Sentence examples for was trying to apply from inspiring English sources

Then, as a first-year graduate student at Stanford, he was trying to apply Einstein's general theory of relativity to the collision of two black holes.

In offering a long catalog of grievances with the government's approach in the antitrust case, Mr. Gates argued that the Justice Department was trying to apply an old- economy approach in a new economic era.

"Tell me: If you were planning to carry out surveillance on someone, would you hire for this task a professional, or would you hire the brothers Makhmudov, one of whom was trying to apply to graduate school, and the other of whom lugged fish at the Litkino market?" "I would hire professionals," Khadzhikurbanov said.

Although the letter made no indication that the government was trying to apply pressure on Anderson to testify, the lawyer said, the message was clear because it was signed by Matthew Parrella, an assistant United States attorney who is the lead prosecutor on the Balco investigation.

This was distasteful medicine and Mr Schleicher says that the US administration was deeply unhappy with the 2006 results and was trying to apply pressure on the OECD.

Edward explained the ease and lenience of requirements in the hiring process for nurses: I was trying to apply in other parts of the Middle East like Saudi, Qatar, and Oman but they have several considerations for hiring: the bed capacity of the hospital where you worked, the trainings that you attended and passed, etc.

The combined approach was tried to apply to the acceptance test and the in-service inspection conditions of graphite components in the High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR) as an example.

"Certainly, he's trying to apply pressure.

Wood is trying to apply the lesson to his writing.

One British source said: "We were trying to apply pressure, as were Australia and the Canadians.

Although he struggled to use a computer, he had been trying to apply for jobs online.