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.
"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.
Law enforcement officials said they openly trailed Matthew after he left the police station, and he drove away from them at what Longo described as an "alarming" speed in an evident attempt to evade them.
Russian President Vladimir Putin describes the criminal investigations as "yet another evident attempt to derail Mr. Blatter's reelection" and says the U.S.-led arrests had an ulterior motive — to throw into question Russia's 2018 World Cup.
And the voice belongs to none other than the New York Times, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning editorialist, Nicholas Kristof, has decided to share this "inconvenient truth" with his liberal colleagues in an evident attempt to get the GVP community to be more realistic and honest in its approach to guns.
