Sentence examples for effectively attempting from inspiring English sources

It is effectively attempting to safeguard the City of London from interference from Europe's other financial centres.

Asante shows that Britain, in cringing to Bechuanaland's overweening neighbour, was effectively attempting to revive two queasy spectres from prewar life: appeasement and abdication.

By introducing fees, the government is effectively attempting to impose a financial penalty for exercising a statutory right of appeal against its own tax demand".

In 2009, after the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers sued Google Books for copyright infringement, Kahle opposed the proposed settlement, charging Google with effectively attempting to privatize the public-library system.

Fellow TechCruncher MG Siegler covered the back-and-forth between Google and Microsoft that unfolded in regard to the supposition that the group that bought the Nortel patents was effectively attempting to cut the legs out from underneath Android.

Such adjusted models effectively attempt to estimate the longer term effect of lower birthweight on disease risk while standardising for current height [ 12], and may reflect the growth trajectories taken to reach current body size [ 38].

Regarding the newly passed legislation incorporating draconian penalties for bicycle riding on sidewalks (Metro Briefing, June 27): While presumably well intentioned, this bill effectively attempts to send cyclists from the frying pan into the fire.

What was he thinking?Way back in March, I was left speechless by a press conference involving both Eds which effectively attempted to prove, with numbers, why Ed Balls would have been a better chancellor of the exchequer than George Osborne.

But he said in an interview on Tuesday that even without such action, Congress could change the date of the election in the event of an emergency, or that states that failed to choose electors on Election Day could effectively attempt a do-over under federal law.

According to Kantacouzenos he desired to expand the country from Byzantium to the Istros, i. e. from Constantinople to the Danube which makes him the last medieval Bulgarian ruler who effectively attempted to capture the Byzantine capital.

The Chicago Tribune wrote that "The new governor's decree effectively attempts to impose right-to-work rules on public employees, an idea Rauner and his pro-business allies also are pursuing for private-sector unions".