Sentence examples for on tried from inspiring English sources

Yet he remembered that a member of one committee he was on tried to persuade the others to put a large percentage of the foundation's assets into gold.

ITV1 leans too heavily on tried and tested programme formulae.

There was also the usual overreliance on tried and true — read: "tired" — Super Bowl ad tactics.

The answer, surely, is to rely more on tried and tested methods of criminal investigation and trade-craft.

Math Munchers Deluxe has the appeal of a video game while relying on tried and true math drill techniques.

"I resigned, I moved on, tried to correct it," said Mr. Dawson, who owns an auto parts distributorship.

They were all pimped out in 70s suits while the white folks focused on tried-and-trues like golf shirts and tie-dyes.

Try simple, chemical-free formulas based on tried-and-true cleaners like baking soda and vinegar.

Boxed in from left and right, with Labour only narrowly ahead in polls of voting intention, both main parties are falling back on tried-and-tested campaign messages rather than riskier, more expansive ones, in spite of warnings from shrewd folk in their ranks (see Bagehot).This retro campaigning makes the general-election result a little more predictable.

Everybody's relying on tried-and-trusted formulas.

Should NASA build on tried-and-true technologies or start over on new designs?