Sentence examples for realistic attempt from inspiring English sources

Mr. Spanta, the national security adviser, countered that any realistic attempt to end a war involves compromise.

"That reluctance, and Ford's commitment to failed technology, cannot be accepted as a realistic attempt to solve the obvious safety problem confronting Ford: the massive failure of distributor-mounted T.F.I. modules due to excessive heat and thermal stress".

The legislation promises to serve more as a political and policy statement by House Republicans than a realistic attempt to engage President Barack Obama and Democrats, who control the Senate, in any serious effort to further cut the deficit.

Carlile's report, issued in November, found social services and other local agencies "failed to co-ordinate any realistic attempt to address the problems" caused by the brothers, who had been placed in foster care by Doncaster and who had a long history of violence and antisocial behaviour.

As soon as the illusion is enjoyed, therefore, it gives birth not to a realistic attempt to acquire virtue, but to the sexual seduction fantasy mentioned earlier.

The ship line or tour concessionaire on board do not make a realistic attempt to secure reasonable land or air tours for passengers.

Argentinian film-maker Pablo Trapero lands a sledgehammer punch with this terrifically well-made movie, which incidentally contains the most gobsmackingly realistic attempted suicide scene I think I have ever seen in any film.

In a second submission, to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in November, Colonel Abraham explained that he was "not aware of any realistic attempts" to "identify or even attempt to bring before the tribunal witnesses or their statements," and concluded that the whole process "was designed to conduct tribunals without witnesses other than the accused detainee".

In a dynamic, complex environment, it is not realistic to attempt to create and maintain a real-time, highly detailed REM.

In this paper, we investigate whether the expectation of worm adaptation to low WEC sheep is realistic and attempt to determine factors that influence this potential rate of evolution.

But we're also being realistic and attempting to do things that generate additional revenues that go directly to students and give them opportunities that more affluent school districts have access to".