Sentence examples for posted to try from inspiring English sources

Police officers were posted to try to keep journalists away from the sites where the birds were being killed.

Mr. Van Flein also used the Facebook posting to try to quash speculation that Ms. Palin resigned as governor last summer to cash in on her fame.

They also have been urging him to remove his sons from powerful posts to try to ensure they do not seek the presidency.

last week, as David Ignatius reported in The Washington Post, to try to learn why the French suffered a colonial disaster in a guerrilla war against Muslims in Algiers.

In 2008, the two of us teamed up with the Huffington Post to try to improve election coverage by broadening participation in it.

Norman Baker, the new Home Office minister, has indicated that he will not use his post to try to reopen the debate about the death of David Kelly.

Jones topped off the victory by threading a 10-foot shot from a difficult right angle, as Menard left his post to try to kick the ball away.

The Devils pressed for the winner as defenseman Andy Greene abandoned his blue-line post to try an offensive play, attempting a cross-ice pass to Ilya Kovalchuk that did not connect.

Carbonite CEO David Friend wrote back "A CJ affiliate was using pay-per-post to try to sell Carbonite and a bunch of other products.

Go through all affected wall and status posts to try and get a picture of the situation.

"We posted it to try to see if we can make a difference," she told HuffPost.