Sentence examples for try and frustrate from inspiring English sources

Tomorrow's match, at Ashton Gate, will be a very different challenge with England expected to dominate against opponents who will sit deep and try and frustrate.

We came up with a plan to try and frustrate him with the field while encouraging him to play his shots because that is a way to get out players of that calibre".

Anything to try and frustrate you.

"We came here to try and frustrate and get in their faces and make it difficult for them and we didn't do that," he said.

"The game plan was to try and frustrate and hold them as long as we could and try and nick something on the break.

Opposition MPs hoped the legislation would eventually run out of parliamentary time, speaking at length to try and frustrate its progress, but Tory MPs have accused them of deliberately filibustering.

Warren Bennis, a leader of leaders, says that the most reliable predictor of success is a leader's capacity to find meaning in negative events and to learn from the most trying and frustrating situations: "Put another way, the skills required to conquer adversity and emerge stronger and more committed than ever are the same ones that make for extraordinary leaders".

The political head-butting led the opposition New Democratic Party, which had been employing parliamentary tricks to try and defeat and frustrate legislation that would make it easier to outsource manufacturing jobs, to engage in a silent protest.

They keep trying, and get frustrated.

The league accused Rodriguez not just of using testosterone and human growth hormone for many years but also of trying to "obstruct and frustrate" its investigation of the South Florida anti-aging clinic, Biogenesis, at the center of the scandal.

"I don't think that it's right that a fund manager with deep pockets and friends in high legal places gets to go to court and try to frustrate that decision," he told the BBC.