Sentence examples for tried activating from inspiring English sources
Second, he said, he tried activating the repeater after a civilian at the trade center tried turning it on.
When workers on the rig tried to activate the well's blowout preventer, it failed.
The black boxes recorded Mr. Garzón screaming as he tried to activate the brake.
BP has said the crew tried to activate a blowout preventer on the sea floor, 5,000 feet below the surface.
Mr. Daoud then walked about a block into an alley, where he tried to activate the fake bomb by pressing a triggering mechanism.
Hājjī Mīrzā Āghāsī, a minister of Moḥammad Shah (reigned 1834 48), tried to activate the government to revive sources of production and to cement ties with lesser European powers, such as Spain and Belgium, as an alternative to Anglo-Russian dominance, but little was achieved.
Various models have tried to activate the accounts with mixed results.
On stage, the company tried to activate part of its self-driving parking technology, and it didn't operate.
I purchased the new Apple Iphone and tried to activate my service with AT&T via their online software.
We would fight anyone who ever tried to activate such a clause and we would win.
As McClatchy reports, following the outbreak of the original fire, "BP engineers tried to activate a huge piece of underwater safety equipment but failed because the device had been so altered that diagrams BP got from the equipment's owner didn't match the supposedly failsafe device's configuration".
