Sentence examples for crass effort from inspiring English sources

Many critics assert that labor's across-the-board fight against trade expansion measures, including the China and Africa trade bills, represents a crass effort to protect American jobs by preventing imports from increasing.

Such sentiments are viewed warily by many French voters, and Mr. Sarkozy's opponents, who are exasperated by what they see as a crass effort by financial players to browbeat France into accepting more of the type of austerity measures that have squeezed growth in Greece, Spain and other troubled euro zone countries.

Back in 1967 the critic for The Village Voice, a publication you might think would be wholeheartedly supportive of a "tribal love-rock musical," took umbrage at this comprehensive "with-it -ness, with-it -nessthe showith-it -nesspportunism" that "exploits every obvious up-to-date issue — the draft, the writingen negrithat — in a crass effortheo be both timely and tidy".

Her "concern" was that the GOP candidates were citing Israel far too frequently in a crass effort to court the Jewish vote.

Such crass efforts to railroad the Falkland Islanders, and the British government that stands beside us, are doomed to fail.

Eta began, like so many other Spanish problems, in defiant opposition to Franco's dictatorship and his crass efforts to erase regional identities and tongues.

In six weeks of testimony, prosecutors had played dozens of secretly recorded phone calls, which they say revealed Mr. Blagojevich's blunt, crass efforts to benefit from state business, including trying to get money or a cabinet position in exchange for his choice for the Senate seat.

But James Baker, the chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association, called the gun-control groups' effort "a fairly crass attempt to bootstrap their agenda on the tragedy of Sept. 11".

Which may explain, to the less cynical among us, why he played Bach suites for the hundreds of people jamming the entry to Sanders Theater, unable to get into his concerts; and why he crosses over into what may seem crass commercialism in the effort to heal the world with music.

Sacramento bureau chief John Myers writes that California Gov. Jerry Brown sent a letter ahead of the summit to the attorneys general of Texas and West Virginia, accusing them of "crass obstructionism" in their effort to raise doubts about one of President Obama's key climate change initiatives.

But in an e-mail he said that he regretted taking part and viewed Red Bull's efforts as little more than crass commercialism.