On the way they tried to discover all they could about Burma, and they were disturbed to find that Michael Symes's book had not presented an altogether true picture.

She tried to find some way to draw him out, to help him.

`` We have tried to make both paths attractive, so that good men could find opportunity and satisfaction in either.

`` Range delivery '' meant that the buyer, after examinin' the seller's ranch records and considerin' his rep'tation for truthfulness, paid for what the seller claimed to own, then rode out and tried to find it.

He considered them with brooding eyes, brows bunched as his brain grappled with the problem and tried to find some solution.

Artists and sculptors tried to find this ideal order in relation with mathematics, but they believed that this ideal order revealed itself not so much to the dispassionate intellect, as to the whole sentient self.

Her husband left her no money, so she has tried different kinds of work, and now hopes to find some work that is not too strenuous.

As expected, the Bastarnae attacked the vanguard in force, only to find themselves entangled in the full-scale pitched battle with the Romans that they had tried to avoid.

City authorities tried to find an ordinance forbidding it, to the joy of the crowd, they were unsuccessful.

Many tried to find ways to escape the obligation.

Early researchers tried to establish a link between déjà vu and serious psychopathology such as schizophrenia, anxiety, and dissociative identity disorder, but failed to find the experience of some diagnostic value.

These observations appeared to contradict the wave theory, and for years physicists tried in vain to find an explanation.

The mood on the set was tense, the actors both emotionally exhausted as Bogart tried to find a way out of his dilemma.

Originally slated to be available in 1981, the Keyboard Component was repeatedly delayed as the engineers tried to find ways to overcome the reliability issues and reduce manufacturing costs.

Many people have tried to find classical polynomial-time algorithms for it and failed, and therefore it is widely suspected to be outside P.

When Charles tried to find a compromise solution with the Augsburg Interim, Bucer and Bullinger urged Calvin to respond.

After the armistice he returned to Birmingham and tried to find work as a cartoonist.

Justinian also tried to find new routes for the eastern trade, which was suffering badly from the wars with the Persians.

For example, if one tried to demonstrate it using the hydrocarbons decane ( chemical formula C < sub > 10 </ sub > H < sub > 22 </ sub >) and undecane ( C < sub > 11 </ sub > H < sub > 24 </ sub >), one would find that 100 grams of carbon could react with 18. 46 grams of hydrogen to produce decane or with 18. 31 grams of hydrogen to produce undecane, for a ratio of hydrogen masses of 121: 120, which is hardly a ratio of " small " whole numbers.

An athlete ahead of him fainted 50 metres from the finish, and Liimatainen stopped and tried to find his way off the track, thinking he had reached the finish line.

The Swedish author Mirjam Tapper has edited a book on Rilke's stay in Paris, where she reflected on the many addresses Rilke lived at and tried to find the correlation between his stay there and his poems.

Some critics have also tried to apply the theory to individual works, but the effort to find unique structures in individual literary works runs counter to the structuralist program and has an affinity with New Criticism.

Nevertheless, other researchers who have tried to verify his citations find nothing in these sources to back Haining's claims.

At that time part of the young locals repressed by the Serbs, tried to find a separate way of ethnic Macedonian development.

Edison and his wife Mina spent many winters in Fort Myers where they recreated and Edison tried to find a domestic source of natural rubber.

The Republicans ' counterargument that slavery was the mainstay of the enemy steadily gained support, with the Democrats crushed at the 1863 elections in Ohio when they tried to resurrect anti-black sentiment.

Throughout his term in office Kamral tried to establish a support base for the PDPA by introducing several changes.

After U. S. support was banned by Congress, the Reagan administration tried to covertly continue contra aid.

Empirical analyses tend to support the theoretical prediction that poor countries should grow faster than rich countries because they can adopt cutting edge technologies already tried and tested by rich countries.

The British and Danish Conservatives tried to maintain a group of their own called the European Democrats ( ED ), but lack of support and the problems inherent in maintaining a small group forced ED's collapse in the 1990s, and its members crossed the floor to join the EPP Group.

Protestant missionaries campaigning against it tried to gain support from humanitarian and women's rights groups in London, where the issue was raised in the House of Commons, and in Kenya itself a person's stance toward FGM became a test of loyalty, either to the Christian churches or to the Kikuyu Central Association.

Tammany Hall looked with alarm upon Kelly ’ s entrance into the campaign and tried to persuade him to withdraw his candidacy and throw his support behind Moran.

The Swedish socialists, on the other hand, did not provide support for the Finnish Reds, but tried to open peace negotiations between the Finnish Whites and Reds.

James tried again to gain William's support but William responded by advising James to keep to the law and not to try to extend his prerogative powers.

Caesar tried to re-secure Pompey's support by offering him his great-niece in marriage, but Pompey declined.

This meant that, while he could count on the wholehearted support of the Western army which had aided his rise, the Eastern army was an unknown quantity originally loyal to the Emperor he had risen against, and he had tried to woo it through the Chalcedon Tribunal.

In August 1257, John of Arsuf tried to end the war by granting commercial rights in Acre to Ancona, an Italian ally of Genoa, but aside from Philip of Montfort and the Hospitallers, the rest of the nobles continued to support Venice.

He tried to claim the kingship, but with no support and no chance of a coronation in Pavia.

Some were in support of the White Movement while some tried to be an independent force.

There were allegations that " planning to seize power, Beria tried to obtain the support of imperialist states at the price of violation of territorial integrity of the Soviet Union and transfer of parts of USSR's territory to capitalist states.

Cure was succeeded a year later by Emmanuel Anquetil who tried to gain the support of the port workers.

Bloch vigorously supported the idea of international scholarly cooperation and tried unsuccessfully to set up an international journal with American support.

Throughout his tenure, he tried to build support for his government.

She had earlier appeared on the October 26, 1931 cover along-side her husband and on the January 3, 1937 cover with her husband as " Man and Wife of the Year )" Both husband and wife were on good terms with Time Magazine senior editor and co-founder Henry Luce, who frequently tried to rally money and support from the American public for the Republic of China.

The party and state bureaucracy opposed Linh's reform initiatives ; because of this, Linh tried to win the support of provincial leaders.

When Henry IV tried to copy this procedure he was less successful, as he lacked the support of the people.

The MS-DOS was a version specialized for and only bootable on the Tandy 1000, as it would announce on the screen of any other PC-compatible one tried to boot with it ; it included a version of BASICA ( Microsoft's Advanced GW-BASIC ) with support for the enhanced CGA graphics modes ( a. k. a. Tandy Graphics or TGA ) and three-voice sound hardware of the Tandy 1000.

Following the First Republic ( 1918-1933 ) Austrofascism tried to keep Austria independent from the German Reich and in 1938 was annexed by Nazi Germany with the support of a large part of the Austrian people.

His business manager, Marvin " Dusty " Snyder, tried to intervene, but Prinze shot himself in the head, and was rushed to the UCLA Medical Center to be placed on life support following emergency surgery.

In the summer of 1811 British emissaries tried to enlist the support of Indians in the region, telling them that the British would help them to resist the encroaching American settlement.