Sentence examples for backward to try to from inspiring English sources

I have bent over backward to try to give notice when we were going to call up a bill and to have cooperation with the Democratic leadership to make sure senators had a chance to make their case.

"I think maybe the first few months we all leaned over backward to try to avoid writing separately in a couple of opinions," he said, "but I don't think that will last".

"Singh bent over backward to try to use the same assays as published, allowing her to knock down what I consider to be a real straw man but that nonetheless was out there," says retrovirologist John Coffin of Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

Let's roll the tape backward to try to understand what is happening to families.

When I did manage to pick the hedgehog up, it walked backward to try to escape my hands, eventually falling and landing on its back in the box.

As an editor at a traditional house, I always bent over backward to try to help authors get the cover they wanted.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics created, in 1999, another price index the "CPI research series using current methods," or "CPI-U-RS"—to try to extend backward in time to late 1978 the better treatment of substitution and other improvements made to the CPI-U over the years.

Particularly here, where the United States runs out of continent, and where Lewis and Clark reached the ocean, people say they are prone to look backward and forward, to try to touch some piece of this history.

Penn put me in a car and said, 'My ability to speak quickly and clearly is the only thing keeping us alive.' ") But his friendship with Vernon led him in another direction as well — backward, in a sense, to try to define what it was that made magic matter, why the tradition counted, and what it meant.

We continue to work backward and use placebo-controlled research to try to persuade people not to do procedures, rather than use it to prove conclusively that they work in the first place.

Rather, he's a standard-bearer for his own inimitable genre, whose charter involves satisfying pleasure centers, challenging orthodoxy of any stripe, and pushing society forward/backward to try to free it from its own muck and mire.