Sentence examples for in an attempt to marginalize from inspiring English sources

It's also a reflection of the Obama campaign's supreme confidence in the delegate math at this juncture the campaign now appears secure enough in its commanding position that it no longer feels compelled to declare victory in an attempt to marginalize Clinton.

In an attempt to marginalize Litvinenko, he was arrested and accused of abuses of power while working for the FSB, and despite an acquittal, more charges kept coming to him, which made it inevitable that he would have to flee Russia.

While there, she said, she became increasingly concerned that detainees' medical and psychological problems were being downplayed or ignored, and that those who protested conditions were being isolated in what she believed was an attempt to marginalize their complaints.

Many critics of the ban viewed it as an attempt to marginalize secular and Sunni opponents of Iraq's religious Shiite parties, including Mr. Maliki's.

Mr. Qanuni, an ethnic Tajik, tried to portray the arrests as anything but an attempt to marginalize the Pashtuns, saying: "This issue has nothing to do with ethnicity.

The pejorative use of the phrase "conspiracy theorists" is nothing more than an attempt to marginalize anyone who disagrees with the "official story" about anything the government or media claim to be true.

"Roy was sometimes referred to as a black photographer, a qualifier that can be a subtle attempt to marginalize someone," Ollman said.

Though the United States and Britain view the corps with distrust as a French attempt to marginalize American influence in NATO, Mr. Eagleburger said today that he was satisfied with the communiques language saying that NATO would have first call on forces assigned to the Western European Union.

If this was not a deliberate attempt to marginalize those of us who choose to teach in the public school system, then it was exceptionally poor timing.

That "[deprecated]" was a way of whistling past the graveyard, a self-conscious attempt to marginalize what later came to be called "black hat" hacking (malicious meddling), as opposed to "white hat" hacking (free-spirited creation).

Even as he accused Mr. McGreevey of demonizing him for his stance on abortion, Mr. Schundler, the former mayor of Jersey City, likened Mr. McGreevey to an ayatollah in Iran and said that Mr. McGreevey's attempt to marginalize him was tantamount to religious persecution.