English translation for bona fide attempt and usage examples from the best sources

In essence, the administration expected its outreach to fail, but believed that it had to make a bona fide attempt in order to build support for tougher measures.

(b) On the record in this case, it cannot be claimed that the Board's action in dismissing the teacher was part of a bona fide attempt to gain needed and relevant information regarding his qualifications for his position.

"The printer is a bona fide attempt to prove the interoperability and open source nature of Autodesk's platform," said Pete Basiliere, research director at the Gartner tech agency.

On the surface it seems like a bona fide attempt to get the ball rolling," said Dan Lazaroff, who is on the faculty at Loyola Law School.

In few other situations would the international community tolerate an entire civilian population being held under military rule for 45 years, or the systematic abuse and military detention of children as young as 12. Until a bona fide attempt is made to right this institutionalized injustice, can anyone realistically expect the situation on the ground to improve?

The use must continue for five years to qualify in California as a public prescriptive easement; be substantial, rather than minimal and continual, though not necessarily continuous; and be without significant objection or bona fide attempts by the owner to stop the trespass.

Trump's demand is so obviously improper that it's possible to see it in a different way not as a bona-fide attempt to gain information about the investigation but, rather, a dare to Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General, to resign in protest.

Labor has promised that every bona fide refugee who attempts to reach Australia by boat from the policy announcement date of July 19 will be settled on the impoverished South Pacific island nations of Papua New Guinea or Nauru.

There's a lot to go by in this millennial men's roundup for bona fide self-improvement or attempting to recapture some years left on the table by Father Time.

"It's an imitation of all 20th- and 21st-century extreme political parties, where they attempt to infiltrate bona fide parties by taking over an acceptable ideology and then forming a party within a party, such as Momentum," he said.

And just as Carnap regarded the formal mode translations of philosophical theses as proposals to adopt a certain language form, Schlick contended that the solipsist's thesis was not a bona fide contingent claim but simply an attempt to introduce a particular mode of speech.