Sentence examples for farcical attempts from inspiring English sources

Having been suspended from the University of Sussex for my campaigning work on campus, I and four other students have been dragged through a four-month process that has cost the university well in excess of £100,000, which after a series of farcical attempts at expulsion eventually resulted in our receiving a caution and a slap on the wrist, which we will appeal.

Her farcical attempts to seduce Oscar are shaped by the woman's desperate loneliness, social ineptitude, and rigidly linear patterns of thought.

(Horne describes the trial as a farcical attempt to "frame a guilty man").

Mr. Orlov described that determination as a farcical attempt to pin her murder on a dead man — an insurgent, no less.

Relations with Romania soured after a farcical attempt to rebury one, Jozsef Nyiro, in his home town.Hate speech and xenophobia are on the rise.

"This was a farcical attempt to stifle the crucial public debate on fracking, and it should have never happened," she said.

The plot revolves around a farcical attempt to have a roof collapse acknowledged as a miracle, when a broken statue of the school's venerable founder appears to shed blood.

In a further twist to its farcical attempt to deal with corruption allegations surrounding the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding race, Fifa has lodged a criminal complaint against certain individuals involved with the Swiss authorities.

All that remains of this period is one home video, in which: "Mad Dog lasts about four minutes before being dispatched by the Anthrax Kid after a farcical attempt to get the Country Boy over the ropes.

It seems a hackneyed premise for a story, but Iagnemma deftly adds a pair of contrapuntal subplots, one culminating in a tragic suicide, the other in a farcical attempted suicide.

This short-lived and somewhat farcical attempt to place Iraqis in charge of their own liberation was marked by frequent disputes as the Special Forces company commander tried to carry out his orders while the haughty and willful Ahmad Chalabi treated the Iraqi fighters as a personal praetorian guard intended to escort him to Baghdad and, presumably, into a position of power.