Sentence examples for Try to erect from inspiring English sources

Engineers try to erect and maintain infrastructure against threats that are indifferent to them.

An Open-Door Outlook While some political families try to erect barriers between their personal and public lives, the Edwardses have actively torn them down.

At a push, the government could try to erect a few obstacles in a hurry, as it did when Pfizer bid for AstraZeneca in 2014, and hope the bidder goes away.

WINSTON CHURCHILL What democracy needs most of all is a party that will separate the good that is in it theoretically from the evils that beset it practically, and then try to erect that good into a workable system.

"Democrats can't chide Republicans for trying to block Senator McCain from the ballot, and then turn around and try to erect ballot roadblocks to candidates in their own parties," said Gene Russianoff, a lawyer with the New York Public Interest Research Group, which has asked the party not to adopt the rule.

Overall, then, while we should try to erect barriers against underage purchase, we should also expect those barriers to leak.

It's not that they're trying to erect roadblocks.

Even watching reality show contestants trying to erect a tent can be maddening.

So he tried to erect a fortress by playing 20... g6 and 21... Ng7.

People with money are trying to erect higher barriers, she says.

As it is, we are trying to erect tents in a sandstorm.