Sentence examples for been trying to compile from inspiring English sources

Dr. McAfee has been trying to compile a comprehensive look at how states are evaluating preschoolers, but the task is complicated by how rapidly the picture keeps changing.

James Reynolds, the BBC's Iran correspondent, had been trying to compile a profile of Ahmadinejad and travelled to Ghana in the hope of spotting the president there.

Researchers have been trying to compile and compare microarray data from different studies.

Officials said they were trying to compile an accounting of their assets.

A fledgling service called Bookscan is trying to compile sales statistics from cash registers around the country, but until now no one even tried to count the sales of all books accurately.

(Agence France-Presse) ALGERIA: LOOKING FOR THE MISSING -- An Amnesty International team visiting Algeria said it was trying to compile full lists of thousands of people reported missing in eight years of political violence.

They worry, for instance, that exhibitions of photos on posters of the missing could hurt victims' relatives, said Josh Brown, who leads Columbia University's American Social History Project, which is trying to compile all e-mail messages sent from the World Trade Center on Sept. 11.

A group of professors and peace activists in England and the United States is trying to compile credible accounts of civilian deaths and keep an updated estimate of the total at a web site called iraqbodycount.net.net

But the refugees' only hope for an end to their exile lies in the UN settlement plan.The UN is trying to compile a register of Sahrawi voters acceptable to both Morocco and Polisario, using as its basis a 1974 census prepared by Spain, the former colonial power.

But it is trying to compile a list of damaged houses to confirm the legitimacy of applications, and it is checking names in a computer database to make sure victims apply only once, both steps that were generally not taken after Hurricane Katrina.

It probably does add an extra layer of interest if you recognise the protagonist, a poet called Paul Chowder, from The Anthologist, in which he was trying to compile a collection of classic verse while distracted by multiple Bakeresque digressions and the failure of his relationship with his girlfriend, Roz; but it won't be a deal-breaker for a reader who starts here.