Sentence examples for deployed to try and from inspiring English sources

Fierce clashes have erupted in Hong Kong between pro-democracy supporters and police, with tear gas deployed to try and disperse the crowds.

Over the past year the country's courts have been deployed to try and keep hundreds of candidates off the ballot, most of them opponents of the PDP.

Vast amounts of capital is being deployed to try and gain their custom and at that lower end of the market no one is making any profit back.

Armoured personnel carriers were deployed to try and keep order, and anyone entering Tahrir had to pass through metal detectors.

It said more than 220 rescue vehicles and 4,000 members of the emergency services were deployed to try to ease the congestion and provide alternative exit routes.

Police armed with batons, tear gas, pepper spray and plastic bullets and mounted divisions were deployed to try to control the violence, according to news reports.

But he got the impression, he went on, that, after he challenged the story, the "entire resources of News International and News Group Newspapers" were deployed to try to "destroy me".

In the capital, Dhaka, about 10,000 paramilitaries and police officers have been deployed to try to prevent clashes during the 60-hour strike, due to conclude tomorrow evening.

Machine politics was deployed to try to prevent undesirables such as Ken Livingstone standing as London mayor and Rhodri Morgan as Wales's first secretary.

And in the future, if these threats are deployed to try to block action to redress the power imbalance, the power of these threats is going to be greatly diminished.

Several fire crews were deployed to try to contain a bushfire at Hervey Range, north of Townsville, by backburning.