Sentence examples for evident attempt from inspiring English sources

"I have no doubt that this is yet another evident attempt to derail Mr Blatter's re-election as Fifa president.

Russian officials, as the conference's hosts, met twice with the head of the Iranian delegation on Tuesday, in an evident attempt to keep the process from derailing.

The statement made by the Secret Army Organization leader, on trial for his life, was an evident attempt to implicate members of the government in his decision to join the OAS.

But it is striking that as the science of global warming has got more certain, the climate change warnings more dire, and the political promises more ambitious, there has been no evident attempt to challenge this culture, under Labour or Conservative chancellors.

It amounted to an evident attempt to rally the entire Islamic world against the United States -- an outcome that the Bush administration and its allies have sought to avoid by saying their argument is with terrorists, not with Islam, and by reaching out to Arab states.

Like many of the painters and composers during these years (notably Pablo Picasso and Igor Stravinsky), Matisse relaxed into a modernized sort of classicism and into a rather evident attempt to please an art public that was a bit tired of attempts to shock it.

His best-known plays -- "Waiting for Godot," "Endgame" and "Happy Days" -- are still regularly performed in France, but the Beckett festivals and now the Beckett Film Project are evident attempts to reclaim him as an English-language writer, and an Irish one at that.

The distrust between the two sides is evident: Attempts failed again today, for the third time, to set the terms of a truce that would allow the water supply to be restored to one town, Kumanovo, and for aid to reach the besieged Albanian residents of Lipkovo.

After the rioting an armoured personnel carrier with helmeted troops on top cruised through Lhasa, displaying a red banner that read "religious activities must keep to the law".Official insensitivity to ethnic minorities is evident in attempts in recent years to foster a cult of the Yellow Emperor, a mythical ancestor of the Han race, who supposedly lived 5,000 years ago.

Whilst a liberal use of the term has ensued, a plethora of research interprets tranquillity primarily with noise, and where broader interpretations are progressed, traditional, directional questioning techniques are evident in attempts to understand tranquillity and quantify its features.

Third, it is evident that attempts to gain access to the service initially are met with, in some participants' opinion, needless delays of several weeks while waiting for their first appointment.