Sentence examples for attempting to try from inspiring English sources

He has been held in extralegal detention for more than eight years, and the military has been attempting to try him since 2005.

"Chicago was always conscious about its image that it was an overgrown cow town, and the city was always attempting to try to herd undesirable people out of the city and clean up the image of its public places," he said.

Rather than such empirical trials, intelligent design advocates often seem to be attempting to try a ghost.

The FA is attempting to try and increase the pool of talent, with the aim that England will win the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

They argued that plaintiffs' attorneys were unfairly attempting to "try this case in the court of public opinion".

Conservative speakers at CPAC and elsewhere have been hammering the administration for attempting to try terrorism suspects in the United States using criminal courts.

I don't even attempt to try to have sex with her any more.

Back home in Spain, Garzón has attempted to try Francisco Franco for war crimes, posthumously and symbolically.

"When something is fact-specific, I remain objective," I say, but "I do not attempt to try to be neutral.

We attempted to try the new features here, resulting in some serious cinematographic art.

Others who had accepted settlements in earlier cases attempted to try and sign up again, he said.