Sentence examples for try to fasten from inspiring English sources

By acts of legislation and appropriation, Congress can try to fasten on the executive departments its notions of the urgency of the world crisis and of the government's responsibility for the common welfare, but it cannot really do more than pass out money and order that the money be spent within a stated period.

As a consequence, on contact it will deploy foot screws and harpoons to try to fasten its position.

If a coyote attacks you: Try to fasten your hands around its muzzle.[citation needed].

It should fit on the biggest adjustment, but will probably be too tight if you try to fasten it on the smallest size.

A good rule of thumb is that you should be able to fit no more than a fist under the back of the bra.It should fit on the biggest or middle adjustment, but will probably be too tight if you try to fasten it on the smallest size.

She became uneasy when she learned (on Twitter) that the entire Greenpeace team had been detained as they tried to fasten the pod to the rig.

He looks offside but the flag stays down and he reaches the ball before it crosses the line for a goal-kick, managing to hoick it back into the area where Defoe tries to fasten on to it.

From 1967 to 1993, Teddy Kollek, a charismatic mayor, tried to fasten the city to Israel by what Mr Wasserstein calls, perhaps a little generously, "the determined application of goodwill rather than force".

When British IT consultant Chris Norman boarded a train at Amsterdam airport on his way back to France last Friday, he did not expect to find himself, just over an hour later, splattered with blood and pinning down a gunman as he tried to fasten a cable tie around the man's hands with his teeth.

Home, not this one but the original one with her childhood bed, the window on the landing out of which she had watched the swirling storms of long-ago winters, her father bending over her to say good night, the lamplight in which her mother was holding out a wrist, trying to fasten a bracelet.

One person died while trying to fasten steel products on a ship.