Sentence examples for try and depress from inspiring English sources

"The idea of waging a campaign to try and depress the business climate of one state so your state can benefit as a result is something that Missourians don't appreciate," said Jason Kander, a Democrat who is Missouri's secretary of state.

Confirm that it is standing up, and try to depress it with a very gentle touch from a clean, soft object.

Most people are under the impression that blanket sleepers are only designed for infants and toddlers and that isn't at all true - and these people will go to great lengths to try and make these people depressed to the point that the wearer won't want to wear them during the day.

Rather than reaching out to moderates, independents, and other groups he would need to bring over to win a majority in November, the Journal article said, Trump now "plans to renew the nationalist themes that built his base and amplify his no-holds-barred attacks against Hillary Clinton to try to depress Democratic voter turnout".

The paramedics moved out of the way and I knelt beside my brother and tried to depress his chest.

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Damn I'm bored now!" Fineman says that right now the Dems are going to try to depress the turnout amoing independents by pointing out how awful Sharron Angle is.

This country is an extraordinary -- I get choked up -- this is an incredible, beautiful country... .. "That little idiot box off in the corner trying to depress you and make you feel like this is a horrible country and everybody believes evil things about the president... it is just not true.

Former White House green jobs czar Van Jones -- best known, perhaps, for his messy departure from the Obama administration -- urged a room full of student progressive activists on Wednesday to turn off "the little idiot box" [cable news] that was trying to "depress them" and to ignore the "fearmongers" who peddle the "politics of division".

China’s powerful Communist Party leadership has a cultural history of trying to depress the economy (and hence stocks) in varying ways two years before elections, which occur every five years.

And we weren't trying to depress people, hell, they were living it, they already knew but we were trying to describe it and were certainly not alone... we felt as though a part of it was the folks in charge of the political structure.