Those kids were attempting to define me as something other than, and smaller than, an American.
Experts are reportedly attempting to define a new search area, despite the absence of any funding commitment to enact it.
I'd been doing this for a while, attempting to define a word for an object or even a concept.
News that the ATSB was attempting to define a new search area, despite a lack of any funding commitment, was first reported in August.
Stripped of excessive ornament, but retaining traditional motifs, the style seems to be attempting to define a national identity – a "romantic peasant unifying glue".
It is a dipping of toes into shallow waters compared to the deep black plunge that is attempting to define "Orwellian".
To his credit, he circles his subject in eloquent detail without ever attempting to define with any finality what lies at the heart of Morrison's songwriting.
In attempting to define trousers, historians often explain that if any portion of a garment passed between the legs, it was an ancestor of this garment.
Suddenly there were articles attempting to define the word "bae", otherwise reputable businesses began implementing "bae" in their social media ad campaigns, and everybody and they mama started using it.
This division, by now, has become staggeringly boring; arguments between the two camps attempting to define jazz still flare up periodically, though they turned into intellectual mortar about 10 years ago.
"In attempting to define this case as a challenge to 'the will of the people,' state defendants lost sight of what this case is truly about: people," the judge said.
