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tries and stop
Piepsam tries to stop him by force, receives a push in the chest from `` Life '', and is left standing in impotent and growing rage, while a crowd begins to gather.
As he tries to stop Fay, the inmates mingle with the townspeople, until no one can guess who is who.
Players on the batting team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team, which tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways.
Professor X tries to make him stop, to reason him one more time.
A play from scrimmage is the activity of the games of Canadian football and American football during which one team tries to advance the ball, get a first down, or to score, and the other team tries to stop them or take the ball away.
The JSDF desperately tries everything to stop Godzilla from entering Tokyo.
When he finally reaches the cables, Andoh tries to stop him from releasing them.
Each team has a goaltender who tries to stop the puck from going into the goal or " net.
She is on a mission when she does not follow orders from her superior and tries to stop their target from choking.
The gangs meet each other under the highway, and as the fight between Bernardo and Diesel is just beginning, Tony arrives and tries to stop the rumble.
When they stop for a break, Danker tries to drive off with their luggage.
A few months later, Mr. Henry F. Potter ( Lionel Barrymore ), a slumlord and majority shareholder in the Building and Loan, tries to persuade the board of directors to stop providing home loans for the working poor.
A local doctor uncovers what is happening and tries to stop them.
In a passage in Iliad, Apollo tries three times to stop Patroclus in front of the walls of Troy, warning him that it is " over his portion " to sack the city.
Manny recognizes that he cannot stop Hector at present and instead, with the help of his driver and speed demon Glottis, he tries to find Meche on her journey in the nearby Petrified Forest.
Throughout the game, Kamek tries to stop Yoshi by dispatching his minions all across the island and by using magic spells to transform normal enemies into more powerful creatures that further impede Yoshi's progress.
Cú Chulainn tries to stop him taking her, but Cú Roí drives him into the ground up to his armpits and cuts off his hair before escaping, taking Bláthnat with him.
Cú Chulainn tries to stop him taking her, but Cú Roí cuts his hair and drives him into the ground up to his armpits before escaping, taking Blathnát with him.
:" Genocide is in and of itself a national interest where we should act " and " we can say to the people of the world, whether you live in Africa, or Central Europe, or any other place, if somebody comes after innocent civilians and tries to kill them en masse because of their race, their ethnic background or their religion, and it's within our power to stop it, we will stop it.
Annette runs out and tries to stop it.
Gluskab tries to stop his wind in order to hunt by tying his wings and moving him, but realizes that without the wind, the earth and water will suffer and releases him enough to allow some wind.
Senator Parker tries to stop Simmons from getting on the buoy as it's not his turn.

tries and one
`` I kicked about 110 extra points in 135 tries during three years in high school '', he said, `` and made 26 in a row at one time.
A gray fox with a patch on one eye -- confidence man, city slicker, lebensraum specialist -- tries to take over Catfish Bend in this third relaxed allegory from Mr. Burman's refreshing Louisiana animal community.
The program tries every string, starting with the shortest, until it finds a string with complexity at least n ( if there is one ), then returns that string ( or goes into an infinite loop if there is no such string ).
This means that in most real-world setups where machines are added a few at a time, only one or two tries are needed before the address effectively become constant.
Another example is when someone tries to pull apart Oreo cookies and all the filling remains on one side ; this is an adhesive failure, rather than a cohesive failure.
In some versions, Orion tries to seduce Opis, one of her followers, and she killed him.
Fay tries to get Hapgood to expose the miracle, but he warns her no one will believe it is a fake, because it works as a miracle should.
Instead of reviewing music videos, they reviewed ( custom-made ) pages from other Marvel Comics — in one with Ghost Rider, Beavis tries to avoid using the word " fire " to describe the character's fiery skull.
At one point in 1984 Winston Smith, the protagonist of Orwell's novel, tries " to remember in what year he had first heard mention of Big Brother.
When faced with a new circuit, the software first tries to find a steady state solution, that is, one where all nodes conform to Kirchhoff's Current Law and the voltages across and through each element of the circuit conform to the voltage / current equations governing that element.
Mildred tries to cover up Montag's actions by claiming that, once a year, firemen bring home one book and read it aloud as a form of mocking past literature.
Meanwhile, one of the crewmembers aboard the damaged Russian vessel activates the missile ( or tries to deactivate it, depending on the film version ), which is set for a countdown, before succumbing to his injuries.
Similarly, one should trust one's city to an expert in the subject of the good, not to a mere politician who tries to gain power by giving people what they want, rather than what's good for them.
The crowd, now angry at someone so daring, was about to pry him away from the fish when Guanyin projected her voice from far away, saying " A life should definitely belong to one who tries to save it, not one who tries to take it.
However, the styles are very different as one is heavily structured and rhymed while the other tries to mimic conversational speech.
In this use of equivocation, the word " light " is first used as the opposite of " heavy ", but then used as a synonym of " bright " ( the fallacy usually becomes obvious as soon as one tries to translate this argument into another language ).
When one tries to minimize this cost using gradient descent for the class of neural networks called multilayer perceptrons, one obtains the common and well-known backpropagation algorithm for training neural networks.

tries and man
We expect him to be noble, and to make us so -- yet he knows, and tries to tell us, how very humble man must be.
Arnolphe, it will be recalled, is a man of mature years who tries to preserve the innocence of his youthful wife-to-be.
He is Demiurge and maker of man, but as a ray of light from above enters the body of man and gives him a soul, Yaldabaoth is filled with envy ; he tries to limit man's knowledge by forbidding him the fruit of knowledge in paradise.
It's nothing like some old man who tries to fuck his three-year-old, that's evil and disgusting ... Of course we're consenting, that's the most important thing.
The trader plays music on a gramophone and tries to explain how a man ' cans ' his voice.
In a fury, the man grabs an axe and tries to kill the cat but is stopped by his wife.
Cassiel tries to save the young man but is unable to do so, and is left haunted and tormented by the experience.
Next he tries to detain Silly, a younger man who works for him, saying that he signed a contract and must honor it.
The gag originated in a sketch in which Scott Thompson played a homophobic man who took offense at another man's ( McKinney ) attempt to seduce him by taking him to a Maple Leafs game: " Every time I come to this city, some guy picks me up at the bus station, takes me to a Leaf game, gets me pissed, then tries to blow me.
The play tells the story of a young man, Tom, his disabled sister, Laura, and their controlling mother Amanda, who tries to make a match between Laura and a gentleman caller.
The film is about an Italian Jewish man who tries to protect his son's innocence during his internment at a Nazi concentration camp, by telling him that the Holocaust is an elaborate game and he must adhere very carefully to the rules to win.
The ego represents what may be called reason and common sense, in contrast to the id, which contains the passions ... in its relation to the id it is like a man on horseback, who has to hold in check the superior strength of the horse ; with this difference, that the rider tries to do so with his own strength, while the ego uses borrowed forces.
His performance that night was about a blind man who tries to become a comedian and Ullman later recalled that although there were flashier performances that night, Castellaneta made her cry.
The Immortal Story, in which an elderly man tries to buy youth, was adapted to the screen in 1968 by Orson Welles, a great admirer of Blixen's work and life.
It was considered to be variously a covetous man banished to guard a corner of heaven against evil monsters ; or a monster equipped with only a head which tries to devour men but hurts only itself.
Unlike other people who think the Number One Dime to be a lucky charm, Magica doesn't believe it to be the source of Scrooge's wealth, but Scrooge's wealth to be the source of the dime's powers, as she only tries to steal it because it's the first coin ever earned by the richest duck ( or man ) on Earth.
* Roger Guenveur Smith as Smiley, a young, mentally impaired man who tries to sell pictures of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
The Exploits of Elaine tells the story of a young woman named Elaine who, with the help of a detective, tries to find the man, known only as " The Clutching Hand ", who murdered her father.
The woman tries to kill her sleeping body with a knife but is awakened by a man.
ALP is given the final word, as the book closes on a version of her Letter and her final long monologue, in which she tries to wake her sleeping husband, declaring " Rise up, man of the hooths, you have slept so long!
In " Spidey Cents ", a fourth season episode of the History reality television series Pawn Stars, which aired in May 2011, a man tries to sell McFarlane's original artwork for page 25 of The Amazing Spider-Man # 316 ( June 1989 ) for $ 20, 000 to the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas.
In Brief Lives, she persuades a man to give the dancer Tiffany money, when Tiffany would later be the only mortal to survive the explosion of the building in which she was dancing ; in The Kindly Ones, she knows full well that her brother is in trouble and unsuccessfully tries to persuade him to help her find Barnabas ; also, when read the quote ' Quoth the Raven ', from Edgar Allan Poe's poem, " The Raven ", she says ' Whatever ', which, down to the pronounced ' ev ' had been and would be said by Matthew the Raven throughout the book.

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