Sentence examples for illegal attempt from inspiring English sources

This was just an intelligence-gathering effort, the CIA officer said, not an illegal attempt to give Iran the bomb.

It said the report "may well be an illegal attempt at stock manipulation by its author or authors".

Some parents and scholars were also aghast at what one person called the "illegal attempt to change the attitudes, beliefs, and actions of students".

In the sworn disclosure statements, the executives said they had not paid a public servant in an illegal attempt to gain influence, records show.

Critics said it was part of an illegal attempt by Mr. Zelaya to defy the Constitution's limit of a single four-year term for the president.

"Saudi Aramco is not the only company that became a target for such attempts, and this was not the first nor will it be the last illegal attempt to intrude into our systems," he said.

The phone company Orange confirmed several illegal attempts had been made to access his mobile phone mailbox.

The phone calls and letters continued even after Mr. Schwartz went back to court to ask that Bank of America be sanctioned for illegal attempts to collect the debt.

American officials call them democracy-building efforts, but the Cubans consider them illegal attempts to undermine their government, underscoring the dangers involved.

The inquiry includes whether China's steady reductions in rare earth export quotas since 2005, along with steep export taxes on rare earths, are illegal attempts to force multinational companies to produce more of their high-technology goods in China.

In many ways these shocking, and illegal, attempts to intimidate are easier to spot and deal with than the wider definition, which represents a general meanness that often exists in online debate.