Sentence examples for try to put down from inspiring English sources

It continues to try to put down an armed rebellion in the east led by military commanders who have refused to join a national army.

At the end of 2006, Somalia's UN-backed government asked Ethiopia to send troops into Somalia to try to put down an Islamist insurgency.

The rebels hoped that Libyan government troops would try to put down the uprising using large weapons like antiaircraft guns — making it easier for NATO warplanes to spot the muzzle flashes of Colonel Qaddafi's troops.

"I made a very conscious decision in writing The Fever – and anybody is welcome to laugh but it was actually quite a painful thing to do – that I was going to try to put down what I believed," he says.

I'm very pleased to have just voted for Hillary Clinton, who I feel will stick up for a multitude of people, rather than try to put down and oppress "bodies".

Instead, try to put down the bones of your poem.

Andrus tried to put down a bunt.

They're always trying to put down the Grand Old Party.

Believe me I'm not trying to put down technology.

I'm not trying to put down our achievements, but it just wouldn't have happened".

But Egypt is nonetheless stumbling as it tries to put down robust democratic roots.