Sentence examples for try to substantiate from inspiring English sources

Little effort is ever made to try to substantiate mules' claims of coercion.

He set a March 26 deadline for the doctors to rewrite their cases to try to substantiate such allegations under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, RICO.

Both the Broadway and the off-Broadway production try to substantiate an unpromising bit of literary fluff, highlighting the poem's stale stereotypes and its lack of plotting.

Like reporters, the two monks gather tips and try to substantiate them, passing on what they find out to N.G.O.s, media outlets, and agencies of Tibet's government-in-exile.

Andy Coulson instructed a senior executive on his newspaper to try to substantiate a tip-off about George Best's son by telling him to "do his phone", the jury in the phone-hacking trial was told by the prosecution.

"The committee selectively used documents to try to substantiate a point of view where ample and contrary evidence existed," they write.

Mr. Hood's lawyers responded to that finding by saying they had long tried to substantiate rumors of the affair.

(Trying to substantiate this story, my research assistant and I had a tense but inconclusive encounter with a heavily-armed Neopolitan in his home on the side of the volcano. We were not offered tea).

Mr. Kelley, 43, is also accused of using at least two dozen passages from the work of other news organizations without attribution and trying to subvert USA Today's investigation by concocting scripts -- complete with phony identities -- for associates to follow if his editors tried to substantiate his work, the newspaper said.

Yet on Thursday evening, the White House was still trying to substantiate Ms. Rice's argument earlier in the day that an Aug. 6 intelligence briefing prepared for Mr. Bush about the deadly mix of Qaeda terrorists and airplanes contained nothing about "time, place, how or where" that the president could have acted upon.

They are stuffed full of the children of the elite, going out of their way to recruit the offspring of alumni, celebrities, potential donors and the well-connected, and are increasingly out of reach of the white working class.I have tried to substantiate these arguments in several articles in The Economist, particularly "Ever higher society, ever harder to ascend" and "Poison ivy".