Sentence examples for pay for trying from inspiring English sources

Sixteen months' imprisonment is a heavy price to pay for trying to prevent climate change.

The Americanization of the Mexican is a real price they will have to pay for trying to escape poverty.

He talks to schoolchildren, to show them how dangerous it is to smoke, and the high price they could someday pay for trying to be cool.

For a complete novice, it's not clear exactly what you should be doing at first, which is frustrating at first – but that's the price you pay for trying to hit the big time, albeit in a less conventional way.

The most lasting effect of the whole controversy was not on Dylan, but on folk revivalism itself, which, ever after, was doomed to be labelled a bit fusty, boring and uncool by onlookers: the price you pay for trying to stop progress.

The problem with the cliffhanger tactic was that the greatest source of discord remained as hot and raw as it had been at the start: which countries should take the blame for destroying the climate, and which countries should pay for trying to put it right.

If it becomes too burdensome for you to go out and see things for free that other people have to pay for, try to locate some gratitude for all the responsibility you have been accorded.

But is there a price to be paid for trying to be one of the boys?

Now, an intruder pays for the incursion, the way teams paid for trying to get around Charles Oakley and Anthony Mason of the Knicks back in Pat Riley's day.

Arsenal could have doubled their lead in the closing stages but ended up paying for trying to protect their single goal.

But Stokes paid for trying to play Kabir Ali's second ball of a new spell off the back foot when it kept low, hit the seam and defeated his late jab downwards.