Sentence examples for transparent effort from inspiring English sources

He also said that complaints by Republicans were a "shameless, transparent effort" to stop the legislation.

His comments also signal a more transparent effort to coordinate military assistance for the opponents of President Bashar al-Assad.

Serota and some members of his board considered this a transparent effort to make the Tate validate his judgment.

Mr. Breitbart said in a statement that he "categorically rejects the transparent effort to chill his constitutionally protected free speech".

All the "play like a Jet" stuff is a touchingly transparent effort to, as they say, " invent a tradition".

Instead, it has suggested that some of the commission's work should be farmed out to a different agency, in a transparent effort to reduce the NCCC's influence.

Blaxploitation movies, group of films made mainly in the early to mid-1970s that featured black actors in a transparent effort to appeal to black urban audiences.

The comedic center of the film is in Emily's desperate romantic insecurity, which is matched and masked by her transparent efforts at swagger.

Despite their valiant and transparent efforts, the 2008 G.O.P. candidates have been unable to recreate the alchemy that transformed Ronald Reagan from a 1940s B-movie actor into an icon of the Republican Party.

These are transparent efforts to preserve the cable cartel that gouges consumers.

In taped conversations released by the CFTC, traders on the TET market joke with BP traders about their transparent efforts to corner the market.