Sentence examples for generally trying to make from inspiring English sources

The Conservatives have put significant efforts into bolstering their local campaigns: parachuting in American-style organisers, sending hundreds of young activists out to marginals (an operation known in the party as the "shag bus"), and generally trying to make doorstep campaigning more fun.

But he is not exactly an outsider: his cousin, Sonny Perdue, was Georgia's previous governor.Mr Kingston has run a bare-knuckle campaign, accusing his opponent of destroying jobs, scrounging federal dollars and favouring tax hikes, and generally trying to make the Perdue family sound like the Georgia Borgias.

Off the track, Simms and the rest of 'Team Bolt' work feverishly to help Bolt with his media and commercial work, sorting out travel and accommodation, and generally trying to make his life run as smoothly as possible.

Open Data: In addition to taxis and the hackathons, the city is more generally trying to make all sorts of other data available to developers — it says it already has 60 apps built on its data, according to its presentation.

In his five terms, he's made emissions a priority -- along with generally trying to make his Indianapolis suburb a better place for its 84,000 residents.

We are grateful to have jobs, yet find ourselves working overtime to sustain a lifestyle, and bolstering the lives of our three twenty-something's along with their significant others as they prepare for changes in an uncertain world: moves, graduation, graduate schools, a business start-up, and generally trying to make ends meet.

To be sure, foundations generally try to make sure that gifts do not drop precipitously.

Brown generally tries to make logical arguments with piles of data.

But the utilitarians out there have generally tried to make the snoozers feel bad.

When white entertainers imitate blacks, they generally try to make themselves rougher, more unsophisticated than they really are.

Professionals generally try to make up for that by imagining how a wine would fare in more appropriate circumstances.