Sentence examples for was trying to define from inspiring English sources

Recently, I was trying to define the value of chaplaincy to a university.

"He was trying to define the word 'raising.' And I just said to myself, he's learned from the master".

Marshall's assessment came just as the national-security establishment was trying to define America's posture in a world without a Soviet counterweight.

Even as the medical establishment was trying to define gender through surgery, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts and psychologists contended that transsexuality and transvestitism resulted from psychological conditions.

"But when you think about it," Mr. Lum said, "he was trying to define himself as an African-American on a campus where we only had maybe five African-Americans" among 1,600 high school students.

At the same time as Koolhaas was trying to define the ultimate effects of globalisation on the city, identifying an alarming loss of identity, several architects (including the same Koolhaas) were reacting to this apparent flatness of architecture by elaborating what has lately been called iconic architecture.

And how do you deal with a defining trait of the people you are trying to define: their habit of making fun of worthy government proposals?

"They're trying to define themselves.

People are trying to define what 'defeat' means.

"He's trying to define himself," Mr. Salmore said.

That's the intersection you're trying to define".