Sentence examples for insidious attempt from inspiring English sources

Opponents say it is an insidious attempt to criminalize political free speech.

"This is an insidious attempt to equate criticism of the government with insanity," said Holly Cartner, director of the Europe and Central Asia division of Human Rights Watch.

Using racial fluidity as a weapon is simply a more covert, insidious attempt to silence minority progress and elevate whiteness in spaces where it does not belong.

It's absolutely not, say art critic William Packer and novelist Frederick Forsyth in today's Times, an insidious attempt to replace all that vile modern nonsense with a proper statue of a famous person.

Obama's campaign website described his views as "offensive and repugnant", saying the film was "an insidious attempt to dishonestly smear the President by giving intellectual cover to the worst in subterranean conspiracy theories and false, partisan attacks".

Americans see an air collision, or the jockeying among competing cities to get the Olympics; the Chinese see another insidious attempt by foreign powers to weaken China and hold it back.

So how should we respond to overt or insidious attempts to undermine this vital scientific concept?

In the hackers' post, they said their attacks were not sponsored by Iran, and said they "strongly reject the American officials' insidious attempts to deceive public opinion".

They said the attacks were not state-sponsored by Iran, and said they "strongly reject the American officials' insidious attempts to deceive public opinion".

In an online post, it said the attacks had not been sponsored by a country and that its members "strongly reject the American officials' insidious attempts to deceive public opinion".

And yet this is also a point where he is in unity with the larger Party, which has long supported measures that are supposedly aimed at insidious attempts to destroy the integrity of the ballot but that serve, really, to suppress the turnout of minority and low-income voters.