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And as the victims' families and the city and the country reeled in shock, investigators tried to find out who was responsible.
They were only tried by a secret court.
And all these good values, I tried to inculcate in her personality.
More than 80 percent described having been threatened by the police, including with the possibility of being raped or killed in jail or being tried as an adult.
More than 70 percent of the teens in our study said that the police had tried to "befriend" them or indicate a desire to help them out during the interrogation.
We were able to accomplish this by developing a procedure that I tried to call the "one-step isothermal in vitro recombination method."
So I tried to come up with a seed shape, which, upon iteration, would unfold into this thing.
So for example, one person asked, what would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent of the speed of light?
And I've tried, I've met them a few times, tried asking them, and they aren't revealing anything.
He synthesized the molecule, and then tried the synthesized molecule on the males and got them to respond and showed it was, indeed, that molecule.
I first tried online dating my freshman year of college, which was in 2001, in case you can't see my wrinkle.
I really, really tried to use real-life experience while I was getting my degree, and my professors were not having it.
I've tried to become a better artist by becoming a better observer of images.
Every research direction that I tried led to a dead end.
And I tried again and again, conference after conference, but I wasn't getting through.
So I got out my yellow pad, I drew a line down the middle, and I tried my best to think of the reasons for and against each alternative.
I was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1983 to him, an Egyptian engineer, and a loving American mother and grade school teacher, who together tried their best to create a happy childhood for me.
They tried to sell all of their community gardens, and Bette Midler developed a nonprofit, the New York Restoration Project.
And one of the other policies we tried, and there were a whole bunch more, but one of the ones we tried was called Basic16, and the only requirement here was that your password had to have at least 16 characters.
So we tried a few different conditions.
So then we tried picking words that came from specific parts of speech, so how about noun-verb-adjective-noun.
Caesar had been a power-hungry tyrant who tried to make himself a king while consorting with his Egyptian queen Cleopatra.
Blaise Pascal was a 17th-century mathematician who tried to bring scientific reasoning to the question of whether or not he should believe in God, and his wager went like this: Well, if God doesn't exist but I decide to believe in him nothing much is really lost.
We tried to untangle that knot of not knowing to allow people to find what they need to make what they want to make.
As an example, one startup tried to claim work-life balance: "Come work for us because we are 996."
Even though we tried to do all the right things, we still received our customary flood of video protests and angry emails and even a package that had to be scanned by security, but we have to remember people care intensely about this stuff, and it's because these products, this work, really, really matters to them.
People actually tried to predict the future, even the economists.
Before the Internet, if you remember, when we tried to create services, what you would do is you'd create the hardware layer and the network layer and the software and it would cost millions of dollars to do anything that was substantial.
So my father tried to get the police on the phone, but perhaps terrified by the rising tide of armed extremism that had already claimed the lives of so many Algerian officers, they didn't even answer.
Abdirizak Bihi's studious 17-year-old nephew Burhan Hassan was recruited here in 2008, spirited to Somalia, and then killed when he tried to come home.
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