Since Roberto Martinez arrived at Wigan last summer and since Owen Coyle turned up at Bolton last month, both have tried to get their teams playing passing football, but in these wretched conditions it was nigh-on impossible.
Now both writers have tried something different: single-volume narrative histories of the entire war.
Both firms have tried to soften the blow for those laid off.
Governments of both parties have tried to run the NHS, which employs over a million people, from behind the minister's desk in Whitehall - that can never be successful.
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Both parties have tried to convince the public that in order to secure a stronger country in the future, they must make short-term sacrifices to get through the European financial crisis.
Not only have both countries tried to protect manufacturing jobs with employment-protection laws, but a tangle of red tape also discourages the creation of new jobs in services.
Successive governments have tried both carrot and stick, to no avail.
Both US Airways and American have tried to charge customers fees just to sit in the front of the coach cabin.
Both Burkle and the Tom Gores have tried their hands in the Hollywood game before.
Both Serbian and Albanian political parties have tried to make political capital out of the week's events.
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It's not the first time both the administration and congressional Republicans have tried to call each other's bluff over the spending cuts.
Both Carrefour and the French government have tried to repair the damage.
Both Dr Brady and Dr Aguilar have tried to play ulama themselves, but Dr Aguilar says that, although some of his graduate students persevered for longer, the bruises he sustained from the heavy ball caused him quickly to abandon playing the game.
Geneticists have tried to have it both ways when it comes to genetic diversity.
So far the central banks, led by America's Federal Reserve, have tried to have it both ways.
Security sweeps in Conakry have tried to round up both Sierra Leonean rebels and Guinean dissidents hiding among them.
His general answer on Social Security tried to have it both ways.
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From that point on, I have tried to do what I can both at home and at work to lessen the impact.
And I think you know, because you covered it, that we have tried it all ways -- both ways, if you will -- and that includes lots of negotiations and sitting across the table with leaders in Congress.
The Lib Dems have tried to leave the door open for both to return to the assembly by tabling motions to overturn their disqualifications.
Politicians and civil servants who have tried blogging have found it remarkably difficult to be both interesting and sensible.
Unfortunately, too many governments in emerging markets have tried to quell inflation and reduce popular anger by subsidising the prices of both food and fuel.
For even as our leaders tried to forget what we as a people have always known, our history - both ancient and modern - is testament to the truth of Zaki's statement.
We understand that concerns have been expressed, and we've tried to address those concerns as bluntly as we can, both publicly and privately in our briefings of members of Congress.
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