Sentence examples for attempt to trick from inspiring English sources

Wilbur told her patient that the recantation was "a major defensive maneuver," merely the ego's attempt to trick itself into thinking it didn't need therapy.

Life starts to seem a pathetically transparent attempt to trick them into forgetting about death; they lose their taste for it.

In an attempt to trick them, investigators said, Mr. Afzal had even forced an undocumented employee to pose as a foreman.

PERHAPS every journey is at its heart a battle against limits, a vain attempt to trick destiny into giving us more than our share of lives.

Researchers are developing rehabilitation robots that assist in movement, resist movement when it is uncoordinated, or even make movements more uncoordinated in an attempt to trick the nervous system into adapting.

"This practice is unbelievably deceptive and is an attempt to trick the viewer to think that a paid advertisement is actually news," the group's president, Patric M. Verrone, wrote.

A Child's First Tablet This year there were two noble attempts to trick children into believing they could have their very own tablet.

They use your email address to send spam or phishing emails attempting to trick them into thinking you need help, buy something or into giving up personal information.

The problem with the second is that the interpreters must endlessly parry visitors' attempts to trick them into acknowledging something their characters could not know about, like photography.

At one stage she rocks out extravagantly to Live and Let Die, while elsewhere Irv is being ignominiously roughed up by the mobsters that he has attempted to trick.

But there are also the more immediate menaces, including attempts to trick consumers into giving up bank and credit card information — or the use of spam to deliver viruses and other malicious software.