Sentence examples for mode tried to from inspiring English sources

Prada's crew work was a hair quicker and Prada's skipper Francesco de Angelis, now in attack mode, tried to climb above America One and blanket his sails.

"They're in a defensive mode, trying to hold on to what they have," he said.

"We were still in survival mode trying to pay bills," he said.

They are not reactionaries in the Tipper Gore mode, trying to whip up a moral panic.

Anderson and DeWolfe went into marketing mode, trying to boost the audience of their one-among-dozens social network.

-- The attorney general and his team are in damage-control mode, trying to explain confusing and seemingly inconsistent statements.

Many others are going into survival mode, trying to renegotiate their loans, cutting staff, offering bargains to customers and closing less profitable restaurants.

Like early-80s era Depeche Mode trying to be prosecuted under obscenity laws, Kunt and his puppet pal Little Kunt perform routines about everything from Carol Vorderman to Fred West.

And he came into office in reactive mode, trying to handle the famine and economic crisis many thought would destroy the government entirely.

The Wisconsin Republican complained that politicians are too often in "survival mode" — trying to "get through the day," rather than reflecting on and applying Catholic social teaching.

Neither of us had yet discovered what set her off, but went into full recovery mode, trying to get her to talk, reassuring her all was O.K.