Famous Quotes & Sayings

This attempted fraud must be punished more severely than as if it were simply another rules infraction.

This is a blurring of the margins of people who are engaged in non-violent political speech, an attempt to bunch them in with extremists and terrorists,

Raila Odinga

This is an attempt to turn the clock backward. The Kenyan people will resist this attempt.

Lyudmila Alexeyeva

This is an attempt to smear a well-known group with allegations of involvement in espionage activity. They are preparing public opinion for a government move to close us down, which they can now do under the new law.

This is an attempt to religiously sterilize the teaching of history in our schools.

This is an attempt to play a shell game with the law.

This is an attempt to get discovery they are not entitled to - it's also six months too late.

This is an attempt to disrupt the very trusting (doctor-patient) relationship, one which is very important when a patient is ill, ... When they come to their physician, (patients) need to trust that physician, not think that they're crooks.

Matthias Platzeck

This is an attempt to discredit the policies of Gerhard Schroeder, policies that were right.

This is an attempt to broker a compromise that has completely backfired,

This is an attempt by Nippon Sheet Glass to smooth out the business cycle so they are not totally dependent on supplying glass to liquid crystal displays. Once Nippon Sheet Glass gets the Japanese carmakers under its belt, it can then sell to the European manufacturers.

Arjuna Mahendran

This is an attempt by Indonesia to try and supplement their oil output because they have not been very successful in inviting foreign investment into their country to boost domestic production.

It's all very well to say one scandal shouldn't set back the field, but Hwang's team was the field. If his results are false, then after seven years of attempts worldwide, no one has succeeded in getting even the first step in 'therapeutic cloning' to work on a practical scale. At what point do legislators stop throwing away good money after bad?

It's used in serious crimes, such as murder, attempted murder, sexual offences, abductions and missing persons where foul play is suspected, internet luring and child pornography,

It's not that he was Michael Jordan, but who is filling the 10 (points) and four (rebounds per game)? Who is even attempting that? Somebody just has to step up.

For many kids, the only thing they know about money is how to spend it. By making classroom presentations on budgeting, savings and the value of compound interest, bank employees are attempting to turn the tide and create a generation of savers.

Walter Lang

For centuries people have attempted to find the location of the Garden of Eden, placing it in such divergent places as Florida and Babylonia.

For a while, that can is going to take the cake. This was one of the more elaborate attempts -- it required creativity.

They endured life-threatening ... conditions and executed an extremely difficult and dangerous rescue mission ... It took courage and heroism for people to conclude that they would make the effort and attempt that rescue mission.

Alejandro Toledo

They are dressing up the results without listening to the will of the people, ... I want them to know if they attempt to twist the will of the people that I will be the first to go to the streets at the front of the line, to defend the rights of the nation.

Karen Smith

They are attempting to bury the Orchard Drive issue at No. 42 on the township priority list. This would put the solution to the safety issues several years into the future at best.

This meeting was an attempt to do the people's work. We are hereby calling for another meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 6 p.m.

There was some type of explosion either heard or felt by the miners attempting to go in the mine for a shift change. They then backtracked out of the mine.

Brandon Phillips

There was pretty good odds that we were definitely disturbing someone that was attempting to convalesce, or a surgeon who is attempting to do some complicated microscopic vascular procedure.

There was no resistance, no attempt to flee or anything like that. It was a very, I hate to use the word, it was a very routine investigation and arrest. Just so happens that he's someone who is of some prominence and so everyone is making a big deal of it.

There was no attempt to determine who was accountable on the 9/11 Commission. This time, there's got to be accountability. If you're an elected official, you should be inviting accountability for yourself.

There was no attempt by IDOT to drag this case out.

There were no poisons made. There seemed to be a pathetic, clumsy, amateurish attempt to make some by a man who was conceded by all to be a difficult, anti-social loner.

There were attempts to improve the work conditions of the police, but the corruption continued as in other administrations.

Warren Rudman

The Republicans are very sensitive to the idea that the Democrats are attempting to embarrass the White House, even when there's a legitimate issue to look into.

Edward Kennedy

The Republican proposals of finding of facts are really not the findings of fact, they are findings of fiction, ... It's a desperate attempt to further embarrass the president of the United States and it's an attempt to save their own political position.

There is no unit that is directly reportable to the Secretary of Defense for clandestine operations as is described in the Washington Post article. ... Further, the department is not attempting to 'bend' statutes to fit desired activities, as is suggested in this article.

Jay Rockefeller

The report does further document Saddam's attempts to deceive the world and get out from under the sanctions, but the fact remains, the sanctions combined with inspections were working and Saddam was restrained.