deliberate attempt to annoy or provoke sb
The speech was a deliberate attempt to embarrass the government.
40 years later scientists proved that the Piltdown man was a deliberate attempt at paleontological fraud.
This is not just bad spelling, but a deliberate attempt to creatively misspell words.
The car crash wasn't an accident; it was a deliberate attempt to kill him.
Seeking results is no longer a deliberate pursuit of beauty and perfection, but a deliberate attempt to grasp the coherence and perfection of the process.
Bad response: "Your claims are at best pure fabrications and at worst a deliberate attempt to slander our good reputation."
By hacking into your files, it does sound like a deliberate attempt to target you personally. How do you feel about him?
She thought the banner was a deliberate attempt to subvert the school's anti-drugs policy, and worried that it would spark unruliness.
It also allows us to examine further the whole system of governance and to ponder whether there is indeed a deliberate attempt to discriminate against the Malays in Singapore.
THE FRENZY TO TRY to regulate or even outlaw cloning is in part a deliberate attempt not to let it go the way of IVF, which has been a hodgepodge of unregulated activities with no governmental or ethical oversight and no scientific coordination.
Some is the result of deliberate attempts by overseas customers to fraudulently obtain products without paying.
One important aspect concerns spreading the truth about what is going on, and supporting us where people have been fooled by deliberate attempts to depict us as fearful.
Apple's claims about RIM products appear to be deliberate attempts to distort the public's understanding of an antenna design issue and to deflect attention from Apple's difficult situation.
