Sentence examples for was tried before from inspiring English sources
This was tried before, and failed miserably.
The last and only time it was tried before, 1966-69, it was not a success.
Yet when the fertiliser subsidy was tried before in Nigeria, it was a spectacular failure.
But Mr. Rowhani has already publicly dismissed the possibility of such a suspension, saying it was tried before, but in a different era.
But this was tried before, in 1998, and will do great harm again if fresh financing is not tied to dramatic changes in the way the banks are run.
The Iraq surge has worked better than what was tried before in that country; so for the U.S. military, which is always fighting the last war, the temptation to rely on "lessons learned" is overwhelming — even if in this case the last war still isn't over, and we are still far from having won it.
It has been tried before.
That has been tried before.
Three strikes has been tried before, too.
But such schemes have been tried before.
