Sentence examples for disguised effort from inspiring English sources

Opponents called it an unconstitutional attack on abortion rights and a thinly disguised effort to shutter clinics.

But he said he feared they represented a disguised effort "to get a list of people to take down later".

Short-sellers say that plan is little more a thinly disguised effort to provoke a short squeeze.

Both Perkins and Carly Fiorina are convinced that the entire investigation was a thinly disguised effort by Dunn to get Perkins and Keyworth off the board.

Advocates for coastal property owners called the report a thinly disguised effort to use federal insurance regulations to force people off the beach.

But many residents see the idea of a greenway as a thinly disguised effort to close Park Row as a thoroughfare for good.

Similarly, they see democracy lectures as disguised efforts to extract concessions, or propaganda paid for by aggrieved oligarchs.

But her opponents, and free-speech advocates abroad, see the measure as an ill-disguised effort to silence a powerful critic.

"This is another, not-so-cleverly-disguised effort to restrict the ability of employers to express their views during an election campaign, to inform employees of the pros and cons of unionization," said Randel K. Johnson, the chamber's senior vice president for labor matters.

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.

In many Western countries, teachers and pupils alike generally view the framework of intelligent design as a thinly disguised attempt to introduce religious preconceptions into the classroom, and major international efforts are being developed to counteract their negative role in education (Interacademy Panel 2006; Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe 2007).