Sentence examples for bid to deprive from inspiring English sources

"Plaintiffs' increasingly desperate bid to deprive voters of the right to have their votes counted does not warrant reconsideration of this court's well-reasoned order," wrote the Democrats' lawyers, Laurence H. Tribe and Teresa Wynn Roseborough.

But Mr. Aziz scoffed at the suggestion that Mr. Hussein had unleashed forces he had not anticipated, and dismissed, too, any notion that the prisoner release had been ordered in a bid to deprive Mr. Bush of one of his arguments for toppling Mr. Hussein -- that he is a murdering dictator.

But the success of these regulations depends largely on international cooperation, and whether lobbyists will be successful in their bid to deprive the legislation of real teeth.

Martin Marietta will focus on this issue and whether it is appropriate to deprive Vulcan shareholders of this bid.

But not long ago, there was pressure to deprive the Big East of its bid in college football's Bowl Championship Series.

Temporarily, he managed to tame the people's resentment and to ride out the storm, but his internal enemies' final bid to undermine him came off; they managed to deprive him of the generalship and to fine him at an amount estimated between 15 and 50 talents.

Wigan went on to deprive Crooks of his fourth and final bid for Wembley glory when they defeated his Castleford side in 1992.

I'm not going to deprive myself.

(To hoard is potentially to deprive your neighbor).

How dreadful to deprive them of all that.

It is brutality to deprive someone of that.