Sentence examples for trying rather hard from inspiring English sources

Roman Abramovich, a Russian billionaire, has ploughed more than £400m into Chelsea since he bought it in 2003.Yet behind the very public changes in the ownership of English football are signs of a much more unexpected shift: many of the top clubs are trying rather hard to live within their means.

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.

Focus on how hard they tried rather than specific results.

If something doesn't work out the way you'd hoped, review the course of events in your head and try to focus on what you did right or how hard you tried, rather than "where you messed up".

"He tried hard, ran hard, won hard.

Dr Sam Wass, a developmental psychologist based at the University of East London and Cambridge University, recently told The Independent that studies show that parents should praise their children for trying hard rather than being clever.

"I was trying to be in this rather hard and painful world of avant-garde music, and here was Updike making people happy.

"Maybe there is an element in those final few holes of Lee trying too hard, rather than just letting it happen," Jacklin, 68, told BBC Sport.

(It's out of print, which is a disgrace, and rather hard to obtain but try an inter-library loan).

China's new emperor, President Hu Jintao, is presiding over this twilight zone and trying hard -- rather successfully -- to convince the population that he's a new kind of leader.

On Friday, he sent his team an e-mail urging the players to focus on getting to.500 rather than trying too hard to win for him.