Sentence examples for practice of trying from inspiring English sources

They also engage in the "quasi-religious practice" of trying to predict what the skies will send forth next.

And he said he believed that the practice of trying to steal opposing coaches' signals by videotaping was not uncommon.

"This sort of stewardship has more in common with park management than it does with our current practice of trying, in the broadest way possible, to kill microbes".

In 1664 an anonymously written pamphlet, "Vindex Anglicus," railed against the practice of trying to use the absurd Latinate words that were then creeping into English.

The human rights group's report criticized the 21-year-old emergency law, state security courts and the practice of trying Islamic militants before military tribunals.

Mr. Obama was speaking, in particular, of his decision to revive George W. Bush's practice of trying terrorism suspects in military commissions.

"I would rather do that in practice instead of trying to force-feed guys in games and then something unforeseen happens.

Their God grows closer as they practice serving instead of trying to convince others to a particular point of view.

But the upshot is sometimes embarrassment about any status or power, an impulse to disown it symbolically (almost never in practice) in lieu of trying to find ways to extend it.

In 2003, he made a very funny (and somewhat heartrending) video, called "Practice," of himself trying to shoot baskets while wearing a voluminous hoopskirted dress in yellow and purple — the Los Angeles Lakers' colors.

Most of the results responsible for the science originated from the practice of engineers trying to improve steam engines.