Klinsmann wants to win the World Cup with that team and so do the US football administrators so they certainly don't consider themselves as mere try-hards.
It presented itself as an experiment, an exercise in optimism even in its darkest notes a genuine financial and artistic risk that C.K. was able, in his gentle, aw-shucks mode of self-deprecation, to share as a mere attempt to try his best at something big and see what happened.
The mere effort of trying to sort out the maybes, the would-haves, and the might-yets that populate a film like "Looper" makes me feel that my neocortex has been removed and replaced with Juicy Fruit, much chewed.
Why would a mere major try to pull off such a stunt with a few dozen men in a city full of soldiers?
Cooper had the chance to seize back the impetus in this topsy-turvy affair with a penalty from distance only to pull it wide, but with the lead a mere converted try nerves tightened as the seconds ticked away.
Beyond the financial cost is the human toll, as people who have lost loved ones, homes and livelihoods, and seen places where they lived and worked submerged in mere hours, try to come to terms with their traumatic experience and move on with their lives – either in new locations or in their flood-prone towns and villages, aware that the waters could always return.
More so, certainly, than a mere two tries to one does.
When the spurned singer died suddenly, the pair – out of a need for forgiveness, perhaps, or mere curiosity – tried to contact Batten via seances conducted by Gladys Osborne Leonard.
Her practice of Zen and the Art of Under-Dressing is all very appealing, but a strikingly beautiful person in no make-up and rumpled clothes is very different from a mere mortal trying it.
Last year, the latest in a series of years dubbed the "year of mobile advertising" by industry boosters, advertisers spent a mere £35m trying to reach British mobile users, according to Enders Analysis.
"They did that in place of going to work... they were in an alley or in the street corner shooting dice for nickels and dimes, etc. (mere pittances) trying to win the little money from his Soul Brothers who might be gambling off the money [they] should take home to feed their starving children or pay their small rents, or very important needs, etc".
