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How to use the word tries in a Sentence? Page #9

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Greece will continue to be a dark cloud for the coming weeks as it tries to resolve its debt problems.

Sadiq Adatia

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It makes sense that the Republican candidates are out to critique, and Hillary Clinton tries not to say much.

Leon Aron

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The Saudi objectives in Yemen appear more about standing up to Iran and showing that it will fight back if it tries to expand its influence in the Arab world.

Michael Elleman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The issues we deal with are usually from someone who may be wanting to make a name for themselves and tries to harass or in some way antagonize an outlaw motorcycle gang member.

Town Marshal David Smith

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

So you see this girl going through pretty much the worst three days of her life, she tries to maintain face for most of it so ... I didn't really think about adjusting it to make it more masculine.

Emily Blunt

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The proposed changes to federal regulations add additional, fairly substantial burdens on petitioners, particularly citizen-scientists trying to stop a species from dying out. The proposal tries to shut that down and cut the public out.

Noah Greenwald

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The more (Argentina) tries to issue in local law, the more they are going to face legal challenges.

Siobhan Morden

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A leader first tries to listen, then tries to understand, then creates a common vision, and then together takes action for the realization.

Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

A writer tries to express those thoughts, which are inexpressible, with beauty and love.

Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

And anyone that tries to blame the kids are wrong in doing so. If you look at the hurt veterans, they are looking past the kids and toward the parents that are out of the frame.

Matthew Munson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Any time someone tries to stop hunting, it's so totally ridiculous.

Jason Schroeder

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

No matter how hard President Obama tries to set Hillary Clinton up to run for his third term, his tax and spend agenda continues to fail America’s shrinking middle class.

Allison Moore

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's not about custody. It's about child support. what he does when he's done with a relationship is he tries to eradicate the person completely from his life.

Elizabeth Kennedy

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

What he does when he's done with a relationship is he tries to eradicate the person completely from his life.

Elizabeth Kennedy

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It will remain an emergency exit per fire code. If anyone tries to access it, the door alarm will be activated and recorded on CCTV (closed-circuit television). The only personnel that will now have access to this door will be emergency responders (police and fire department).

Delta Air Lines

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The area that we visited ... that leads from the Delta break room to the baggage make-up area is being locked down, it will remain an emergency exit per fire code. If anyone tries to access it, the door alarm will be activated and recorded on CCTV (closed-circuit television). The only personnel that will now have access to this door will be emergency responders (police and fire department).

Reese McCranie

Found on CNN
9 years ago

ISIS takes their passports and if anyone tries defection from this, they will kill them immediately, the problem, it's not how to go inside the city of Raqqa. The problem is how to get out.

Abu Ibrahim al-Raqqawi

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The film's reception abroad proves its universality - it is understood everywhere, it evokes compassion for a person who finds himself in the grips of injustice and tries to maintain a sense of dignity.

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In the court of reason man is always a claimant and God is always a respondent. The original intention of the reason for creation of God is to make Him as a respondent as and when the need arises. Hence when a man is in trouble his reason tries to save him by acting as an arbitrator; the reason sitting as sole judge asks the man for his claims and makes the God to respond.

Thiruman Archunan

added by Thiruman Archunan
9 years ago

If a bill comes to my desk that tries to do any of these things, I will veto it.

President Obama

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It took about eight or 10 different tries we to make sure it was a similar texture to what someone would expect from their favorite cookie butter.

Peter Lind

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I pretty much cry myself to sleep every night worrying about where they are and if a police officer or any random individual tries to pull them over and isn't so nice and hurts them.

Tammy Martin

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Even an alert and careful student who tries the sweet-tasting cocktail containing many types of liquor cannot know how much alcohol it contains, yet another problem with alcohol is that it can be the vehicle for some other drug to be ingested, unknown to the drinker. Let's call this by its name: This is poisoning.

Teresa A. Sullivan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Therefore, if we want to reduce the financial devastation associated with illness, a sensible way to do it would be to strengthen the social safety net and reduce the cost of health care, the ACA tries to do both of these things, though we would need more evidence to know whether policies like the ACA can break the link between becoming ill and foreclosure.

Jason Houle

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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