Sentence examples for treasure trying from inspiring English sources

The Republicans will now be forced to spend valuable time and treasure trying to defend two governorships, Florida and New York, that until recently looked like shoo-ins.

Does it make sense, for example, to spend lives and treasure trying to eradicate "safe havens" in Afghanistan when Al Qaeda has so many other — well, options, from Sudan to Hamburg?

On that point, Hendrik Hertzberg, in his Comment last week, raised this question: Does it make sense, for example, to spend lives and treasure trying to eradicate "safe havens" in Afghanistan when Al Qaeda has so many other … options, from Sudan to Hamburg?

Warfare is violent, and folks spend enormous amounts of time, blood, and treasure trying to kill the unholy hell out of each other.

The loss of Sangin would be embarrassing for Western powers backing the Kabul government, since both the US and the UK have spent much blood and treasure trying to secure it in the past.

At various times, and with various degrees of success, he has sailed in search of sunken treasure, tried to broker foreign business deals and dabbled in journalism and fiction.

Which means that Julie will become involved in a centuries-old family feud, be threatened by mobsters and trapped in catacombs, decode clues to locate a treasure, try to determine just how her parents died, dispel an ancient curse and resist a suspicious contemporary Romeo.

When trying to find buried treasure try to look on isles in morning or really late at night.

whistlebinkies.com Katie MacKinnon The stretch of road from King's Theatre on Leven Street towards Morningside has a number of little treasures: trying and buying teas at Pekoe Tea (no 20) or, two doors up, getting all you need to prepare a complete chilli at Lupe Pintos.

Some critics have even called for the North Caucasus to be severed from Russia completely, a surprising turnaround given the amount of Russian blood and treasure spent trying to keep it.

Depp was excited by the possibility of reviving an old Hollywood genre, and found the script met his quirky sensibilities: the crew of the Black Pearl were not in search of treasure but trying to return it to lift a curse on them, and the traditional mutiny had already occurred.