Sentence examples for shocking attempt from inspiring English sources

Tarantino does his motormouth thing and exhibits a shocking attempt at a cockney accent.

Ian Rintoul from the Refugee Action Coalition said the Nauruan government's public release of the woman's name was a "shocking attempt to intimidate women refugees on Nauru".

For instance, at the very time we entered the country, Australia's Border Force was in the midst of a shocking attempt to expand its powers, announcing plans to perform random document checks on the streets of Melbourne.

The All India Democratic Women's Association Group said in a Facebook post they were organising a demonstration against "West Bengal government's apathy and shocking attempt at covering up of the rape and death of 16-year-old girl in 24 North Parganas".

Writing in the Observer, Tristram Hunt, Labour's shadow education spokesman and a historian, accuses Gove of a "shocking" attempt to score political points ahead of the events to mark the war, which began in August 1914 and led to the deaths of 16 million.

Thomas Hobbes' (1588 1679) brilliant but shocking attempt to derive moral and political obligation from motives of self-interest initiated the British Moralists debate.

Last week, though, the Oklahoma Republican crossed a line that I find shocking, attempting to discredit scientists through innuendo and the kind of intimidation that can have a chilling effect.

This is not only a shameful attempt to deny our clients' simple request for an apology, it's also a shocking waste of public money and official time.

A week after the shocking assassination attempt on Pakistan's prominent television talk-show host, Hamid Mir, Islamabad has failed to locate and arrest the perpetrators.

Kerry, testifying before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Wednesday, said he viewed the senators' letter as a shocking, unprecedented attempt to circumvent the nation's commander in chief.

Parker and Stone insist that the show is still more about "kids being kids" and "what it's like to be in [elementary school] in America," stating that the introduction of a more satirical element to the series was the result of the two adding more of a "moral center" to the show so that it would rely less on simply being crude and shocking in an attempt to maintain an audience.