Sentence examples for hurried attempt from inspiring English sources

The television commercial, called "Integrity," was made in less than 24 hours as a hurried attempt, Mr. Giuliani's advisers said, to stanch the erosion of support.

His first run, in 1988, after he had spent just a few years in the Senate, was less an act of youthful presumption than a hurried attempt to win the White House in his father's lifetime.

Essentially, the London-Frankfurt deal had been a hurried attempt to construct a "merger of equals" between unequal partners, riven by national and cultural differences, regulatory distinctions and concerns over technology and back-office clearing and settlement procedures.

What ensued was a hurried attempt to improvise a defense by civilians who had never handled a hijacked aircraft that attempted to disappear, and by a military unprepared for the transformation of commercial aircraft into weapons of mass destruction.

In the rush to avoid a prolonged lapse of the nation's bulk metadata collection program, many have criticized the FREEDOM Act as a hurried attempt.

It's not enough to say "there's nothing wrong with being gay" in a hurried attempt to make up for the fact that he had just insulted all gay people by saying that a photo is inherently unsharable… because he looked gay in it?

But an accelerated timetable for Iraqi elections, along with the C.P.A.'s hurried attempts to recruit a new Iraqi Army, suggests that the hunt is on for an "exit strategy" as America enters its own election year.

All that could be attempted was a hurried effort to collect shipping, bring barges from Germany and the Netherlands, and give the troops some practice in embarkation and disembarkation.

His remarks seem to have been a hurried, earnest attempt to show that he and Ms. Garner (who have been married for eight years and have three children together) are just like everybody else.

Donald's hurried conversion attempt was inches wide but the Chiefs reverted to their multi-phase approach which saw Hipkiss sin-binned on 66 minutes.

In his letter to Darden last month, Starboard Value Managing Member Jeffrey Smith called Darden's Red Lobster proposal "a hurried, reactive attempt, in the face of shareholder pressure to do the bare minimum to appease shareholders".