Sentence examples for were trying to scale from inspiring English sources

Enjoy yourself.' Then I went to the front of Spike Island, where kids without tickets were trying to scale the fence, and sorted as many of them out as I could in true Roses fashion.

All of the measures polled badly at the time, and the Medicaid cuts gave Democrats a potent narrative that Republicans were trying to scale back benefits for the most vulnerable Americans.

Bordainick: We were trying to scale a business that was very logistically complicated and we were always screwing up.

Three 15-year-old boys had to be rescued last month while they were trying to scale the east face, and 10 days later, another climber was rescued after he got stuck part of the way up.

So we're trying to scale up now.

Some principals, school superintendents and legislators are trying to scale back the grandeur.

We are just at the beginning of a new era in which we are trying to scale up nanostructured materials.

I'm trying to scale back and use mine only for tasks that are in some sense practical.

Aid groups are trying to scale up their operations, and the United Nations has begun airlifting emergency food.

"The way the Obama administration is trying to scale these technologies up is to get them more private-sector money," said Cuttino.

Many in Congress, as part of the negotiations over next year's federal budget, are trying to scale back payments to Medicare Advantage.