Sentence examples for tried erecting from inspiring English sources

Exasperated highway professionals have actually tried erecting anti-rubbernecking screens around the scenes of accidents, but the vehicle toting the screen typically gets caught in the traffic jam it's meant to prevent.

It was as if I'd suggested that this year for Hanukkah, we should try erecting a shrine to a portly man in a red suit in the living room (he'd wear a yarmulke, of course, so we know that this isn't a Christmas decoration).

So he tried to erect a fortress by playing 20... g6 and 21... Ng7.

In the run-up to local elections on October 31st, the government tried to erect new barriers to opposition parties.

But one or two economists and academics have tried to erect an intellectual case against deficit spending.

As bad artists always will, the film-buff directors have tried to erect opportunism into a virtue.

Klan groups have often tried to erect crosses on Fountain Square during the holidays, causing protests from blacks and other residents.

The court sided with Afrikaner groups, ruling that the Tshwane Metro Council had tried to erect the new signs before their legitimacy could be argued in court.

When one of the Slovak papers, SME, tried to erect a pay wall on its own a few years ago — something that a growing number of newspapers are doing elsewhere — it failed miserably.

When Citibank tried to erect a 16-story bully on the corner of 91st and Madison, she pulled the plug on the project until the developers shrink it into harmony with its surroundings.

On a recent Saturday, as workmen tried to erect a second buffer gate at the entrance, patients pulled it down, jumped up and down on it and repeatedly heaved a chunk of concrete on it.