Sentence examples for try to characterize from inspiring English sources

"Governor, don't try to characterize my position," Mr. Romney said.

They will try to characterize the case as being politically motivated.

But go on, try to characterize these races as rational and wholesome entertainment after watching Sunday's crash.

John and Yoko are both radical pacifists, but beyond that it is pointless to try to characterize their views in ideological terms.

Ms. O'Donnell's lawyers are expected to try to characterize Gruner & Jahr as desperate to make the magazine look more successful than it was, both to keep advertisers content and to prevent Ms. O'Donnell from exercising a contractual right that would have let either her or Gruner & Jahr get out of the venture if the magazine's losses exceeded $4.2 million.

"But I think the Cuban people heard me say, 'This is in your hands.' And I suspect that made it more difficult for some of the hard-liners on the island to try to characterize anything that I said as yet another gesture of Yankee imperialism".

Both sides today tried to characterize the breakdown as temporary.

In Mr. Loengard's book, Mr. Silk tried to characterize his aesthetic sensibility.

We are trying to characterize the different kind of variables that we see in these stars.

The players, naturally, have tried to characterize this as hypocrisy: if the game has become disturbingly dangerous, why play more?

"I was simply trying to characterize the music and place it in a broader social and musical context".