Sentence examples for erred in trying from inspiring English sources

"Evo also erred in trying to mix that agenda with trying to empower his political movement".

Mr. Payne, a former Kerry adviser, said Mr. Jordan had erred in trying to sideline Mr. Kerry's Boston crew.

New York State's highest court on Tuesday ruled that the Bronx district attorney's office erred in trying to use a state terrorism charge to prosecute street gangs.

President Obama has shown himself to be a fine administrator, but he erred in trying to make himself the irreplaceable man in nearly ever sphere of public life.

While acknowledging that Chinese policy makers had erred in trying to "fight the market", Sorrell maintained that "in the fullness of time it will smooth out".

For example, the Bank of England erred in trying to push up domestic prices in the early 2000s in order to meet its inflation target when Britain was benefiting from cheap Chinese imports.

If you err in trying to describe a man as "tall," you may have said that he has "long balls".

We err, in trying to apply to the South, the idea that excluding some people from common rights creates a paradox: a society that is "free" in word, but not in actuality.

A defense lawyer for the man, Paris Drake, who is charged with attempted murder in the attack on Nicole Barrett, 28, on a Midtown sidewalk last November, called a psychologist to the stand yesterday to argue that witnesses can easily err in trying to identify assailants.

But current and former Viacom executives said that after so many years building a rock-solid brand identity for VH1, its leadership erred recently in trying to make the network -- so long considered a haven for baby boomers -- more narrowly focused on the hipper, younger members of Generation X (those in their late 20's to mid-30's).

Even the White House has, in Bogost's view, erred some in trying to use games to excite families and kids about health.