Sentence examples for malevolent effort from inspiring English sources

I don't want to imply that this is necessarily a malevolent effort, but that profit-making companies must do more than channel a small portion of their profits into a mostly removed charitable cause if they want to be taken seriously as a social venture.

I think that this is an malevolent effort by people who are his critics to make him out to be the other in American life, that he's not really an American, he's some sort of Manchurian candidate.

"As a millennial Republican I expect more from my counterpart, and would hope that both the Nevada Democratic and Republican Parties will take steps to ensure that Miranda's malevolent efforts are not tolerated".

"We have definitively defeated a new destabilizing aim, a new perverse, malevolent, criminal effort to sink Venezuela, sink the revolution, sink the government," Mr. Chávez told the nation today in his weekly televised call-in show.

The village's suspicions fall on a Japanese vagrant rumoured to have malevolent powers, and efforts to rid the area of him reach frenzy pitch in one astonishing scene.

The real motives behind this movement are malevolent.

We may not admire them, but they're far more clueless than malevolent; it's not worth expending the effort it would take to judge patriarch George Bluth, who spends his days in an attic having tea parties with discarded dolls.

But the administration has been slower to recognize that a well-intentioned effort to forge special relationships with less malevolent but no more accountable leaders has failed to arrest their destructive tendencies.

Dispassionately, Mr. Krist describes the frantic rescue efforts, the mounting fears of the passengers and the malevolent, unending storm.

KABUL, Afghanistan — The release of explicit photographs of American soldiers apparently engaged in atrocities against Afghan civilians threatens to ignite tensions between the Afghan and American governments and provide fodder for the Taliban's efforts to persuade Afghans that the foreign troops fighting here are a malevolent force.

Highlights include Jesse and Chester's efforts to explain to each other what their new back tattoos say; their ham-fisted infiltration of the UFO cult; Brent Spiner's appearance as a malevolent ostrich farmer; and, pick of the bunch, a thwarted attempt to order Chinese food from an un-cooperative drive-through.