Sentence examples for employed to try to from inspiring English sources

Many methods have been employed to try to stop the indiscriminate spread of copies, including copy-protection schemes, hardware-crippling devices, education programs, even legislation, but all have proved ineffectual.

The hole reopened to play before noon, and a huge fan was employed to try to dry the area around the green, but rain pummeled the course again in the afternoon and the creek swelled anew.

Just for the pleasure of their company I once locked Chris and Hugh Bonneville in a room with me, back in the days when they were less employed, to try to write a sitcom.

French patrol planes flew overhead, 144 can-can dancers in dresses emblazoned with the French flag cavorted around the pitch, an Eiffel Tower banner was unfurled and a 7.5 sq km French garden overlay were all employed to try to create a party atmosphere in stark contrast to the ring of steel outside.

Their weaknesses are not the fault of the United States (France and Italy were the region's colonial powers, if one is looking for foreigners to blame), yet the policies that America has lately employed to try to strengthen Sahel governments, and particularly their counterterrorism forces — to "build capacity," in the Washington jargon — have at least partly backfired.

Here in Kent – and this is where the novelist's imagination comes in – a wholesome young nurse named Millie Appleyard is employed to try to get him into a fit state to be a statesman again, and hold off the circling vultures.

That seems to be the point, and it's part of a marketing strategy that some developers are employing to try to keep Manhattan families from leaving the city — or to lure them back after they escaped to the suburbs in search of more space for their kids to play.

A number of different options are available for governments to employ to try to decrease residential water demand.

PFLANZ: What emergency measures did UNICEF employ to try to ease the effects of the drought, especially on children?

Finally, our study is the first to show that anthropogenic selection may enhance cancer evolution in the wild, and it therefore cautions about what measures we employ to try to halt the spread of this devastating disease.

Standard stochastic techniques were employed to try and recreate the binary response [31], [32].