Sentence examples for try to fortify from inspiring English sources

One question now is whether the Republicans will try to fortify their own 527's to match the Democrats.

Cashman did try to fortify the rotation before the All-Star break, putting together a deal for Cliff Lee before Seattle shipped him to Texas instead.

The report doesn't jump to tendentious conclusions unsupported by its collected evidence, it doesn't cover up or disregard key evidence, it doesn't try to fortify its case by ignoring recurring and extreme contradictions in the statements of those so far arrested.

Reich is trying to fortify the standard case for redistribution.

So the butler was trying to fortify his own position.

Realizing they could do little to improve the political climate, they are trying to fortify themselves with sharper tactics.

Unlike many conductors, Mr. Davis has not tried to fortify his artistic profile with surveys of the Beethoven symphonies.

And investing in threat assessment and intervention programs is probably more valuable than trying to fortify your local elementary school or hiring armed guards.

Thus, often "government had tried to fortify material development, but had ended up weakening the social and emotional development that underpins it".

Sometimes it seems that the inexhaustible tenor Plácido Domingo is trying to fortify his place in the operatic pantheon simply by doing more than anyone else ever has.

This winter, General Manager Steve Phillips tried to fortify a slumbering offense, adding 19 players to the 40-man roster, but Ordóñez remained a Met.