Sentence examples for trying rather from inspiring English sources

Those failing to reach this at 16 will keep trying, rather than leaving.

And the French are trying, rather uncharacteristically, to avoid any hint of triumphalism.

His lab was trying rather to discover new antibiotics for fighting pathogens that are resistant to multiple drugs.

2.42pm GMT Over at the speed-skating rink, the man on the Tannoy is trying, rather unsuccessfully to get a Mexican wave going in the crowd.

But they acknowledge that Merck's insistence on trying rather than settling cases has raised the stakes in the litigation, and that marginal suits have so far proven difficult to win.

The tone throughout is moderately quirky rather than full-on teen-flick vulgarian... the movie's not overly amusing, never truly insightful and trying rather too hard to be cultish.

But it's important to at least try, rather than simply and uncritically accepting it.

It also sought to limit the number of suspects being tried – rather, some say, than implicate its own ranks.

Instead he tries, rather feebly, to make the tokens of political significance stand in for its substance.

The irony is that we know that strategy won't work, because Brown has tried rather too much of it.

They usually opt to try, rather than liquidate the firm.During the wave of bankruptcies in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the merits of this were more obvious.