Sentence examples for constructive attempt to from inspiring English sources

Is this a constructive attempt to engage by sections of the press who looked ready for a long and probably ugly fight, or a sullen gesture of defiance?

"I think it's important to emphasize that this initiative should be seen less as a criticism than as a constructive attempt to strengthen standards and enforcement," said Pat Doherty, corporate governance director of New York State Comptroller Thomas P DiNapoli, during the conference call.

The Guardian asks: "Is this a constructive attempt to engage by sections of the press who looked ready for a long and probably ugly fight, or a sullen gesture of defiance?" The paper thinks the triple lock is "a workable idea – but not if, as proposed, the newspapers still have the power to veto even the 'independent' members of the new regulator".

In contrast, the astrologer had no such puzzles since in that discipline "particular failures did not give rise to research puzzles, for no man, however skilled, could make use of them in a constructive attempt to revise the astrological tradition" (Kuhn 1974, 804).

"It's not very constructive to attempt to paint science as a threat to society--which it clearly is not.

He is critical of what he takes to be Dewey's backsliding into metaphysics in Experience and Nature, and has no patience for the constructive attempt of Logic: The Theory of Inquiry.

But taken as a whole, the roadmap appears to be a genuine attempt to be constructive.

And when the FA read this column, this attempt to be constructive, they'll probably charge me with bringing the game into disrepute.

In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of several attacks that attempt to break constructive interference in Glossy.

The ECPA framework incorporates constructive and pruning approaches in an attempt to efficiently evolve compact ANNs.

Of course, even if the argument from interpretation fails and purely descriptive legal theories remain possible, it could still be a worthwhile project to attempt to give a constructive interpretation of legal practice, and the output of this project would indeed be a partially evaluative theory.