Sentence examples for try to fast from inspiring English sources

Speaking to AFP, he said: "People can try to fast for 19 hours but not handle it.

I knew that it would be the first Ramadan I'd try to fast for the full thirty days.

But if Jeb Bush Republicans and Obama Democrats try to fast track a more comprehensive bill, they will be reminded that there are other sorts of Republicans and Democrats, and that bipartisanship cuts both ways.

In this spirit, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Rt Rev Nicholas Holtam, had proposed that church member should try to fast on the first day of every month, but this was defeated after Archdeacon Jan MacFarlane pointed out that a "mischievous journalist" might ring round a selection of bishops and synod members after a few months and ask if they were actually observing the fast.

"If the OPLC try to fast track the whole process they will be challenged again.

That's why I think everyone should make an effort and try to fast.

They don't try to fast-forward to utopia.

"The biggest thing Perry did on energy was to try to fast-track 11 coal plants," said Jim Marston, the Texas head of the Environmental Defense Fund.

"We're going to continue to try to fast-track this whole process," he added, "but we understand that's the key word, it's a process".

We tried to fast at Yom Kippur".

"He was trying to fast forward the movie".