I tried hard to leave her personal struggle very ambiguous.
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He tried hard to buy the Buffalo Bills in 2014.
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China has tried hard to hide what it is doing.
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In general, Mr. Moon has tried hard to reassure Washington.
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Farris, Wilson thought, tried hard to emulate the prophet's actions.
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We tried hard for a long time, and we're really disappointed.
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Activists have tried hard to encourage Arab women to assert themselves.
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So, like I said, I tried hard to hate Merle Haggard.
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"I tried hard to get a rapid response fund," Frieden explained.
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I tried hard to make sense of a life without belief.
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It is an image that corporations have tried hard to change.
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I fear I'll regret not having tried hard enough with her.
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Trump has tried hard to reassure cultural conservatives about judicial appointments.
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I tried hard to put myself in good standing with the coaches.
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When showtime came, I tried hard to strut around and be confident.
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Policymakers in both countries have tried hard to make them macroeconomically "normal".
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We tried hard to win the game and Iceland didn't try anything.
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The company has tried hard to clean that up in recent years.
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You've tried hard to make a distinction between Trump and his supporters.
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We tried hard to get an acrostic passage from it but failed.
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I have tried hard to reduce the politicization and work for consensus.
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I've tried hard and never made her happier with any other present.
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Alan Eustace really tried hard, and he tried hard in significant ways like the hiring process, taking a look at how they promoted, and making sure that the data was out there so women knew when it was time.
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We all tried hard, but couldn't make it work since I'm shooting Jumanji.
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Guajardo said his team tried hard during the week to bridge the gap.
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He has tried hard to defuse concerns over his future role in government.
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City and state officials tried hard to keep teachers from going on strike.
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Over the years, Min had tried hard not to think about that moment.
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She tried hard to get loans from banks and hedge funds, prosecutors said.
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I tried hard to hide my pride, but I don't think I succeeded.
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She added that the doctors had not tried hard enough to obtain privileges.
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The Trump administration tried hard to address the conditions for membership on the council.
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I have tried hard to bend over backwards and to be fair to him.
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She did her best, she really tried hard and she really wanted to compete.
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AC: Um, but yeah you tried hard and you should be rewarded for that.
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In truth, Mr Khan's government tried hard to keep its distance from the fund.
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We tried hard to bring everyone together — OPEC and non-OPEC — to seek consensus.
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The financial services industry and Silicon Valley have tried hard to reach younger investors.
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Russia has tried hard to pin the blame for the airline crash on Ukraine.
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"We tried hard not to disrupt the nature of anything in this special place."
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In a heavily nationalized election, both candidates tried hard to out-Georgia each other.
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I know when I've tried hard and there was some breakthrough or things clicked.
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He has tried hard to qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance and food stamps.
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He was always very gentle and would warmly welcome me after I tried hard.
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"We tried hard to stop them," said Yadwad, pointing to injuries on his back.
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He said he tried hard to give an unvarnished picture of Israel's complex history.
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" He added, "We all tried hard, but couldn't make it work since I'm shooting Jumanji.
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Western journalists have tried hard to take something—anything—positive away from the failed uprising.
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Jobs himself was a reportedly a fan, and tried hard to make the device work.
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Censors tried hard to delete posts critical of the police handling of Mr Lei's case.
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You have tried hard, you've given it your all, no one can question your effort.
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Reassured by her mother, the child, under 10, I guessed, tried hard to be brave.
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Thanks to the medical team that worked on Srinu and tried hard to revive him back.
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Pao also tried hard to undo Reddit's problematic culture, including its alleged encouragement of heavy drinking.
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Zuckerberg tried hard, they said, but there's no way to do this in "the foreseeable future."
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America has tried hard to promote wedlock among poor people since the 1990s, but failed utterly.
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"Tinder tried hard not to define its purpose [in India]," said another former Tinder India employee.
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John McCain's life story doesn't imply that veterans who struggle with PTSD haven't tried hard enough.
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"We tried hard for a long time, and we're really disappointed," they wrote in a joint statement.
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Mr Kabila, who has been in power since 2001, has tried hard to derail the democratic process.
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Why this matters: Republicans, particularly tax writers, have tried hard to avoid mixing health care and tax.
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But since 2012, Mr. Obama has not tried hard enough to find an opening with North Korea.
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The best thing you can do is what you've tried hard to do all along – ignore him.
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But these were policies developed by Russians — even if Western businesses tried hard to profit from them.
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CAS ruled that the tester had not tried hard enough and said Armitstead had not been negligent.
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The Jays' ownership tried hard to keep him, and Shapiro said he had expected Anthopoulos to stay.
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Mr. Trump tried hard to make amends to the Muslim world he had spent many months insulting.
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"Military hawks in Washington have tried hard to scare Beijing and console Taipei," the China Daily editorial said.
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So on Monday, I tried hard to pay attention to what the Fox and Friends hosts were discussing.
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Mr Abe's grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, tried hard to revise it while he was prime minister in the 1950s.
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Still, Musk tried hard to pivot the call away from Tesla's losses and towards its robo-taxi masterplan.
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But it is to her credit that she has tried hard to grapple with a fiendishly difficult problem.
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It was a story about representation and the strength of a culture the mainstream tried hard to ignore.
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Dave Chappelle was the host, and the episode tried hard to grapple with the country's new political uncertainty.
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The banker, Dumisani Bengu, felt that anyone who tried hard enough could succeed in the new South Africa.
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We tried hard to stay out of each other's way, but I also wanted them to feel comfortable.
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When Alexei Navalny sat down for his first campaign debate last month, he tried hard to appear presidential.
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But they are involved parents who have tried hard to stay on top of T.J.'s academic needs.
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We've not experienced high inflation in recent years, but that's not because the Federal Reserve hasn't tried hard enough.
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In fact, I really tried hard to work in a Clueless reference into this episode but it fell flat.
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If I tried hard, there was always a logic to discover, an internal order and consistency that was beautiful.
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When Anna Faris and Chris Pratt said that they "tried hard for a long time and [are] really disappointed"?
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Gerry and Kate said that they've tried hard to make life somewhat normal for their twins, Sean and Amelie.
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The team is very conscious that those moments can be easily ruined, and they've tried hard to avoid that.
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Tom Perez: I consider myself a pretty passionate person, but I have always tried hard not to personalize things.
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The Obama administration has tried hard to deter the crush of migrants arriving from Central America in recent years.
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But this speech for the first time tried hard to reach out beyond his base and showed some heart.
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My mother tried hard to simulate pleased surprise when the cakelets were displayed, but the oven was soon abandoned.
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But when he was asked point-blank whether he would support impeachment, he tried hard to slam the door.
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But David Nevins, the chief executive of Showtime, said he had "really tried hard not to" delay an episode.
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The GOP has tried hard to emphasize turnout, and it could need every last vote from 12th District Republicans.
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Residents have tried hard to make their abodes more welcoming, filling them with television sets, furniture and ornamental rugs.
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He said the agency tried hard to avoid some of the clichés that sometimes infect charity advertising of this kind.
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I really tried hard to buy one the evening before we left, but they only had the colorful Joy-Con.
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And when volunteers struggled to remember, the interviewer told them, falsely, that they could remember if they tried hard enough.
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Martha McSally, an Air Force veteran who's tried hard to ingratiate herself with President Trump and his voters this year.
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"We tried hard for a long time, and we're really disappointed," the couple said in a statement on Aug. 6.
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MPs tried hard to ignore the invaders even as several glued their bottoms against the glass barrier above the chamber.
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The unnamed supposed city official, meanwhile, had tried hard—before they stopped answering emails—to suggest that Callahan was unwell.
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"We tried hard for a long time, and we're really disappointed," the couple said in a statement on Aug. 6.
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The mayor has tried hard to build a consensus that New York's livability can be salvaged before it's too late.
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The film's creators clearly tried hard to transcend mere cultural appropriation, in favor of a sincere homage to its influences.
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She tried hard to win over Conservative hard-liners, but made little effort to win allies among Remainers and centrists.
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Ben tried hard to describe how New Yorkers processed the terrorist attack, but he struggled to find the right words.
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They've also tried hard to tell everybody they're not really judging anyone's sex or gender when they test hormone levels.
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But as the producer tried hard to juggle concurrent relationships with Hernandez and Faust, things got increasingly ugly between the three.
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Nick Landry, 27 of Somersworth, said he has tried hard to keep an open mind since supporting Sanders four years ago.
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We've also tried hard to keep the prints as minimalist as possible so that the focus is on the product itself.
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"ISIS (Islamic State) tried hard to destroy Mosul's identity by demolishing everything and making it monochrome," Faisal told Reuters in Mosul.
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I'll admit that when I answered the phone at Oren's Hummus Shop, I tried hard to trip up the Duplex bot.
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I could tell that there was something wrong, but I tried hard to be respectful in regard to Lilly's family affairs.
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Tom Cotton of Arkansas tried hard to avoid made-for-TV confrontations at his first Trump-era town hall Wednesday night.
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But I think he's been seen as a person who tried hard, was pretty successful, and got beat up pretty bad.
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I tried hard to interest her in my activities and to win her approval, but I mostly failed to please her.
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President Trump, however — impervious to certain facts and armed with a Twitter account — has tried hard to convince the public otherwise.
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My husband, the film director Blake Edwards, tried hard to acquire the rights for many years, but alas, was never successful.
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I tried hard to channel Oprah's big personality and positive energy while imitating her signature open-mouth smile as the cameras flashed.
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Maybe it evokes vomit-inducing memories you tried hard to suppress, or a sensory dream-come-true you never wanted to end.
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Jamie Hodari, chief executive of Industrious, a rival co-working business, said Mr. Neumann had tried hard to tempt his customers away.
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"In the White House, she tried hard not to cancel events, but she became more and more anxious and upset," Brower said.
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I've tried hard to like it, pushing through mounting paranoia and dizzy spells, but have never had a great, chilled-out experience.
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I tried hard to understand his frustrations, even when he was at his most belligerent, and did my best to alleviate them.
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Stress had caused a haze of pink to cloud her eyes, a mild case of conjunctivitis that she tried hard to downplay.
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Keeping pace with industry technology The SEC has tried hard to keep up with fast-paced technological changes in the securities markets.
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"Catching this fish of a lifetime and it not making it totally sucks for me but it happens especially since we tried hard."
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Questioner 2: In the book, you say that if you're a comedy writer and you haven't insulted anybody, you haven't tried hard enough.
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The European project was conceived by French leaders to be headed by their country—one reason they tried hard to keep Britain out.
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But many are unaware of the science of fertility, and neither the Nigerian government nor aid agencies have tried hard to educate them.
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Southern senators tried hard to kill the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which explicitly made it illegal for companies to discriminate against workers.
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His CBS report was the first of ABC, CBS and NBC to note the scandal that other outlets have tried hard to discredit.
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Gropius had tried hard to keep politics out of art, but the Nazis were increasingly hostile to the Bauhaus, branding its output degenerate.
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Mariano Rajoy, Spain's conservative prime minister, tried hard to prevent the vote taking place, and police violence on polling day shamed the country.
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As critical as he is of Trumpism, he has tried hard to understand Trump voters' perspectives, as on the night after Trump's election.
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"Yes, he tried hard for his sister," beamed Oxana Orlova, who lives in Kirov, a city in the Volga region east of Moscow.
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Afterward, we had to ask, has the influence of the tabloids diminished because they tried hard, but didn't succeed, in crushing Jeremy Corbyn?
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I let it lie on one side of my tongue and tried hard not to chew on it while he showed me around.
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One way that Hindi movies have traditionally tried hard is in their maximalism: tears, laughter, more tears, and, of course, singing and dancing.
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I tried hard to focus on her as she played her violin, but my mind returned to my father far away in Tehran.
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"I've always tried hard to work only with people I admire, and I encourage folks here to be just as demanding," Bezos writes.
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Slack has tried hard to attract a wider range of corporate customers, who are wary of new products due to security and privacy concerns.
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I promise I care deeply about plastic reduction and in the States tried hard to be responsible about it, but it feels futile here.
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He tried hard to fight Mr. Trump for the soul of the Republican Party over his proposal to bar Muslims from entering the country.
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Yes, Arnold Schwarzenegger did a really bad job as Governor of California and even worse on the Apprentice...but at least he tried hard!
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Siegel says he tried hard to get her to stop her excessive spending over the next 10 years but it fell on deaf ears.
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For me, I've tried hard to be the best journalist I can be, and I use that as a measuring stick as my goal.
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Brandi tried hard to walk over the threshold at The Nice Guy in WeHo Saturday night, but a very judgmental doorman wasn't having it.
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One big point that Google wants to make clear is that they have tried hard not to catch publishers off guard with these changes.
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Not so long ago the "American dream" held out the prospect that everyone, however humble their background, could succeed if they tried hard enough.
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"This is silly," said Sean Spicer, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, which has tried hard to make the Trump campaign more professional.
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And though the servers tried hard, sometimes they tried too hard, one night making it difficult to have a conversation between all their interruptions.
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But the startup has years of experiences in the space and has tried hard to compensate when it comes to latency and internet speeds.
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In recent years, the anti-abortion movement has tried hard to show that it cares as much about women as it does about fetuses.
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We tried hard on the show to take all of that and work out the practical kinks of how you would actually do that.
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Democrats tried hard to make Blaine's alleged mendacity a key issue, claiming that he had not only engaged in corruption but, worse, lied about it.
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I tried hard to address Ambassador Taylor's concerns because he is a valuable and effective diplomat and I took very seriously the issues he raised.
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The show presented the fantasy that other people could have it all too, if they only tried hard enough and knew the trick—Trump's trick.
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If I really tried hard, I could tell you stories about all those interchangeable trips through the stars, but I'd just be making them up.
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White House chief economic advisor Gary Cohn said the administration tried hard to cut a hedge-fund loophole in the tax reform bill, but failed.
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Former teammates say that Westbrook became even more determined, playing as though he could glue the pieces back together if he just tried hard enough.
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Day after day, as customers searched for deals among the wreckage of our once magical store, I tried hard to be strong for my family.
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The other signatories — Europe in particular, but also Russia and China — tried hard to preserve the agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
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Lawyers and journalists had tried hard during the trial to conceal the identity of the child and her family to protect their right to privacy.
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"I have tried hard not to comment on the allegations involving Ukraine because that appears to be the focus of the impeachment inquiry," she said.
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While my friends were focused on boys and keeping up with school gossip, I tried hard to keep up with the daily rhythm of teen life.
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Steve Clemons tried hard back in 2016 to determine a "Biden Doctrine," and found parts of it in Biden's belief in the power of personal relationships.
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If you think fat people just haven't tried hard enough, just don't know what to eat, or are just too unmotivated, you are simply, categorically wrong.
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Sibinga and her colleagues tried hard to match the instructors for both the health class and the mindfulness class in terms of engagement and skill level.
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Mr Stoltenberg, a Norwegian whose job is to act as a kind of lightning-rod for storms raging inside NATO, tried hard to accentuate the positive.
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Wang Dong, associate professor of international studies at the elite Peking University, said China had tried hard to prevent the situation from getting out of control.
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She told stories of how she struggled in math and science in high school, but still tried hard because she knew it was important to learn.
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Oliver goes on to show how Marine, the daughter, has tried hard to rebrand the party, successfully wooing voters who would never have approached her dad.
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And he has tried hard to persuade Congress to take away funding authority for the bureau from the Federal Reserve — so that Congress can cut it.
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Ahead of President Trump's pullout of the Paris climate accords, world leaders tried hard to convince him to remain during a G-7 Summit in Sicily.
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I have tried hard to bend over backwards and be fair to him... In the end, I am convinced that there really are [no reasonable defenses].
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We'd prefer to be seen as the version of ourselves we tried hard to become, and Paramore's fans have chosen to see the band as the latter.
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If the market tightens as much as traders currently expect, the White House will be faced with a rise in prices it has tried hard to avoid.
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President Obama has tried hard to draw more resources for the federal government by raising the top rate of taxes paid by rich people like Mr. Trump.
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Johnson can tell voters he tried hard for a deal, and the EU can avoid blame if there is no agreement, or (unlikely) a no-deal exit.
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As I write this, I think of my dad, who grew up poor, never finished college, and tried hard but never "graduated" to a higher social class.
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After finding that its internet polling in 503 oversampled politically engaged voters, who tend to be leftish, YouGov tried hard to recruit less-engaged voters to its panel.
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I was such a terrible athlete that I once received a book — about a kid who tried hard and was still terrible at basketball — instead of a trophy.
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Moderate MPs tried hard to get rid of Mr Corbyn, only to see him hold onto his job and win 40% of the vote in last year's election.
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Since my wedding day, I have certainly made some mistakes in my marriage, but I have always tried hard to be a good husband, and a good person.
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We tried hard, within what could be a fairly restrictive storytelling medium, to give Earth Wars the kind of narrative integrity that owed more to my comics work.
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The woman playing Nicole Brown Simpson in a new movie tried hard to meet OJ Simpson behind bars, and she says he wanted to meet her as well.
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Le Pen has tried hard to reform the party's image, instead presenting a modern populist vision of France that is avowedly anti-globalization, anti-EU, and anti-immigrant.
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Faris and Pratt announced their legal separation late Sunday night in a joint statement detailing how they had tried hard to work things out but were "disappointed" they couldn't.
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Edging into a minefield it has tried hard to avoid, despite a danger for stability in Spain and the euro zone, the European Commission issued a cautiously balanced statement.
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But al-Abadi has tried hard to brand the fight against ISIS as a national one, involving a range of ethno-religious groups fighting under one national Iraqi flag.
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I've tried hard over the last few years to find a treatment plan that would enable me to return to work, but that effort may soon be for nothing.
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Mr. Laux said he tried hard to keep his substance abuse from his bosses at the C.I.A., who had little oversight over case officers in between their overseas postings.
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" I'm also told that Hulu, which is very likely to end up solely owned by Disney/Fox once those two companies consummate their merger, tried hard to land "Friends.
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Governor Reynolds, a Republican, said the Trump administration had tried hard to approve it, but had found it impossible to do so without violating the terms of the law.
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The Ritz Theater and the Cincinnati foundation said that they had tried hard to win the contest, too, but that they had not coached anyone into voting multiple times.
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Lacking robust international funding to address the Venezuelan migration, Colombia has tried hard to avoid setting up long-term refugee camps like those in Africa and the Middle East.
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He tried hard ... but Tyler couldn't figure out how to properly slice the bread and then cut the avocado STRAIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE THROUGH THE PIT LIKE A PSYCHOPATH!!!
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As the CEO of an investment company, I have tried hard to adopt an attitude of dispassionate observation in which to regard the sensationalist aspects of each day's pronouncements.
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For example, in California, which has tried hard to make health reform work, the number of people with health insurance has soared, while premiums are still well below expectations.
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Donald Mender, M.D., Rhinebeck, N.Y. RE: IMMORTALITY Mark O'Connell profiled Zoltan Istvan, an entrepreneur and presidential candidate who preaches that humans could conquer death if we tried hard enough.
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Arthur Jones (not his real name) was "raised up in the ghetto" by strict Southern parents who tried hard but could not prevent him from becoming involved in drugs.
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And if you look historically, countries that have tried hard to sustain lagging regions much more explicitly than we have ever had in this country, they have not succeeded.
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" Pratt and Faris announced their split after eight years of marriage on social media, saying in a joint statement, "We tried hard for a long time, and we're really disappointed.
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The sneaker firm has tried hard to enhance its image after being caught out by criticism of its labour standards at suppliers in Asia in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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This is a city where officials tried hard to force them out, in a state where lawmakers passed the toughest law in the country aimed at doing the same thing.
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The N.F.L. has tried hard over the years to turn Thursday night games into an attraction that would bolster NFL Network and rival the older Sunday and Monday night franchises.
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The protests aren't likely to convince China that it has overstepped in trying to curb Hong Kong's autonomy; instead, they're taken as a sign that China hasn't tried hard enough.
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And with two of its toughest games (home to Mexico and away to Costa Rica) behind it, the United States has tried hard this week to focus on what's ahead.
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For Fatima, who expected to find herself all alone in her new city, the sight of so many familiar faces was overwhelming, but she tried hard to play it cool.
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While China and the United States have tried hard to keep lines of communication between their militaries open, especially at the senior level, they are deeply suspicious of each other.
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That is why he has tried hard to portray himself as a "common man", highlighting his experiences of living in a cave and working in the fields during Mao's Cultural Revolution.
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The present sultan has tried hard to unify the country around a moderate version of the Ibadi creed, but it is not clear whether Oman will be immune from sectarian strife.
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It also ran into selling against the yen even though the Bank of Japan tried hard on Tuesday to quash talk it might curb its massive asset buying campaign anytime soon.
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Neither is Macron reverting to a Gaullist, anti-American world view, French officials say, pointing out that he has tried hard to keep Trump close to Europe since he was elected.
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"Trump tried hard to make the 2018 elections about him, telling voters repeatedly to act as if he were on the ballot," the Wall Street Journal's Gerald Seib wrote last November.
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Ms. Ayotte has tried hard to avoid criticizing Mr. Trump — and by proxy his voters — saying several times that she "supports" him, but won't go as far as to endorse him.
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The US considers Saudi Arabia the key to counter-balancing Iran in the Middle East, and has tried hard, but so-far unsuccessfully, to sway Riyadh to end the Qatar blockade.
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I didn't want anything to hold me back from achieving my dream, especially my body, which I believed I could mold into anything I wanted if I just tried hard enough.
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The 2018 Emmys kicked off with an overly long and overly topical monologue from hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che that tried hard to be funny ... but ended up being cringeworthy.
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Clinton tried hard to make waves with superficial appeals to youth culture, include Yaaas Hillary T-shirts, appearing with the cast of Broad City, and campaigning in Iowa with Katy Perry.
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For weeks, critics pressed the FBI on whether it tried hard enough to hack into the device on its own, before it sought a court order to force Apple to help.
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We talked to McFarland shortly after his would-be music fest came crashing down, and at the time he explained how he and his team tried hard to make it work.
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Clinton tried hard to make waves with superficial appeals to youth culture, include selling Yaaas Hillary T-shirts, appearing with the cast of Broad City, and campaigning in Iowa with Katy Perry.
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"Both parties seem to have tried hard to come to a consensus but always had large difference in price expectations this year," energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie said in a note to clients.
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Trey Gowdy (R-SC), the chair of the House Oversight Committee, seemed to suggest that that officials just haven't tried hard enough to persuade the president that Russia meddled in the election.
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But Mr Trump, resistant to its conclusions and egged on by Steve Bannon, a critic of military intervention abroad who was then his chief political strategist, tried hard to find an alternative.
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I tried hard not to doze during a yoga nidra class led by Jayalakshmi Moily, whose melodic voice brought me right to the intended dreamy state of consciousness between waking and sleeping.
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The move was a remarkable departure from past practice for the new government of President Volodymyr Zelensky, which has tried hard to avoid any hint of partisanship in its dealings with Washington.
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China has tried hard to woo Trudeau, who was the guest of honor at a special Chinese reception in Ottawa in January which featured rare photos of his father in the Chinese capital.
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Implicit in her narrative was the idea that autism was curable (if you just tried hard enough, early enough) and avoidable (if only the doctors would listen to the mothers who know best).
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"We always tried hard to come up with a title and a song that could end up being the theme to a summer youth camp and plastered on t-shirts everywhere," he writes.
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The fan's family tried hard to get in touch with him because the pre-teen was a huge fan, and last week -- when word reached Kanye, he jumped at the chance to connect.
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A party that once tried hard to combine humane realism toward the long-resident unauthorized population (through some form of legalization) with serious enforcement toward recent violators now rarely sounds the latter theme.
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I'd tried hard to keep the news under wraps, asking friends and family to keep it to themselves, and took a certain amount of weird pride in making it to the finish line.
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Pritchard had worked at the department for almost two years by the time the complaints began, and tried hard to comply with the conflicting criticisms that her men counterparts never seemed to receive.
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" Their coach Alan Djeumfam, who was remarkably restrained through the mayhem and tried hard to calm his players, said that every decision went against his side and that they suffered a "miscarriage of justice.
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Tennessee tried hard to get doctors to consult the database it set up in 2006, to no avail — the number of doses prescribed rose by 12 percent from 2010 to 2012, state officials said.
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After reaching a $20 million settlement with Gretchen Carlson, a former anchor who sued Mr. Ailes, and conducting an internal investigation into his conduct, the company tried hard to put the episode behind it.
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The ruling in Brown polled well, and Dahl didn't foresee the protracted unrest over school integration that was just over the horizon, politicizing a decision that the court tried hard to place above politics.
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I tasted each of Ripple's offerings, and while I tried hard to seek out some inherent planty-ness, the creamy mouthfeel and light sweetness made me a convert for any of my breakfast go-tos.
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It was the first time he felt disliked by the masses, and he was someone who had always tried hard to avoid disappointing or hurting people, said Steve Cleveland, his former coach at Fresno State.
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May, the episode has been simultaneously an embarrassment, a diplomatic setback and a lesson in just how hard it is to manage her relationship with Mr. Trump, a leader she has tried hard to cultivate.
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"They tried hard twice by flying around twice and asked [the flight tower] to check whether the nose wheel dropped or not," deputy director general of Myanmar's civil aviation department, Ye Htut Aung, told The Guardian.
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Stone seems to have exaggerated his WikiLeaks' connections, but the trial made it clear that the Trump campaign tried hard to take advantage of Russian cybercrimes in the 2016 election, and that Trump lied about it.
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"Maryland legislators tried hard here to specify with sufficient precision what kinds of price increases would be justifiable and which wouldn't be," says Rachel E. Sachs, an associate professor at the Washington University School of Law.
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Mr. Silberg also suggested that the number of wounds on the children told of a woman intent on killing, just as her two self-inflicted neck wounds proved she tried hard to end her own life.
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In it, the coworking company tried hard to defend its whopping $47 billion valuation, which is multiples larger than it would be worth if it were considered a real estate company like its main competitor IWG.
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All the same, it has tried hard to shed asbestos's associations with lung cancer and other diseases by rebranding its product as "chrysotile," the bland, technical name of the specific type of mineral it mostly mines.
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In those intervening generations, a majority of American Jews have tried hard to balance their liberalism with an identity that was also connected to tradition and religion, through Reform and Conservative Judaism, and an allegiance to Israel.
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The Australian government had tried hard to find a way to include Huawei and ZTE in the country's push to build the next generation of high-speed mobile internet, according to its former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull.
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We really have tried hard to make sure that we're doing a good job of communicating what this is, why it's important, I think, so far so good, but it is really hard and it takes time.
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"While we tried hard to avoid this step, there's no question that the scale of our 75-year-old pension plan — with 10 pensioners for every single active employee — is a reflection of another economic era," he said.
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I have tried hard to imagine what is in the heart of someone who offers "thoughts and prayers" after yet another massacre, but says "it's not the time" to even learn how to enact sensible regulation of guns.
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If Mr López Obrador cancels NAICM, which was designed by Norman Foster, a British architect, and is being built by a company controlled by Carlos Slim, Mexico's richest man, he will unnerve investors whose confidence he has tried hard to secure.
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Forty years later, Ralph Nader and his colleagues tried hard to help patients' plight, but neither Consumer Reports nor the 1973 Patient's Bill of Rights — a document that is still duly mounted on hospital walls everywhere — have made health care safe.
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Despite being devastated over the events of that night, Audrie tried hard to get her life back to normal, but she found it difficult after being subjected to vicious cyberbullying and harassment when the photos of her spread among her peers.
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The NFL tried hard (too hard?) to address social justice The NFL paid tribute to host Atlanta's rich civil rights history by inviting Congressman John Lewis, former Mayor Andrew Young and Bernice King, the youngest child of Martin Luther King Jr.
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While Trump tried hard to do just that with his unhinged speech in the wake of his acquittal on Thursday, even the wildness of those remarks didn't really slow what is a remarkably good run of news for the incumbent.
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Rail buffs have tried hard to change that, and the new route south from Seattle looked like one of their successes: an old freight line upgraded to smooth out and speed up Amtrak's Cascades passenger service in Washington and Oregon.
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"I think the hard thing is that we are always so careful, and we're both grandmas and we have really, really tried hard," said Hannon, who said the Chinese manufacturer mislabeled the fireworks and so she did not know they violated federal regulations.
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Officials tried hard, however, to make this election appear more democratic than previous ones (when Mrs Lam takes over on July 1st she will be the territory's fourth leader since the former colony was handed back to China by Britain in 1997).
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It was there that his mother and father — a newspaper ad sales person and a civil engineer for the city of Los Angeles, both now retired — had told Kalanick that he could do anything he wanted if he just tried hard enough.
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If you tried hard enough it looks like you could potentially put a new case on to make it look less like an air freshener, but have a look at the full teardown here and judge for yourself whether it's worth the effort.
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"The majority today essentially holds that, because private actors (the physicians) have not tried hard enough to mitigate the effects of the act (a conclusion contradicted by the district court's factual findings), those effects are not fairly attributable to the act," he wrote.
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" Merkel, whose office over the weekend released a photo of leaders and aides which illustrates the divide between Trump and his allies, said she had "tried hard to find a compromise and we fought hard for it ... this was an important announcement.
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Because here is the thing: Even if I researched that piece well, and tried hard, and had the best of intentions, and am pleased with it in sum, something I'd hoped would entertain and delight instead left some people feeling demeaned and unheard.
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As an unabashed champion of Alberta's oil industry, Mr. Harper tried hard to persuade the Obama administration to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have carried production from the province's oil sands to the refineries on the gulf coast of the United States.
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In a lengthy interview, the young man's father, Mohammad Muzafar Wani, said he had tried hard to influence the path of his son, a handsome youth who gelled his hair and changed his outfits twice a day, preferring Western-style T-shirts to traditional kurtas.
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Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonThe magic of majority rule in elections The return of Ken Starr Assault weapons ban picks up steam in Congress MORE's first budget efforts killed the Democratic majority as he tried hard to pass new taxes to pay for new spending.
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" Gorbachev has also spoken out against the move: Steven Pifer of the Brookings Institution argues for Axios Expert Voices that Trump has made a mistake and "it is not evident that the administration tried hard to save the treaty, perhaps because Bolton has long favored ditching it.
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The fact that I grew up in North Carolina, surrounded by Spruills, Garrisons, Faisons, Ramseys, and MacRaes—Mencken's last-name-as-first-name trend endures in the South—exacerbated my sense that my parents hadn't tried hard enough, that my name was neither particularly distinguished nor meaningful.
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The weather gods smiled on Houston with barely chill breezes during the cocktail hour, and the 1,000 or so invitation-only guests tried hard not to look like the lucky stiffs they knew they were as they filed into the Baker Institute's tented piazza for dinner.
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I knew who APOLO Ohno was, but got stuck all the way down the far right-hand side with both HOLSTERS (I knew Gustav Mahler and tried hard to make that work — this one was tough!) and ARNESS (the clue here seemed a little blind to me).
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Speaking softly and with palpable anguish, Mr. Walker recounted a physical fight this winter that he didn't start and didn't want, in which he tried hard not to hurt his attacker even as someone goaded him from the sidelines to do what he was trained to do.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has recently tried hard to avoid commenting on Trump, but told a townhall meeting in December that he condemns the sort of "hateful rhetoric" peddled by Trump, and went on to say that Trump was "scaring people" — without mentioning the candidate by name.
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She said was cleared by CAS on July 21 on the grounds that anti-doping officers had not followed procedure for the first missed test in Sweden last August and not tried hard enough to find her, though the Swiss-based Court has yet to confirm their judgment.
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But Mr. Clinton concluded that he would fare better if he appeared to focus on the people's business and tried hard not to get caught up in each day's developments as the House moved to impeach him for perjury and obstruction of justice in a sexual harassment lawsuit.
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The city was rebounding from an oil bust in the 1980s that crippled the economy, and it tried hard to present its best, and cleanest, face to the cameras and the visitors, picking up millions of pounds of trash, repaving roads and enlisting the aid of 12,000 volunteers.
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I took my boys' hands as we rode down the glass-walled elevator and whispered to them that everything would be O.K. I kept my eyes straight ahead and tried hard to walk purposefully — to keep from panicking or crying as we stepped into the crowd of travelers.
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It's the stuff from "Grind" where you're like: How do we pay tribute to the fact that not only did you succeed over and over again, but when you failed, you failed with such beautiful ideas, you failed for the best possible reason, you failed because you tried hard?
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Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the editor-in-chief of the Lawfare blog, recounts the tale told to him by Comey: But as he told me the story, he tried hard to blend into the background and avoid any one-on-one interaction.
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"Markets have tried hard to shrug off the implications of an escalating trade spat on global trade and growth but this is becoming harder with each fresh round of tariffs and will slowly but surely take its toll on investor sentiment," Jasper Lawler, head of Research at London Capital Group, said.
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Strategic patience and taking the long view comes naturally to Chinese leaders, and successive American presidents (except perhaps the current one) have tried hard to show that far from wanting to keep China in its box, they wish to see it playing a full and responsible part in the international system.
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The issue: The two companies have tried hard to keep confidential as much information as possible, often filing court documents that are mostly or entirely redacted, much to the frustration of the presiding judge who has warned them that it's in the public interest to keep the case publicly accessible.
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But he soon relaxed, and I was curious to hear who he was and why he did what he did, specifically, for work, and we probably tried hard to make each other laugh, and then we said good night and went our separate ways, an outcome that was never in doubt.
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And that's where "Fill in the Blank" comes in: Denial's defiantly buoyant opening track-cum-thesis is both a takedown and celebration of the anxiety suffered by a generation sick of being told by errant Baby Boomers that it hasn't tried hard enough—even if, in some ways, the Boomers are right.
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" Cunningham believes the judge "tried hard to strike the right balance" and expected he would grant the stay "just because of the simple math: appeals take a long, long time, so it's possible that, by the time it's finished, she already would have served all of her time — and you can't give someone back time.
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While the American team, trying to bounce back from a disastrous showing at the 2000 Olympics in Sochi, Russia, has tried hard to project a sense of placidity and collective well-being, Davis, the first African-American to win an individual gold medal at a Winter Olympics, has been more than happy to complicate that effort.
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In recent weeks, the president made a derogatory reference to Native Americans in front of Navajo guests, insinuated that a television host was involved in the death of an aide and prompted an international incident with Britain by retweeting inflammatory anti-Muslim videos — demonstrating the limits of a staff that has tried hard to steer him away from volatile territory.
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When it became clear that that was never part of the plan, interviews were arranged at the last minute with several senior officials, who tried hard to present Turkey's version of events to the world — and seemed flummoxed about why that message hasn't been making an impact and why misleading a group of reporters might not be the best way to improve things.
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Before Trump tweeted about Paris or protesters or his upcoming meeting with business leaders or even the nasty "FAKE NEWS" media, the president of the United States kept us up to date on his most pressing priority—his latest feud with Arnold Schwarzenegger: Yes, Arnold Schwarzenegger did a really bad job as Governor of California and even worse on the Apprentice...but at least he tried hard!
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"Joe tried hard to work with Republicans to craft a tax plan that helps middle class Hoosiers and doesn't cause skyrocketing deficits, but instead the McConnell tax plan will add as much as $2.2 trillion to the national debt over ten years -- billionaires like the Kochs get massive new tax breaks, while older Hoosiers get stuck with massive cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security to pay for it," he said.
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