Sentence examples for deliberate attempts from inspiring English sources

Nowadays, the timekeepers add on minutes deemed lost for injuries, substitutions, and deliberate attempts to waste seconds.

Another question is whether referees can judge when certain head checks involve recklessness or deliberate attempts to injure.

Protesters blamed police tactics for provoking the demonstrators, some suggesting that they were deliberate attempts to discredit the event.

It also finds several trials and convictions for "deliberate attempts at terrorism or terrorism financing" that it does not challenge.

However, much or most of the Republican advantage in the House results from geography rather than deliberate attempts to gerrymander districts.

Firstly, there is no doubt that the ANC has made deliberate attempts to airbrush the role of white liberals out of anti-apartheid history.

— JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG Mr. Levin faults the bank's traders for what he says are deliberate attempts to play down and disguise the losses on the trades.

Ryanair, led by its combative chief executive, Michael O'Leary, is famed for its PR gaffes, some of which appear to be deliberate attempts to gain publicity.

Of course, there have been deliberate attempts to misdirect gamers toward titles that are virtually identical to successful products – if only in name.

Trump's falsehoods are deliberate attempts to warp the entire field of veracity, so as to defy the simplest parameters of sanity.

In years past, the Senate and the House were able to beat back such deliberate attempts to destroy the legislation by amendment.