Sentence examples for improper attempts from inspiring English sources

The candidate PACs grew out of the unlimited contribution binge permitted by Citizens United, but they are actually in direct contravention of the court's (mistaken) belief that contributions to independent groups cannot be considered improper attempts to influence the candidate.

The court also cited an alleged action by McCaffery to have the Philadelphia traffic court fix a ticket his wife received, as well as allegedly improper attempts by the justice to influence assignment of judges in the Philadelphia court of common pleas.

the allegations that improper attempts were made to influence the decision-making of relevant institutions by figures of public prominence.

The other dust-up involves a report that the U.S. attorney's office in New Jersey is looking into allegations that United Airlines employees made improper attempts to influence an official of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey by adding a revenue-losing flight from Newark to Columbia, S.C., to its schedule.

European allies howled that it constituted an improper attempt to apply American law in other countries.

Saying it, Judge Carnes wrote, was "an improper attempt to inflame the jury".

He has been hinting at a run for the Republican presidential nomination, and many critics see the prayer service as an improper attempt to court the religious right.

Hunter indicated that the union would fight such an action, saying, "We will respond aggressively to any improper attempt by the team to impose additional penalties".

He deemed the suit an improper attempt to usurp the county's authority via "a tortured judicial interpretation of an antiquated statute from a bygone era".

"Therefore, Blackground's negligence cause of action is not an improper attempt by an employer to recover damages incurred as a result of the wrongful death of an employee," Justice Edmead wrote.

A minority of the panel's members, all from Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party, objected to the use of the word "fit," in eference to Mr. Murdoch, calling it "an improper attempt to influence Ofcom," the British media regulator considering whether News Corporation is a "fit and proper" company to hold a broadcast license.