Sentence examples for associates trying from inspiring English sources

The activity that they are observing in the marketplace may be the work of company insiders or associates trying to cash in on information that has yet to become public.

Here he and his associates tried to rebuild what they had lost in terms of infrastructure.

In the early 1970's, Mrs. Graham and her associates tried to make the Washington Post Company more profitable.

That would be Trooper Michael Wooten, Sarah Palin's former brother-in-law, the one that her family and associates tried to have fired while she was governor.

Wearing two microphones and carrying a hidden camera, he attended at least 10 meetings in which Mr. Cook or his associates tried to raise money from investors.

This is a dark masterpiece of impressionism, the movement in which Monet, Renoir and their associates tried to paint not static, preconceived views of nature and society but rapidly brushed glimpses of the passing beauty of modern life.

In July 2009, Team Sky was merely a series of spreadsheets, random jottings, and what the team's founders term "brain dumps" as Brailsford and his associates tried to figure out how to start a professional cycling team.

After all, no one forced her to augment her recorded output with a volume of poetry and a loosely organized memoir -- in fact, it seems likely that a number of sensible friends and associates tried to dissuade her.

With his troubles mounting, friends and associates say he is continuing to try to project an air of confidence and authority, abruptly changing the subject when his closest associates try to console him.

It says a lot about the group often dismissed as purveyors of good-times dance fare that the song At Last I Am Free should be a sepulchral ballad, not about the end of an affair but the night Rodgers and some acid-dazed associates tried to negotiate a Central Park peppered with Panther-bashing cops.

In a program note Zaha Hadid, founding partner of the firm that bears her name, writes that she and her associates tried to articulate the "rhythmic and harmonic range" that Bach achieved "within the mathematical framework" of his music by exploring "a coherent integration of formal and structural logic".