Sentence examples for attempt to reason from inspiring English sources
They would attempt to reason.
During the journey, Wade murders two of his captors, and he makes a prolonged attempt to reason or bully Dan into letting him go.
On the one hand, there is the thoughtful Op-Ed of our president ("Why We Need Health Care Reform," Aug. 16) written in an attempt to reason with the American people, many of whom have reacted irrationally, without a clue as to what kind of health care reform legislation Congress is actually considering.
As the robotic Anonymous voice says in the video: "We have seen your depraved methods of disseminating your message of hate throughout the United States of America... your hatred supersedes your faith... Since your one-dimensional thought protocol will conform not to any modern logic, we will not debate, argue, or attempt to reason with you".
For such reasons it is probably unhelpful to attempt to reason in terms of a singular evolutionarily stable sex ratio in wild mouse populations.
The students who interpreted the purpose of the investigation as strategies for plant growth or to identify needs of the plant did not attempt to reason using the mass data (medium and low levels of sophistication).
In keeping with his stage theory of moral development he explicitly rejects Locke's maxim, 'Reason with children,' (Locke, 1971) on the ground that attempting to reason with a child younger than thirteen years of age is developmentally inappropriate.
One congressman told a protester that attempting to reason with her about health care would be like "trying to argue with a dining-room table".
Jack Laskey, meanwhile, is the perfect everyman, attempting to reason using straightforward language and a placatory manner with a man who speaks in rhymes and constant contradiction.
And the stress of attempting to reason with a bawling child can make it hard for parents to contain their frustration - especially when passersby feel it is appropriate to comment on the situation.
There's nothing even remotely sexy about the sight of a bloke flaccidly staggering around a supermarket wearily attempting to reason with a bad-tempered three-year-old who won't stop knocking multipacks of Monster Munch off the shelves.
