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| The defense lawyers tried to impeach the witness's testimony by forcing him to admit that he had changed his story. |
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| His political adversaries tried to prevent him from winning the nomination. |
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| She tried to reach the vase but overbalanced herself and fell off the stool. |
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| He tried to learn about the latest bands so he could impress his hip new college friends. |
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| He tried to use argumentation to convince his opponents, rather than force. |
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| Scientists tried to explain some peculiarities in the results of the experiment. |
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| Several managers have tried to increase the speed and accuracy of the workers. |
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| They've tried to improve their procedures, with varying degrees of success. |
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| The company has tried to muzzle its employees by forbidding them to speak to the press. |
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| She claims that her boss tried to fondle her at the office Christmas party. |
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| She tried to rationalize her grandson's strange behavior by blaming it on the boy's father. |
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| She tried to remain as inconspicuous as possible so that no one would see her there. |
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| She was unfriendly and as cold as ice when I tried to talk to her earlier. |
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| The documents indicate that Dr. Murray tried to revive Mr. Jackson with flumazenil, which reverses the effects of benzodiazepines like lorazepam. |
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| The previous attempts foundered when they tried to take this gendarme directly. |
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| I should never have tried to grind the computer system to a halt. Firstly I got sacked, and then my boss gave me a right earful. |
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| The guy went ballistic when I tried to tell him he couldn't return the socks if the package had been opened. |
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| Henry had tried to have John officially proclaimed King of Ireland, but Pope Lucius III would not agree. |
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| He had tried bullying, and without success. He would try cajoling and temptation. |
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| He tried to push Kissu into his cage, but the cougar charged back out and sank his canines into Wilson's rump. |
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| One child stood as king of the hill, and tried to withstand the pushes and shoves of his challengers. |
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| The car thief fought with an officer and tried to drown a police dog before being shot while escaping. |
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| I have tried to explain the sense of dynamis fundamental to Aristotle's philosophy. |
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| An upscale version of this tried and true method of providing windowsill humidity is the use of plastic 'egg crating' instead of gravel. |
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| Even with an elephant dose of sedative, the horse was still kicking at him when he tried to clean the wound. |
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| She was the empath who would betray empaths if she got the chance. So they'd tried to fix things so that she didn't get the chance. |
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| But when they knew they were going back they lost his paperwork. No just his. Everycunt who'd tried to leave. |
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| The solicitor tried every trick in the book to get me to sign the contract, but I wasn't having any of it! |
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| I tried if a pendulum would swing faster, or continue swinging longer, in case of exsuction of the air. |
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| Almost all techniques of film-craft have been tried out in Hollywood, and the result has been near perfection of cinematic art. |
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| It is to be tried in the so-called floxed Atlas, with the usual kerosene type fuel. |
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| He tried to bring the Tories to his side by making concessions but failed because he still refused to endorse the Test Act. |
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| Impeachments are tried by the House of Lords, where a simple majority is necessary to convict. |
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| On 25 February 1723 a servant who tried to awaken Wren from his nap found that he had died. |
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| A new trial was not commenced because Argyll had previously been tried and sentenced to death. |
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| On 11 December, James tried to flee to France, allegedly first throwing the Great Seal of the Realm into the River Thames. |
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| Coming out second best then, he then tried a jinky dribble from right to left, only to find McCann standing in his way again. |
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| The opposition used this resource to mobilise public opinion against the monarchy, which in turn tried to repress the underground literature. |
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| Riley lowered his eyebrows and crossed his arms and tried to look non-judgy even if he felt a little judgy. |
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| When passing a Whig club, the coach came under attack from a group of men who tried to assault Pitt. |
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| When news of this spread, it was assumed Fox and his associates had tried to bring down Pitt by any means. |
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| Subsequently, in 1794 Pitt's administration tried three of them for treason but lost. |
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| At the Battle of Maloyaroslavets the French tried to reach Kaluga, where they could find food and forage supplies. |
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| When his back was to the wall in 1814 he tried to reopen peace negotiations on the basis of accepting the Frankfurt proposals. |
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| A kabaragoya, scenting food, tried to drive away the crows, slashing at them with its tail. |
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| Caracciolo was tried by royalist Neapolitan officers and sentenced to death. |
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| Ney therefore tried to break Wellesley's centre with a cavalry charge alone. |
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| When the policeman tried to take Gunn into custody he defended himself with a kalsomine brush to the great detriment of the officer's uniform. |
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| Fighting back panic, she tried to keep her cool and find a way out from under the rubble. |
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| Some young thugs tried to kick her door down last night. She was terrified. |
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| During his conduct of the war, Edward tried to circumvent parliament as much as possible, which caused this edict to be passed. |
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| He tried for the Kensington and Chelsea seat after the death of Alan Clark, but did not make the shortlist. |
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| He got a few knockbacks today when he tried to give his resume out at the local shops. |
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| Indictable only offences such as murder and rape must be tried on indictment in the Crown Court. |
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| The last trial of a peer in the House of Lords was in 1935, when Lord de Clifford was tried for motor manslaughter. |
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| I gave myself a mental shakedown, tried to suppress my ladyboner and pushed past him. |
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| He lamely tried to lie his way out of the situation, but he wasn't really trying and no-one believed him. |
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| However, Edward proceeded to treat Balliol as a vassal, and tried to exert influence over Scotland. |
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| In a makeshift court lasting only one day, over 500 men were tried and the majority sentenced to death. |
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| Over the years she'd tried to tell himself that his uptown girl was just another lay. |
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| Parliament tried to regulate this and ban the unofficial traders from the Change streets. |
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| Here the leather-legginged boy laughed very heartily, and then tried to look as if it was somebody else, whereat Mr. Winkle frowned majestically. |
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| It tried to keep a fixed exchange rate, and attempted to deal with inflation and sterling weakness by credit and exchange controls. |
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| In January 1645 a Royalist force tried to recapture the bridge and destroy it. |
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| Newton tried unsuccessfully to obtain one of the two fellowships that exempted the holder from the ordination requirement. |
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| In 1787, 1789, and 1790, Dissenters again tried to repeal the Test and Corporation Acts. |
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| Priestley tried to obtain restitution from the government for the destruction of his Birmingham property, but he was never fully reimbursed. |
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| Priestley tried to continue his scientific investigations in America with the support of the American Philosophical Society. |
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| They had tried to get more people and fund more bombes through the proper channels, but they were getting nowhere. |
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| In 1952, he tried to implement it on a Ferranti Mark 1, but lacking enough power, the computer was unable to execute the program. |
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| He tried to climb into the carriage, but he gripped the open door, which swung back, causing him to lose his grip. |
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| Subsequent writers like Ruzar Briffa and Karmenu Vassallo tried to estrange themselves from the rigidity of formal themes and versification. |
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| As emperor, Domitian assumed totalitarian characteristics, thought he could be a new Augustus, and tried to make a personal cult of himself. |
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| I tried to get Michele's attention at the party, but she looked right through me! |
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| I tried reading the instruction manual but many of the steps were unfortunately lost in translation. |
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| I tried for ages to find a pair of blue suede shoes, but didn't have any luck. |
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| Since the 1990s, the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages has tried to standardise the learning of languages across Europe. |
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| During the First World War, eleven men were tried in private and shot by firing squad at the Tower for espionage. |
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| However, in March, 2016, Prince Andrew ignored these rules and tried to gain access to the park by ramming the gates in his car. |
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| As they are considered a type of explosive, offenders can in principle be tried before military courts, though this is unusual in practice. |
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| As part of Richard's programme of asserting his authority, he also tried to cultivate the royal image. |
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| In his visits to Paris in his last years van Dyck tried to obtain the commission to paint the Grande Gallerie of the Louvre without success. |
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| From the death of Augustus in AD 14 until about 200, Roman authors emphasized style and tried new and startling ways of expression. |
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| Some earlier Latin poets tried to make up for this deficiency by creating new compound words, as the Greeks had done. |
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| Church leaders frequently tried to place restrictions on jousts and tournaments, which at times ended in the death of the loser. |
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| He was still a soldier in the army of freedom, and still tried to enlighten and civilize those who were impatiently waiting for his death. |
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| Savage's friends tried to help him by attempting to persuade him to move to Wales, but Savage ended up in Bristol and again fell into debt. |
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| To overcome these feelings, Johnson tried to constantly involve himself with various activities, but this did not seem to help. |
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| He tried to get the bottle from Severn on the voyage but Severn wouldn't let him have it. |
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| Payne accepted the rejection and tried without success to talk his friend Irving into proposing himself. |
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| However, he remained preoccupied with his first wife's death and tried to overcome his remorse by writing poetry. |
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| Orwell was now working on Keep the Aspidistra Flying, and also tried unsuccessfully to write a serial for the News Chronicle. |
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| She tried not to be flattered, knowing this rake could talk a dog off a meat wagon. |
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| Adolph tried to steer his son away from composition, hoping that he would have a career as a pianist. |
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| At the outbreak of the First World War, Holst tried to enlist but was rejected as unfit for military service. |
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| After his death, MGM tried to continue with Romance of the Pink Panther and offered the role of Clouseau to Dudley Moore, who turned it down. |
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| Ted Andrews twice, while drunk, tried to get into bed with his stepdaughter, resulting in Andrews fitting a lock on her door. |
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| In Europe it resulted in a move from a winter sport to a summer one as the new Super League competition tried to expand its market. |
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| Unfortunately, it seemed Honda tried to accomplish too much at one time and the experiment failed. |
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| In subsequent years, the Renault family tried to have the nationalisation rescinded by French courts and receive compensation. |
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| In addition to territorial disputes, the League also tried to intervene in other conflicts between and within nations. |
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| After Sweden permanently broke away from the personal union, Denmark tried on several occasions to reassert control over its neighbour. |
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| Spain tried to use its armies to fight back but had no help from European powers. |
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| Several relegation or qualification systems have been tried in order to limit the number of countries participating in the contest at one time. |
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| Opposition to his attempts to enforce Anglican practices reached a flashpoint when he tried to introduce a Book of Common Prayer. |
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| Charles's confrontation with the Scots came to a head in 1639, when he tried and failed to coerce Scotland by military means. |
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| James saw Covenanters as troublemakers and initially tried to end their influence in Scotland. |
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| They were arrested and imprisoned in Newgate, and subsequently transferred to Edinburgh Castle and tried for high treason. |
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| Jurors would be selected by the sheriffs and British soldiers would be tried outside the colony for alleged offenses. |
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| Burgoyne tried to outflank the Americans but was checked at the first battle of Saratoga in September. |
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| I popped a minipretzel into my mouth and tried to move my legs. Wishful thinking. With my tray table down, they were wedged in from every angle. |
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| The Congress tried to handle administrative affairs through legislative committees, which proved inefficient. |
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| It was first tried in small scale by Captain Alexander Read in the areas that were taken over from the wars with Tipu Sultan. |
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| He tried to mirror Elvis's life. He copied his fashion and his mannerisms, and he even went to live in Graceland. |
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| He became a great hero to German conservatives, who erected many monuments to his memory and tried to emulate his policies. |
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| She tried instigating uprisings in India, and sent a mission to Afghanistan urging her to join the war on the side of Central powers. |
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| Both sides tried to break the stalemate using scientific and technological advances. |
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| In Ireland itself, the IRB tried an armed revolt in 1867 but, as it was heavily infiltrated by police informers, the rising was a failure. |
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| To offset the effects of the high exchange rate, the export industries tried to cut costs by lowering workers' wages. |
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| In the Spanish Civil War, the Luftwaffe in the Condor Legion tried out air fighting tactics and their new aeroplanes. |
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| The Luftwaffe also tried using small formations of bombers as bait, covering them with large numbers of escorts. |
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| Following the use of unrestricted submarine warfare by Germany in the First World War, countries tried to limit, even abolish, submarines. |
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| The rest of the Chinese troops tried to return to Yunnan through remote mountainous forests and out of these, at least half died. |
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| The Japanese tried first to relieve the garrison at Meiktila and then to recapture the town and destroy its defenders. |
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| In the worst cases children deteriorated in inappropriate places while parents tried desperately to get the child home. |
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| After being bombarded with stones and petrol bombs from nationalists, the RUC, backed by loyalists, tried to storm the Bogside. |
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| From 1972 onward, paramilitaries were tried in juryless Diplock courts to avoid intimidation of jurors. |
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| Members of the security forces tried to obstruct the Stevens investigation. |
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| However in 1980, she reverses this priority and tried to cut the defence budget. |
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| The union tried an illegal secondary boycott and was fined in court, losing all its assets which had been used for pensions. |
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| She gave weak support to US President Jimmy Carter who tried to punish the USSR with economic sanctions. |
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| Massoud tried to initiate a nationwide political process with the goal of national consolidation. |
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| Similarly, the House of Lords was once the court that tried peers charged with high treason or felony. |
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| If Parliament was not in session, then peers could be tried in a separate court, known as the Lord High Steward's Court. |
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| Since then, no Sovereign has tried to impose a Prime Minister on Parliament. |
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| The miners tried to continue alone, but without TUC support had eventually to give in. |
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| A further separation was made in 1815 with the creation of a lesser Jury Court to allow certain civil cases to be tried by jury. |
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| Simpson was held civilly liable in 1997 for wrongful death even after being tried and acquitted in 1995 of murder. |
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| Meanwhile, in India, the Mughal Empire, with the support of the French, tried to crush a British attempt to conquer Bengal. |
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| In July 1855, the allied squadron tried to go past Taganrog to Rostov on Don, entering the River Don through the Mius River. |
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| In the same month, the Western Allied Baltic Fleet tried to destroy heavily defended Russian dockyards at Sveaborg outside Helsinki. |
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| Copernicus' 1543 work on the heliocentric model of the solar system tried to demonstrate that the sun was the center of the universe. |
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| Novelty was tried again the following day, was withdrawn after a joint failed again, and Rocket was declared the winner. |
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| A second locomotive was tried in Camborne and, at the beginning of 1803, in London. |
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| In his twenties he tried to create diamonds by heating graphite and shorted out Glasgow's electricity supply. |
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| Some researchers have tried to clarify the idea of race by equating it to the biological idea of the clade. |
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| Doesn't matter, you'd have your lips on it and I'd tell everyone how you tried to mouth rape me. |
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| In 1948 the Government of Pakistan tried to impose Urdu as the sole state language in Pakistan, starting the Bengali language movement. |
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| Traditional grammarians tried to group the various suffixes into eight cases corresponding to the cases used in Sanskrit. |
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| In spite of the conditions, islanders tried to rescue the passengers and crew. |
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| Despite their failure to be tried as temporal peers in the House of Lords, it remained unclear whether the Lords Spiritual were indeed peers. |
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| He tried to demonstrate the universality of human appetites for corporeal pleasures. |
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| After defeating Russia, the Germans tried to win in the spring of 1918 before the millions of American soldiers arrived. |
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| I have always tried to interpret his plays with as much humor and humanity as possible. |
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| Wells was a friend of many years, and tried to intervene when Barrie's marriage fell apart. |
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| Gilbert, Sullivan and Carte tried for many years to control the American performance copyrights over their operas, without success. |
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| Although Meaden tried to promote the single, it failed to reach the top 50 and the band reverted to calling themselves the Who. |
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| Clapton and Boyd tried unsuccessfully to have children, even trying in vitro fertilisation in 1984, but were faced instead with miscarriages. |
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| I tried to thank her but she just hugged me and told me not to say anything. |
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| According to Pliny the Elder, the realism of his paintings was such that birds tried to eat the painted grapes. |
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| In fact, people who even used a name or tried to maintain any continuity of identity at all were generally mocked as namefags. |
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| This caused reoccuring tensions as the Football League and its clubs tried to impose their authority over the national associations. |
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| All the food on the menu looked delicious, so I tried to narrow down my choices to only healthy foods. |
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| The Sikh leaders of the Singh Sabha worked to offer a clear definition of Sikh identity and tried to purify Sikh belief and practice. |
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| The doctor who had served as his tour guide, Professor Mike Besser, tried unsuccessfully to save Smith's life. |
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| After the Norman Conquest, William the Conqueror tried to rule England using the traditional system but eventually modified it to his own liking. |
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| This provision enshrines the concept of autrefois convict, that no one convicted of an offence can be tried or punished a second time. |
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| By contrast, a person who had been acquitted of a lesser offence could not be tried for an aggravated form even if new evidence became available. |
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| Other versions have been tried but this version is the one used at the Scottish Rugby games and other ceremonies. |
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| However, when Witkamp tried to get an official endorsement to his competition, the UEFA president turned it down. |
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| When Humphrey de Bohun tried to take back Brycheiniog, which was granted to Llywelyn by the Treaty of Montgomery, Mortimer supported de Bohun. |
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| Henry tried to use his royal authority leniently, hoping to appease the more hostile barons and maintain peace in England. |
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| In that same year Simon tried to persuade Joan, Countess of Flanders to marry him. |
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| Edward called for hoarders to release food, and tried to encourage both internal trade and the importation of grain, but with little success. |
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| Lambert had previously tried to convert the town's old railway station into a hotel and museum, employing international architect Richard Rogers. |
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| Plaintiffs with nontried cases receive their claimed amount multiplied by the ratio of awarded damages to claimed damages in the tried subset. |
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| Most matters were tried by a county court judge, and where necessary, a jury. |
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| The Bank of Greece tried to adopt deflationary policies to stave off the crises that were going on in other countries, but these largely failed. |
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| It was his first attempt at cooking, but I tried it and it was not half bad. |
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| Other paths had looked as promising and had led nowhither. Nevertheless, she tried this one. |
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| In 1913, when Roberts's mother was dying, his brother Dan tried to see him to ask him to visit his mother. |
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| The MP tried to arrest them, but Louis forcefully argued the pair out of the situation. |
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| In its flattering way, the press tried to invest this habit of Bush's with the sense that it was indicative of a particularly sharp wit. |
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| The hippo heard us, and, like a baseball player caught off base, tried to get back to the river. |
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| Ham reportedly tried on many occasions to contact Polley by telephone during the early months of 1975, but was never able to reach him. |
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| We tried to start a company, but we couldn't seem to get it off the ground. |
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| The band tried hiring two other guitarists, another Richard Jones and Glenn Hyde. |
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| In this series Gilbert tried out jobs as a farmer, butler, tattoo artist and firefighter. |
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| Hundreds of civilians were shot or drowned as they tried to escape the carnage by fleeing across the River Slaney. |
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| Later biologists have tried to refine Mayr's definition with the recognition and cohesion concepts, among others. |
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| In one instance, killer whales tried to tip ice floes on which a dog team and photographer of the Terra Nova Expedition were standing. |
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| The French Navy tried to stop the protest in several ways, including assaulting David McTaggart. |
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| Two German generals were later tried and executed for their roles in the killing of 3,000 of the island's inhabitants. |
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| Many locals, merchant and noble alike, envied the power of the league and tried to diminish it. |
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| French leaders, such as Louis XIV and Napoleon Bonaparte, tried with varying degrees of success to annex lands west of the Rhine. |
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| In the years about 1400, the Free City of Bremen tried to rule Standland and Butjadingen. |
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| I tried a similar procedure for our stations, but the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. |
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| He tried to encourage birdlife by planting trees and hollowing out trunks for owls to nest in. |
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| Some eminent ornithologists such as Pierce Brodkorb tried to keep the debate alive but the ICZN's solution has been satisfactory. |
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| In 1848 the expedition abandoned the two ships and its members tried to escape south across the tundra by sledge. |
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| While Franklin and McClure tried to explore the passage by sea, Rae explored by land. |
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| The other German ships tried to refloat her, but decided to scuttle her instead when they became aware of an approaching Russian intercept force. |
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| Each tried to swallow the region and to merge it with their spheres of influence. |
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| He slipped off into light fog and for several days tried to escape the superior forces. |
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| Pompey and Crassus had been at odds for a decade, so Caesar tried to reconcile them. |
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| According to Roman law, she was tried by her husband before her kinsmen, and was acquitted. |
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| He tried to clinch and gouge, but another right hook to the jaw sent him down and out. |
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| I have tried everything from yoga to dancing to gymming, but I can't be consistent with anything. Actually, I'm okay without working out. |
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| The curious misogyny which chequered Maupassant's gynomania seems to have tried hard to express itself in her portrait. |
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| The headless horseman harrowed Ichabod Crane as he tried to reach the bridge. |
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| In 685 it was invaded by Caedwalla, who tried to replace the inhabitants with his own followers. |
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| I wonder how many of the readers of AMERICAN GARDENING have tried the Iceberg lettuce. |
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| Petronius was unable to muster any effective response and was killed by a mob as he tried to flee the city. |
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| In desperation the Council tried a different strategy, offering an amnesty to thieves if they paid compensation to their victims. |
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| William remained in England after his coronation and tried to reconcile the native magnates. |
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| Henry tried to maintain a sophisticated household that combined hunting and drinking with cosmopolitan literary discussion and courtly values. |
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| In early 1174, Henry's enemies appeared to have tried to lure him back into England, allowing them to attack Normandy in his absence. |
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| Walker tried hard to close with his opponent, and infight, but by using both hands to good advantage Fus. Scott held his own. |
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| The financial demands of the Hundred Years' War were enormous, and the king and his ministers tried different methods of covering the expenses. |
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| John pursued the Black Prince, who tried to avoid battling the French king's superior force. |
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| The Black Prince tried to recover his losses by raising taxes in Aquitaine, which prompted them to appeal to the King of France. |
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| France was a opportune ally of the Scots as English Kings had for some time tried to subjugate the area. |
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| It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach. |
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| She never let anyone challenge her authority as queen, even though many people, who felt she was weak and should be married, tried to do so. |
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| A Japanese man who is tried before a German court is assisted by an interpreter in making oral statements. |
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| The Royal Navy was also involved in an incident involving Somali pirates in November 2008, after the pirates tried to capture a civilian vessel. |
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| Pope Julius died and his successor, Pope Paul IV, declared war on Philip and recalled Pole to Rome to have him tried as a heretic. |
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| However, Thomas Seymour continued scheming to control the royal family and tried to have himself appointed the governor of the King's person. |
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| The headright system tried to solve the labor shortage by providing colonists with land for each indentured servant they transported to Virginia. |
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| When the family wrapped up my father's will, no one tried to make me feel involved. |
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| The Dutch had a large force at their disposal but when they tried to take Manila, they were defeated at the Battles of La Naval de Manila. |
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| In 1858 the Vietnamese emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty felt threatened by the French influence and tried to expel the missionaries. |
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| Those who still supported Charles' place on the throne, such as the army leader and moderate Fairfax, tried once more to negotiate with him. |
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| Charles' confrontation with the Scots came to a head in 1639, when Charles tried and failed to coerce Scotland by military means. |
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| Thus weakened, the remaining body of MPs, known as the Rump, agreed that Charles should be tried on a charge of treason. |
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| When William arrived on 5 November 1688, James lost his nerve, declined to attack the invading Dutch and tried to flee to France. |
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| For example, instead of executing Archbishop Cranmer for treason for supporting Queen Jane, she had him tried for heresy and burned at a stake. |
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| William then tried to personally bestow the pallium to Anselm, an act connoting the church's subservience to the throne, and was again refused. |
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| He charged Anselm with having given him insufficient knights for the campaign and tried to fine him. |
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| Methodists saw alcoholic beverages, and alcoholism, as the root of many social ills and tried to persuade people to abstain from these. |
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| When Henry tried to divorce Queen Catherine of Aragon, Fisher became the Queen's chief supporter. |
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| Since he had been deprived of his position of Bishop of Rochester by the Act of Attainder, he was treated as a commoner, and tried by jury. |
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| Melissa tried but without success not to be annoyed with Dee Dee, who was making a pig out of herself with the doughnuts. |
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| According to the contemporary chronicler Roger of Howden, Longchamp dug a moat around the castle and tried in vain to fill it from the Thames. |
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| I've tried to just always be driven by the things that were important to me. |
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| One guy tried a griffen deck but desolation and army ants ate him alive and everyone put the monowhite decks away. |
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| Mengistu and others who had fled the country were tried and sentenced in absentia. |
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| Transporting the large quantity of materials required for construction was difficult, so builders always tried to use local resources. |
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| One of the things that was a sin of ours, and the neocolonial arrangement we tried to produce, was that we had all the answers and they had none. |
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| James had Murdoch and two of his sons tried and then executed with further enforcement of his authority by more arrests and forfeiture of lands. |
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| Moray, with no heavy siege equipment available to him, tried to take the castle in a night attack and having failed, was forced to abandon siege. |
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| It tried and failed twice, but began again and succeeded on the third attempt. |
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| From the carnage of Bannockburn, the rest of the army tried to escape to the safety of the English border, ninety miles to the south. |
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| It was also in this bull that Pope John officially declared witchcraft to be heresy, and thus it could be tried under the Inquisition. |
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| Troyes, the site of the treaty that tried to disinherit Charles VII, was the only one to put up even brief opposition. |
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| Some Protestants tried to enforce the law themselves by apprehending these priests. |
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| On 11 December, James tried to flee to France, first throwing the Great Seal of the Realm into the River Thames. |
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| Scotland tried to establish a settlement in 1698 through the Darien scheme. |
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| Most New England parents tried to help their sons establish farms of their own. |
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| In 1838 Gladstone nearly ruined his career when he tried to force a religious mission upon the Conservative Party. |
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| At the outbreak of World War I, he tried to organise a pacifist general strike, but died soon afterwards. |
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| At times he had become critical of atmospheres, though remarkably detected an imposter who tried to hypnotize him one night. |
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| He also tried to capture Sana'a from the Yufirids in 901 AD, but failed miserably. |
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| Although the Sulayhids were Ismaili, they never tried to impose their beliefs on the public. |
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| When Murad tried to relieve Sana'a, highland tribesmen ambushed his unit and slaughtered all of them. |
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| An Ottoman expedition force tried to capture Sana'a, but was defeated and had to evacuate the highlands. |
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| Have Duncan and Richie been back together since Duncan went nutbar on us and tried for Richie's head? |
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| Legend has it that he tried to hide his pugilistic ambitions from his mother by carrying his boxing gloves inside his violin case. |
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| He tried to delve inside his memory for clues about what had happened. |
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| The committee tried to be fair and aboveboard in its hiring. |
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| He tried to interpose himself between the people who were fighting. |
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| The company has tried to prevent the workers from organizing. |
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| He tried to steer the conversation away from his recent problems. |
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| He tried to repair the damage by apologizing, but it was too late. |
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| The soldiers tried to neutralize the attack by dividing the invading army. |
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| People in the crowd were booing and heckling as she tried to speak. |
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| The journalist tried to get access to proprietary information. |
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| The director has tried to dissociate himself from his earlier films. |
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| The mayor's aides tried to peddle his innocence to reporters. |
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| We tried pushing and pulling but couldn't get the couch to move. |
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| The mayor tried to hamstring our efforts by cutting the budget. |
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| He tried to tie his shoelace but was all fingers and thumbs due to his nervousness. |
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| Vergenne'fury reached its height when the priest tried to involve the English ambassador. |
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| If you've tried to lose weight before, you probably sensed intuitively that such an antifood approach would be a problem. |
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| Tito and Nehru tried to keep fervent antiwesternism from superseding the fundamental anti-bloc position of the movement. |
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| So we tried not to talk about first or second anythings until our meeting with the rabbi. |
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| It is easily grown and arrows freely. It appears to be of moderate merit only, but might be cautiously tried on a small scale. |
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| While I never shunned my Aspieness, I tried to be clever about how and when to let my AS out and about. |
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| They tried to make more money by putting lots of salt in the popcorn and hiking up the price of drinks. |
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| Bad, he doubtless was. But when he tried to run a blazer on this grim little cowman, Slaughter had run him. |
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| Sighing, I rolled over and tried to go back to sleep. But the noises went on. I squinted at the clock. Bleurgh. |
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| After finding out she had terminal cancer, she tried to block out any thoughts of her own mortality. |
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| He tried to sprint, but his ligaments blew and he was barely able to walk to the finish line. |
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| The lieutenant tried the handle again, but still his efforts were quite bootless. He pushed and kicked, but the door was a strong one. |
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| Malene tried to digest what it meant that he was looking bosslike this morning. |
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| I tried to hit the bullseye by first bracketing it with two shots and then splitting the difference with my third, but I missed. |
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| I dipped a cheese stick into some sauce and tried not to cuss him out for ruining my amusing thoughts about little demon creatures. |
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| The Portuguese had mastered the technique of claying sugar, and other European nations tried to learn the secrets from them. |
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| It is true that when political philosophers have tried to intervene directly in political life, they have usually come unstuck. |
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