According to the army, Ms. Devi was shot because she tried to escape.
Mary Whitehouse didn't think that was nice either, because she tried to get him banned, didn't she?
After losing her No. 1 ranking, in part because she tried too hard to live up to it, she won the fourth major, the Women's British Open.
She calls herself a renegade scientist, however, because she tries to bring together aboriginal healing, Western medicine and botany to advocate an unusual role for trees.
You can't back Mr. Clinton on selling the Lincoln Bedroom to fat cats, and then mug Ms. Sanchez because she tries to lure fat cats with a famous venue.
He "knows" that she was glad when her attacker mutilated her because "she tried to make herself believe that would be the last thing" and "that he'd be through with her then and let her go".
He produces some nice examples of culture-driven disasters: Carly Fiorina failed as CEO of Hewlett-Packard because she tried to impose a sales-driven culture on an engineering-dominated organisation.
I know this because she tried to do just that two days before, as I was taking my distressed kitten from the carrier after picking her up from the low-cost neutering clinic (also in need of money).
During the public appearances of Mata Amritanandamayi, also known as "the hugging saint" because she tries to hug every person in her audience even if there are thousands, Mr. Shankar sometimes stands by her side to share the glow.
Her reference to Trelawny's dissolution of his "brief marriage to a maid of Greece", because she tried to abandon native dress for French fashions, rather glosses over the peculiarities - not to say, enormity - of the union itself.
A Muslim businesswoman was dealt an eight-year prison sentence last month mainly because she tried to mail her exiled husband back copies of local newspapers, a newly available transcript of the court verdict confirms.
