Sentence examples for but of trying from inspiring English sources

And Bruce Alberts, the editor of Science, said the question for his journal was one not of federal intrusion but of "trying to avoid inappropriate censorship.

For Soderberg, life isn't a matter of applying strict moral rules but of trying to meet unforeseeable challenges in a reasonably civilized fashion.

For me, this experience was not a matter of getting back my musical game but of trying to pick up where I had left off in the 1980s.

Nice wants all of us to change our mindset and think not of asking for the pills but of trying to avoid taking the pills unless doing so is absolutely necessary.

"It should be a matter not of taking the sugar off the table but of trying to put the sugar out of reach except to those in direct flight from persecution, and leaving the sugar available to those who manage to reach the table whether by plane or boat, with or without a visa," Mr. Brennan wrote.

He was already older than forty; he had twenty years of show biz behind him, and his nineteen-sixties weren't an age of protest and activism but of trying to establish himself, tooth and nail, as the filmmaker that he had decided to become.

But instead of trying to broker peace, "she alienated herself from the masses," he said.

But decades of trying to do that for agriculture have run into powerful resistance from farmers.

But instead of trying to lessen its reliance on tourism, Mexico is moving the other way.

But instead of trying just Erbitux, it gave the patients Erbitux plus irinotecan.

Hakim went 12 yards, but instead of trying to chew up more turf he pitched the ball to Canidate.