Sentence examples for realistic attempts from inspiring English sources

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".

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

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.

"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.

In the following episode of The Chaser's War on Everything, the team emphasised that their only realistic attempt to disguise the vehicles was the use of a Canadian flag.

The budget legislation promises to serve more as an election-year political and policy statement by House Republicans than a realistic attempt to engage Obama and Democrats in any serious effort to further cut the deficit.

Hence, in a second, more realistic attempt, we performed a new set of simulations accounting for the observed diversity of admixture values derived from STRUCTURE (see Additional file 3).

Recently, a consensus on the definition of PORs (the Bologna criteria) [ 7] was published as the first realistic attempt by a scientific community (ESHRE) to standardize the definition of POR.