Sentence examples for disturbing attempt from inspiring English sources

"These latest charges are another deeply disturbing attempt to permanently erase democracy and the democratic process in Egypt," he said in a statement.

The court, meanwhile, saw Sun's proposed lawsuit for what it was: a disturbing attempt to stalk and harass someone who he'd literally never met.

But even more disturbing: suicide attempt risk was positively correlated with the level of infection.

It's wondrous and disturbing, this grandiose attempt to create the perfect globalised city-state in the desert, irrespective of the environmental consequences, a city dedicated to boundless leisure and the business of making serious money.

The frenzied way someone had wrapped twine around the bulging case suggested a disturbing record of attempted escapes.

The interview, which was excerpted on "Rock Center With Brian Williams" and shown at full length on the "Today" show on Tuesday, was one of the more disturbing and damaging attempts at spin control in recent memory — and this is an election year.

As a survivor of extensive early-childhood sexual abuse myself, I have always found this to be the most disturbing of all attempts by others to pathologize and discredit my adult sexuality.

In the past year, we have seen another disturbing development in the attempt to further manipulate the statistics.

By Friday, when Union County prosecutors declared that the motive was more mundane, if still disturbing — a botched robbery attempt — some residents had called for a curfew.

In the Times Magazine article that supposedly made me an authority, I detailed some of the Agency's disturbing activities, including its attempts to spread false reports of a terrorist attack in Louisiana and to smear me as a neo-Nazi sympathizer.

Video: disturbing footage of the attempted murder of a young man outside a McDonald's restaurant in Flatlands, Brooklyn.