Sentence examples for bid to try from inspiring English sources

In a bid to try and look tougher in his environment, he adopted drastic/unnecessary measures.

The case could bear on Peru's bid to try a former president, Alberto K. Fujimori.

Police fired smoke bombs in a bid to try and clear the pitch.

But sometimes making a bluff bid to try to mislead the defense will work well — as in the diagramed deal.

High-profile cases, like his bid to try the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, appeal to him, and sometimes he overreaches.

As a consummate PR man, he is appealing to the fear of the Other in a bid to try to ensure he is re-elected in 2015.

It makes the boasted bids to try to lure Fernando Torres, Steven Gerrard and Cesc Fàbregas away from their clubs to join the second team in Manchester unlikely.

Some international firms have even started lowballing bids to try to buy their way into the market — a development that is "killing Western firms here," says the Shanghai-based Dutch architect Daan Roggeveen, who is the co-author of a book on China's new megacities.

The Tannadice boss said he is having to rely on too many youngsters as he bids to try and steer United into Europe.

Then he bid us to try the small hunks of Parmesan on a small plate in the center of the table.

Toffees manager Roberto Martinez has insisted that United have made a "final offer" for Baines, having bid £12m to try and lure the England left-back to follow former manager David Moyes to the Theatre of Dreams.