Sentence examples for tried to codify from inspiring English sources
Schrader tried to codify some of those lessons.
Even ancient civilisations tried to codify the rules of war – jus in bello.
And big network operators, such as AT&T and Verizon will sue as they did successfully the last time the FCC tried to codify network neutrality in 2010.
Baltasar Gracián reduced conceptista refinement to an exact code in Agudeza y arte de ingenio (1642, 2nd ed. 1648; "Subtlety and the Art of Genius"); he also tried to codify in a series of treatises the art of living.
Toward that end, UNCTAD and the Group of 77 less-developed countries that promoted its establishment tried to codify principles of international trade and arrange agreements to stabilize commodity prices.
The Nazis confounded themselves with their ludicrous pseudo-intellectual racial purity laws, which eventually became so complex that you have to laugh at the bureaucrats who tried to codify and enforce them; so they sometimes pardoned "pure" Roma.
It is always a risky proposition when anyone tries to codify the spirit of a proudly independent, nonconformist scene.
The "successful" discussion from the oncology journal points to the obvious problem of trying to codify such practice.
He says he was getting pretty good at this. "So I thought I'd try to codify it," he says.
It's a type Ms. Pound is trying to codify as the "RoBo," or "rock 'n' roll bohemian," or "global nomad" (GloNo?).
In trying to codify the groovy neologisms of hippies ("'put on,' meaning to kid") he takes on an even more antiquated tone.
