Many see the Paisley strategy as a prolonged attempt to tar the Ulster Unionists as traitors, rather than a genuine attempt to bring the government down.
Small wonder, then, that Mr Levy's resignation was seen as a canny attempt to make as unratlike a departure as possible from Mr Netanyahu's foundering ship.
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This drill will be used, engineers say, for the so-called plan B, as a parallel attempt to a drill a rescue shaft down to the miners.
At this point, it's as much a thought experiment as an attempt to create a usable tool.
Some viewed the central banker talking his currency down from elevated heights as a feeble attempt.
The British government regards it as a mischievous attempt to pull Britain away from Europe.
The move is being seen as a deliberate attempt to start to distance the military from running Iraq.
The government had interpreted these moves as an obstruction of justice as well as a possible attempt to flee.
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The charter school movement began as a grassroots attempt to improve public education.
The court documents detail Matt's continuing troubles, including an aspirin overdose in March 1996 that is characterized as a suicide attempt.
This is because Medicaid so severely underpays doctors, as a clumsy attempt at cost control, that doctors lose money seeing these patients.
By and large, it is a young people's party, and it dismisses past social policymaking as a failed attempt to allocate scarcity.
These replaced a 1981 amendment that had divided Kuwait into 25 constituency districts in a move widely portrayed as a government attempt to gerrymander support in its favour.
Critics described this as a desperate attempt to improve publicity.
But indoors there is too much emphasis on super close-ups and skewed angles, which sometimes comes off as a forced attempt to make this Eyre distinct from the others.
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No, say his opponents (and most historians), who see this as a ludicrous attempt to link modern-day Slovakia to an ethnically pure superpower in the dim and distant past.
It was widely perceived as a desperate attempt to recapture the interest of the hipster class that once propelled it into the mainstream, before being overshadowed by the creeping empire of Facebook.
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Other senators described the afternoon meeting, seen as a final attempt to keep Jeffords in the GOP, as an "emotional" and "constructive" discussion about the future of the moderates in the Republican Party and Jeffords' situation.
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But Alliance politicians continue to question these statements, pointing to the decision by both DUP and UUP councillors to distribute 40, 000 Alliance-style yellow leaflets as a blatant attempt to ramp up tensions over the Union flag issue.
The first of its kind in the country, the restriction has sparked reaction from pizzeria counters to late-night talk shows, celebrated by some as a bold attempt to improve people's health and derided by others as another "nanny state" law from Bloomberg during his 11 years in office.
North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple, a Republican, characterized his state's new law as "a legitimate attempt by a state legislature to discover the boundaries" of the Roe decision.
But history shows that minting developed not as a private-sector attempt to minimise the costs of trading, but as a government operation.
Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa's unprecedented visit to Gaza this week should be seen as a last ditch attempt by Egypt to convince Hamas to unify its ranks with Fatah.
It follows a handsome engineer as he emerges from a suicide attempt.
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The fiscal cliff will continue to be a talking point as Democrats and Republicans attempt to reach a compromise.
He told the BBC that he believed the Budget speech would provide a "very good foundation on which to build" as Labour attempt to seek a fourth term in government.
And while some might argue that it imposes certain constraints that might be called a "fix, " it could also be described as an attempt to conserve a cherished way of doing things.
Barack Obama has made a concerted attempt to present himself as a latter-day Lincoln, keeping a portrait of the martyred president on his desk and taking his oath of office on Lincoln's Bible.
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