Sentence examples for the second tried from inspiring English sources

The first student was O.K., the second tried, but the third kid just didn't have it.

So at 17 I was given lessons, except that my first instructor retired with a nervous breakdown (I was blameless, guv), the second tried to fondle my hand on the gear-stick, and by the third instructor I felt I'd joined the ranks of the impossible-to-teach.

"I calmed down a bit in the second, tried to use my skills, and it paid off".

McCain, in the first debate (I believe, could have been the second), tried to score a point off Obama by telling him he didn't understand the difference between tactics and strategy.

The State Supreme Court heard the case and set up a procedure under which a defendant is first tried and, if found guilty, can then claim retardation in sentencing hearings.

Originally formed in 1916 as the Rhodesian Native Regiment, the RAR were, by Southern Rhodesian standards, an old and well-tried unit; they fought for Britain in East Africa during the First World War, and contributed to the Burma Campaign during the Second.

"The Impossible," the second feature from the Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona, uses digital imagery, meticulous sound design and tried-and-true editing techniques to recreate both the violence of unleashed waters and the desolation that followed their assault on southern Thailand.

Hence the second needed change: a readiness by African governments to agree on programmes regionally, not state by state, and a willingness to pursue tried-and-tested methods that work.Here the evidence is mixed.

In the first verse alone, we have, "Tried to drop 'Another One,' you was itchin' to scrap / You exposed your ghostwriter, now you wish you were scrapped".

JAPAN TRIED TO negotiate the first trans-Pacific trade agreement exactly 400 years ago.

This season, there are numerous signs of "American Idol"'s willingness (or desperation) to shake up its time-tried formula, from the fourth judge to the elimination save.