Sentence examples for offensive attempt from inspiring English sources

Arizona didn't get into their stride in their first offensive attempt.

"This is an offensive attempt to rip away people's marriages," said Geoff Kors, the executive director of Equality California, a gay rights group.

"Mrs. Ellmers is desecrating this hallowed ground with her obvious and offensive attempt to raise her profile.

As for the response by the Etheridge campaign last week that accused Ellmers of "desecrating this hallowed ground with her obvious and offensive attempt to raise her profile," Ellmers maintained that the issue was indeed relevant in her district.

Yes, the candidates can challenge each other, but some things should not be left to a "he said, she said" stalemate and will require a moderator to weigh in — like Mr. Trump's offensive attempts to claim he did not aggressively promote a campaign that questioned Mr. Obama's citizenship or Mrs. Clinton's mischaracterization of the F.B.I.'s assessment of her handling of email.

But the Hurricanes' defense clamped down on any further offensive attempts by Virginia Tech and denied the Hokies more points.

A step-by-step takedown of "yellow fever," or the desire to date Asian women often accompanied by bizarre, offensive attempts to do so, could start the healing.

"Our attempts to uncover the truth through the courts have been met with determined and at times extremely offensive attempts by the police to avoid any disclosure on these issues," it read. .

In the Mediterranean, a Christian offensive attempted to eliminate the danger of the great Turkish fleet in 1535, when a strong armada under Don Álvaro de Bazán and Andrea Doria captured the port of Tunis, expelling Admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa from the waters of the Western Mediterranean.

Much like his often offensive attempts to court African-Americans were meant less so to get the African-American vote and more so to make white moderates feel comfortable voting for him despite what they might have perceived as a racist sensibility, his approach to LGBTQ issues was meant for a larger audience and not for queer people ― and it still is.

From February to July , 1918 the German Army launched four major offensives, attempting to secure victory before the full American forces could be mobilized.