OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about the writer's attempt to speak & understand Spanish.
Labor backbenchers greet his every attempt to speak in Commons with shouts of "Shhh".
He doesn't speak any of the local languages and he makes no attempt to speak them.
Following the defeat of the Nazis, Heidegger made no attempt to speak out against the Holocaust.
Publishing the merger proposal was seen as an attempt to speak directly to Anglo shareholders.
Abner Louima's family were sitting on a bench outside the court, but Dunleavy made no attempt to speak to them.
The New Yorker, June 26 , 1989P. 83 OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about the writer's attempt to speak & understand Spanish.
Mackanin made a game attempt to speak it, mentioning "wins above replacement" in agreeing that statistics really do help measure a player's capabilities and value.
"And I said to her, 'Absolutely right — this is an attempt to speak Biblical values in a nonreligious language,' " he recalls.
When Scandinavians from different countries meet, they usually attempt to speak their own languages, perhaps with a bit of the rhythm words of the other language mixed in.
He felt to attempt to speak in what would have been an extremely rudimentary Spanish would have potentially undermined his authority even more.
