Sentence examples for attempt to please his from inspiring English sources

Niall Ferguson's rousing call for an unapologetic American Empire could be dismissed as a sycophant's desperate attempt to please his masters – if it did not also effectively provide legitimacy to the Iraq war that resulted, and attach a sense of righteousness to those who perpetrated it.

It didn't take long for the internet to point out the connections between this eldest son's bungling attempts to please his powerful daddy and a certain famously incompetent firstborn ― Gob Bluth.

But — though the biographer doesn't put it this way in "Chagall" — one mother rebuffed him, despite his lifelong attempt to please her: Mother Russia.

Instead he finds himself remembering his mother singing in the same wordless way in a futile attempt to please her lover.

Historians have interpreted this as an attempt by Oppenheimer to please his colleagues in the government and perhaps to divert attention from his own previous left-wing ties and those of his brother.

An example of the dilemma that Pope Paul is constantly facing in his attempt to please both sides is what his attitude toward Italy should be — a subject on which new light was thrown by the interview with Cavallari.

In between, his pursuit of perfection had been held back by family illnesses, a back injury and a packed schedule that left him weary in his attempt to please everyone.

This "Hollandaise compromise" - as his limp attempt to please everyone has since been dubbed - has also left the goal posts wide open for the emerging National Front, who now claim that Roma illegals will be their key issue in the upcoming municipal elections.

After cramming his schedule in an attempt to please everyone -- including the Davis Cup team -- he found out that his mother and sister had cancer.

He zigzagged on immigration in an attempt to please everyone and predictably pleased no-one.

Dr. Malik has ditched his old nationalist comrades in a desperate attempt to please the Pakistani military.