Sentence examples for disguised attempt from inspiring English sources

It is not, he insists, a disguised attempt to impose capital controls.

His plan was attacked by Rick Santorum as a disguised attempt to soak the rich.

In 1965, in a feebly disguised attempt at matching America's precedent of 1776, he declared Rhodesia independent.

Democrats had opposed the requirement, saying it was a thinly disguised attempt to intimidate voters of color.

But advocates for coastal dwellers called the report a thinly disguised attempt to drive residents from the beach.

It asserted that Mr. Sherwood was really an appointee of Fir Tree's and that this effort was really a disguised attempt to take over the company.

But to some, what appeared even more striking were the details about just how vulnerable the United States had become to such — sometimes barely disguised — attempts to sway public opinion.

It is increasingly concerned by the "pivot" which many Chinese analysts see as a thinly-disguised attempt to contain China's rising power.

Building a "national park" that connects to E1 is the Israeli government's ill-disguised attempt to circumvent clear-cut American opposition to settlement in E1.

And now Putin's ill-disguised attempts to reassert Russian control over Ukraine have of course reminded the Polish people all too clearly of what Soviet "liberation" meant for them in 1945.

China and India consider the tax a unilateral trade levy disguised as an attempt to fight climate change.