Basam's position, in an apparent bid to draw elements of the Golden Division away from Akha.

Brazil's government covered up the existence of Islamist terrorist suspects in São Paulo and border areas in an apparent bid to protect the country's image.

Eighteen months ago, in an apparent bid for wider diplomatic recognition, the Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, ordered the country's farmers to stop growing opium poppies.

Both the commission and the emergency management agency, in an apparent bid to placate critics, said an emergency drill next year would include "a terrorist scenario".

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou met in November in apparent bid toward closer political and economic relations.

Mr. Ouattara's camp on Wednesday sought to minimize such talk, however, in an apparent bid to accelerate the military defections that have already occurred.