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I tried to lift the pallets to lower the pressure in the sound box, but I might have hit a heartstring.
And obviously I was happy because I got the instruments in my film for free, which was kind of what I tried to do.
In Brussels, when we tried desperately again and again to find common solutions, I realized that not one, not one of us, had ever dealt with a similar crisis.
As long as I've known, women in Saudi Arabia have been always complaining about the ban, but it's been 20 years since anyone tried to do anything about it, a whole generation ago.
I had learned that many people tried to cross the border to China in the nighttime to avoid being seen.
I decided to cross during the day, first because I was still a kid and scared of the dark, second because I knew I was already taking a risk, and since not many people tried to cross during the day, I thought I might be able to cross without being seen by anyone.
My father tried very hard to motivate me into studying, but it didn't work.
As I looked down at her in the bed, I thought to myself, if you just tried caring even a little bit, you wouldn't be in this situation at this moment with some doctor you've never met about to amputate your foot.
Well, we had no real reason to expect it would, and we tried hundreds and hundreds of these.
And where environmental sciences have typically tried to understand the world from what we see, a much fuller understanding can be got from what we hear.
In that process, I tried to combine the different bows from across time and places to create the most effective bow.
Think of all the years reformers of various stripes have tried to get rid of corruption in Russia, for instance, or how hard it is to re-regulate the banks even after the most profound financial crisis since the Great Depression, or even how difficult it is to get the big multinational companies, including those whose motto might be "don't do evil," to pay taxes at a rate even approaching that paid by the middle class.
So I tried to think what I could use for here, and a couple of weeks ago I had a crazy idea that I wanted to print two DJ decks and to try and mix some music.
They said, obviously tried to dissociate themselves from drugs, but said, "It reminds me of one thing and that's the value of the brand has stayed consistent."
Despite all that, I tried to understand him.
She said to me, "He listens to Fairuz with me, and one night, I tried to translate for him so he can feel what I feel when I listen to Fairuz."
So as soon as I tried to get near the piano, I was firmly shoved off.
So I climbed back into the capsule and just desperately tried to make sure that I was making the right decision.
What we know is that, if after you've tried to learn a task, and you sleep-deprive individuals, the ability to learn that task is smashed.
It stayed here and tried not to move any part of its body.
And then my Aunt Frances dies, and before she died, she tried to pay with Sweet'N Low packets for her bagel.
Things got a bit tricky when I tried to expense it at the company.
This sounds like a good theory, but I could talk for a long time, tell you lots of things, and a portion of them may be true, but I think it's better if I tried to show that to you here live.
Across the last few decades, we've tried to construct systems of accountability for all sorts of institutions and professionals and officials and so on that will make it easier for us to judge their trustworthiness.
They've tried this, actually.
In New York, in Chicago, in Washington, D.C., they've tried this, offering 50 dollars for an A, 35 dollars for a B. In Dallas, Texas, they have a program that offers eight-year-olds two dollars for each book they read.
If business pollutes, it makes more money than if it tried to reduce that pollution.
But the more deeply I got into all these social issues, one after another, and actually, the more I tried to address them myself, personally, in a few cases, through nonprofits that I was involved with, the more I found actually that the reality is the opposite.
Three hundred and fifty thousand people a day walk through Times Square, and people had tried for years to make changes.
Now, this technique has been tried on dozens of patients by other groups in Helsinki, so it may prove to be valuable as a treatment for phantom pain, and indeed, people have tried it for stroke rehabilitation.
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