Sentence examples for usual attempts from inspiring English sources

There will, of course, be the usual attempts to dismiss the whole thing based on trivialities.

But given Apple's usual attempts at spin, it may be seen that way.

The usual attempts by object oriented (OO) programmers to force their model into SQL involve building a metadata model in SQL, in which the tables use a proprietary, nonrelational, auto-incrementing feature that replace a global object identifier and have columns that contain the names of attributes and their values to establish the class hierarchy.

If a problem is not resolved after usual attempts between the individuals involved at UAB, a postdoc has the opportunity to file a formal protest to the Council of Postdoctoral Education, which includes senior and junior faculty members, as well as postdoc fellows.

Entertainment Weekly writer Ken Tucker said of the episode, "Its eloquent silences, its breath-taking pictorial compositions... these are pleasures that transcend 98% of television's usual attempts at dirty realism or fashionable pessimism".

Voice acting, which has traditionally been seen as one of the series' weaker points, was evaluated as better than the series' usual attempts, but occasionally "flat" when more emotion was needed.

And the Republicans' visceral attacks on the Obamas' patriotism, and their usual attempt to make the Democrat seem foreign (Hussein, Hussein, Hussein!), may not have the same traction.

According to Roy Hattersley in the New Statesman, "the moral certainty that bursts out of every page makes it more than the usual attempt to justify the unjustifiable..

China rejected climbing permits for mountaineers wanting to climb in Tibet, meaning that more people than usual attempted to ascend the mountain in Nepal.

At the ﬿nale, there was the usual attempt to manufacture drama: the other female left in contention was the much-hated-by-fans Lisa Fernandes, of the perpetual scowl and occasional back-stabbing.

They view Mr. Paul's crusade as nothing more than the usual attempt by members of the opposition party to undermine the assertive foreign policy of an incumbent president.