In a sense, it would have been a good career for our father, a creative man whose frequent attempts at advancement were forever thwarted, or so he felt, by his accent and his background, his lack of education, connections, luck.
Up to that point, Nelson had counted himself lucky to get 17 of the 100 senators to back his frequent attempts at environmental protection; after the demonstration, Congress and the White House fell over themselves to climb on an accelerating political bandwagon.
Since EADS's creation in 2000 from a combination of French, German and Spanish aerospace assets, its management — under Mr. Enders and his predecessors — has chafed at the frequent attempts by government stakeholders to influence decisions at the company.
Since the creation of EADS in 2000 from a combination of French, German and Spanish aerospace assets, its management has chafed at the frequent attempts by government stakeholders to influence decisions.
As images from Kashmir began to circulate on the internet – despite frequent attempts to block communications, including at least one midnight raid on the offices of a local newspaper, and a blanket ban on one English daily, the Kashmir Reader – pictures of the wounded emerged by the dozen, many of them looking as though they had ruptured fruits where their eyes should have been.
Because his batting average is down, Alomar's frequent attempts to bunt come across, to some, as a lack of confidence at the plate.
The presentation of professional basketball at Madison Square Garden has taken on the same tacky, homogenized style you'll find at any other arena: the hyperactivity, the announcer's frequent attempts to "rev up" the fans and so on.
There are frequent attempts to kill him.
Alas, during the long hours of our baby's first night when singing, frequent diaper changes, attempts at feeding and a host of new tricks my wife and I invented on the spur of the moment all failed to end Bess's relentless caterwauling, the words that echoed in my mind were, What was I thinking when I wrote that stuff?
Authority was derived primarily from prison experience: the longer a man's sentence and the more frequent his successful attempts at escape, the more influence he could claim in the organisation.
Often, this technique is used to create a sense of pace and urgency, but given how much of the novel is about pauses – hesitancy in romantic or sexual relationships; David's dilemma in coming out to his parents; the frequent stalls and misjudged attempts at friendliness between Leo and David themselves – this method seemed oddly inappropriate to me.
