Sentence examples for mild attempts from inspiring English sources

Such mild attempts seem, given the deluge of torture videos, futile.

Shop stewards oppose Mr Asmal's rather mild attempts to reward good teachers and discipline drunken or lazy ones.

Since the shooing, Taylor has made mild attempts at conciliation, but most people feel they have come sixteen years too late.

He displays his contempt for the enterprise by accosting everyone with slurs and profanity that Margery greets with only mild attempts at reprimand.

Even mild attempts at 'austerity' were criticized by the Cardinal and much of the Argentine Church, but when austerity was abandoned and the currency devalued and debt reneged upon, the lot of Argentina's poor became even poorer.

Though if his early work had been mild attempts to use technology, Cyberpunk itself, Robbins wrote, was "the sound of science gone too far".

The rows are arrayed in descending order of release date, a mild attempt to present data without weighting.

By Sasha Frere-Jones December 5, 2011 The rows are arrayed in descending order of release date, a mild attempt to present data without weighting.

I smiled at him in a mild attempt at camaraderie and he stared right through me, as though trying to see his own reflection in my eyes.

The campus-carry law allows professors to ban guns from private offices, but despite her sign — a mild attempt at levity — written notice is not technically sufficient; professors are required to tell each student orally.

Patriots Law Is Confident Until Lawyer Milloyy's outburst, the only bit of trash-talking this week had been a mild attempt by Patriots cornerback Ty Law, who said the Steelers' 1,000-yard 1,000-yard Plaxico Bureceivers Hines Ward, were cocky and simPlaxico Burress and Hines Ward a physical defense.