To some of Bennet's aides, the rancor in the community seemed incoherent: the man was trying, after all, to help their children.
In a World Cup soccer match in 1982, West Germany and Austria appeared to stop trying after West Germany took a 1-0 learlyarly in the game.
They began trying after the 1988 passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, but were unable to reach the federally required compacts with former Gov. Pete Wilson.
Holmes met with little success in trying to take part in activities on the campus, or make friends, and he gave up trying after a while.
BASF, after seeking approvals for three of its potato varieties in Europe, gave up trying after a regulatory quest that took nearly four years.
For this young season, that has been Anderson, who is trying after all these years to create Jets' memories as significant as the ones he created in college.
More than that, she is smart enough to stay within her range — low, affectless, and dreamily tired, as though she were trying, after a long and whiskeyish evening, to sing herself to sleep.
Broadly limned, "Big Lake" works neither as a satire -- and it stops trying after the delivery of Josh's back story -- nor as an adventure in surrealist comedy, and it is tough to watch the strain for eccentricity.
It sometimes takes a lofty view as if trying, after the event, to make sense of Pat's slaughter of so many townfolk, a number that 'might be around the 55, 55 mark', most of them destined to fertilise his garden.
But of all the candidates, Democrats say, Dr. Dean may have the trickiest road to walk: trying, after establishing himself in Vermont as highly skeptical of gun control, to appeal to a decidedly liberal Democratic electorate.
He was also trying, after an initial stretch in office that left many Americans questioning his degree of concern for them, to put an extra emphasis on the compassion that he links to his conservatism.
