Sentence examples for was tried without from inspiring English sources

Fixing it was tried without any success.

"Wheel of Fortune" was tried without much success.

The case, a parade of experts giving technical testimony, was tried without a jury in front of Judge Sotomayor.

For this he was tried (without defence counsel), condemned and, on 8 January 1697, aged just 20 years old, hanged on a gibbet.

In practice, it was never clear that the security would be as expensive and cumbersome as city officials warned; another high-profile Guantánamo detainee, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, was tried without incident in a New York courtroom last year for plotting Al Qaeda's 1998 embassy attacks in Africa.

As Stinney's lawyer failed to request a change of location the boy was tried — without his family — in the local court with a baying mob outside the doors.

He was trying, without conviction, to sell black market cigarettes.

Lloyd Tysuir was trying, without much success, not to shake.

She was late, he said, because she was trying, without success, to put together the spy camera to tape the killing for future blackmail.

The story is told of a man who was trying without success to put together a map of the world.

That, however, though fine in theory, has already been tried, without much success in practice.