Sentence examples for reduced to trying from inspiring English sources

McLennan was reduced to trying to get his supporters elected to the paper's management committee.

Daunte Culpepper has been reduced to trying to salvage a victory for the winless Lions.

So now people are reduced to trying to like him louder than each other, to prove to Tom Stoppard that they're clever.

Staff at Number 10 were reduced to trying to make a virtue of the uncivil war by talking about "clearing the battlefield".

Ellison was reduced to trying to summon up his novel from memory or from the memories of those who had read it or heard him read it.

The artist's last years were rather abject: living apart from his family, he was reduced to trying to sell his London drawings to the City Corporation, who turned him down.

First, said Mr. Obama's budget director, Peter M. Orszag, payments to hospitals will be reduced to try to encourage them to work more productively and efficiently.

Down on earth though, we're reduced to simply trying to stir it around.

Like its rivals, Shell is reducing costs to try to improve profitability.

"Because open source reduces friction to try, [a platform like] Hadoop gets widely distributed.

The patients we examined were all daily consumers of 1 to 5 analgesic drugs to reduce or try to prevent (unsuccessfully) their headache attacks.