Sentence examples similar to feeble attempt at justification from inspiring English sources

Again, we hope that the Board does not accept this feeble attempt at "spin" as a justification for Ms. Hart's misrepresentations.

"This is a feeble attempt at crisis management," Mr. Chester said.

No, a feeble attempt at three points was the result.

But the effort was denounced by privacy advocates as a feeble attempt at crisis management.

I can neither see him nor hear him as I make my feeble attempt at yet more stage Oirish.

When this failed to elicit the response he was looking for, he made a feeble attempt at blackmail.

In an e-mail from prison, Mr. Madoff confirmed that he and his wife "made a feeble attempt" at suicide "while in a severe state of depression.

The scene of a man and a woman standing in nature's apparel and caressing each other is a feeble attempt at eroticism on a mythological pretext.

'I just want to have sex.' When this failed to elicit the response he was looking for, he made a feeble attempt at blackmail.

Mr Flores surrendered without a fight, saying simply "I lost"—though once he arrived at a police airport in Lima, he made a feeble attempt at a "revolutionary" salute, raising a mangled hand from a gurney.

It was a feeble attempt at a cover-up.