Sentence examples for tried usually from inspiring English sources

Soldiers who are tried usually get light sentences or are quietly disciplined in military hearings.

So it's not surprising that most smokers want to stop and four out of five have tried, usually many times.

The puke ring lent moral support to the occupiers and tried, usually with little success, to throw food up to them.

The resulting uncertainty led to shortages today of food and especially medicine as products vanished from shelves and bank depositors tried, usually in vain, to get their hands on dollars.

Between then and the end of his Presidency, he held three hundred and twenty-four of them, during which he tried, usually with good humor, to answer what he was asked.

Blackwell's book presents vivid descriptions of these wretched places, along with both their polluters and the crusaders who are trying — usually without success — to clean them up.

Those that try usually incur dreadful unintended consequences.

Concerns about minimal training and rapid turnover have led some parents and politicians to try, usually without success, to block TFA from their districts.

They also agreed that the 270 victims had all died in the crash, meaning that a relative of each did not have to take the stand as Scottish law -- under which the case is being tried -- usually requires.

Since the age of Marco Polo, Westerners have tried, and usually failed, to create profitable businesses with the Middle Kingdom.

I've tried, but usually end up ripping things down long before October 31 due to pure embarrassment.