Sentence examples for crude tries from inspiring English sources

Since 1994 and the first democratic elections he has tried to write a kind of novel which, while not in any way agitprop or crude, tries to give that sense of the new historical moment".

Now, remember... that the election in Taiwan is just a short time away and some analysts said well, maybe this was a crude effort by Beijing to try to influence that election.

The movie is too timid to risk genuine ugliness, and too crude to try for real beauty (Scott).

Mr. Naimi said Saudi Arabia had sold two million barrels of a special blend of crude that tried to replicate the high quality of the lost Libyan production.

It may be crude to try to slice sides in a civil conflict into good guys and bad guys - but it is even harder in Libya.

It is desperately searching for new pools of crude while trying to make up for their scarcity by shifting its focus toward natural gas.

It seems crude to try rank communities by Most Fucked Over By Manitoba Hydro.

Governments in Thailand, the world's largest rice exporter, have for many years toyed with the idea of using their dominant market position to influence the price of rice in the same way that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries tries to set crude oil prices.

And Hollande's officials claim that he is not so crude as to try to put together a bloc to counter Germany.

Death-penalty enthusiasts say several studies suggest it does.A crude way of trying to settle which camp is correct is to compare murder rates in jurisdictions with and without capital punishment.

Crude oil prices tried to rebound from their lowest levels in years, but after an early rise above $50 a barrel, they fell $1.77 to settle at $44.51 a barrel in New York trading.