Shortly after his release from prison, Pretty tells Luis that Fancy threw pool chemicals in her face in a purposeful attempt to scar her.

However, they did not take any action and may have assumed that Climbié's appearance was a purposeful attempt to "persuade the authorities to hand out money".

The LAT and NYT note Obuchi's reputation for timid foot-dragging, and characterize this as a purposeful attempt to appear bold and decisive.

Such constant flux in the game's rules are a purposeful attempt to frustrate the player.

In the United States, tax evasion is the purposeful, illegal attempt to evade the assessment or the payment of a tax imposed by federal law.

It wasn't a wild ride, like before: it was a purposeful attempt to get away.

Biographer Daniel Stashower suggests Poe's purposeful attempt to provoke his audience and alienate himself further was inspired by his Imp of the Perverse.

A batter who is "hit by pitch", due to an inadvertent wild pitch or a pitcher's purposeful attempt to hit him, may be seriously, even fatally, injured.

Although there were no purposeful attempts to separate families, this did occur in the chaos of the eviction.

This title was a purposeful attempt by the author, Arnold Drake, and the illustrator, Leslie Waller, to tie sophisticated writing with equally refined drawn art.