Sentence examples of "attempt" in English with translation "потуга"

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Pathetic attempts to go it alone have not made Europe stronger, and anti-Americanism harms Europe more than the US. Жалкие потуги действовать самостоятельно не сделали Европу сильнее, и антиамериканизм вредит Европе больше, чем США.
Quite apart from these weak attempts to justify Bush's statement as "technically accurate," the more serious charge is that even if what Bush said really were technically accurate, it still would have been designed to mislead the world into thinking that Iraq had been trying to buy uranium in Africa. Если даже не брать в расчёт эти жалкие потуги оправдать высказывание Буша как ``формально правильное", более серьёзное обвинение заключается в том, что даже если бы слова Буша были формально правильными, они всё равно были направлены на то, чтобы ввести весь мир в заблуждение по поводу того, что Ирак пытался закупить уран в Африке.
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