Yet corporate top management invariably tries hard to force each unit into an overarching strategy.
At least one big European bank in Moscow tries hard to send multinationals elsewhere.
Conscientious and sensitive, he tries hard to win the inmates' trust and to evade their practised wiles.
Set in a world where entire upscale companies are run by African-Americans, this Eddie Murphy vehicle tries hard to be positive.
Mr Moran tries hard to avoid taking sides, although the reader may suspect that his sympathies may lie more with the protesters than the road-builders.
Kathleen Barry's history of how gracious stewardesses turned into sexy air hostesses and then into tough, grumpy flight attendants tries hard to be dull, but thankfully does not quite succeed.
De Bont, who seems to be fighting artistic flab, tries hard to convince us that we should be freaked out by billowing curtains and banging doors a gallant effort that should nonetheless be met with the scornful laughter that it deserves.
It seems the western media tries hard to pick a new problem of russia first it was economic crisis, then unemployment, inflation, democracy, growth, diversification and now they try out mainly corruption and rule of law and the latest seems now to be emigration.
Of course, the story is over-the-top and absurd and tries too hard to be relevant.
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"Generally speaking, the military tries very hard not to get involved in political campaigns, " he said.
"It's obvious he tries very hard to understand our side, " says Pete Domenici, the Senate Budget Committee chairman.
"The Polar Express" wants to be an uplifting holiday film, but it tries too hard to make its point.
She tries so hard to avoid sentimentality that it's easy to hear her meticulously following the script that she knows she's supposed to follow.
At the same time, he reviles "the new bad taste, " which he defines as entertainment that tries too hard to shock and lacks inventiveness and wit.
But the media tries so hard to come off neutral.
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That's why Bragman, who most recently mopped up the mess of Grey's Anatomy cast-off Isaiah Washington, tries very hard to convince his clients that just because they can get press, doesn't mean they should.
As Jerome Littlefield, an aspiring doctor whose debilitating sympathetic hypochondria reduces him to menial labor at a sanatorium, Lewis is both a flustered klutz who tries too hard and a soft-spoken, painfully sincere Everymensch.
In short, Ms Coulter tries too hard.
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In the picture book category, Rebecca Cobb - who has illustrated books by The Gruffalo creator, Julia Donaldson - has been shortlisted for Lunchtime, while Chris Haughton features for a second year running with Oh No George, about a dog who tries very hard to be well-behaved.
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An ex who is successful at winning back the love of his life already knows what he needs to do without having to ask, he knows his past works against him so tries extra hard to overcome past history, and he backs up what he says with actions and real substance.
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But however hard he tries, he will not be able to make it entirely boring.
The U.S. cannot achieve energy security on its own through energy independence, no matter how hard it tries.
She tries to find some hard truths in the role, and she makes Emily angry, vague, and even a little dim.
In an era where every joint tries a little too hard to look like something it's not, the no-effort approach comes as a relief.
Early NBA is as scattershot as the debut of a new restaurant no matter how hard the staff tries, you're going to get someone else's cold pumpkin soup.
This school of thought believes that a debt restructuring is therefore inevitable no matter who wins the election, and no matter how hard the new president tries to stick with conservative economic policies.
Both defences looked so strong that tries were always going to be hard to come by, and when the next one came along, it was set up by Flannery's angled run ripping a hole in the Rhinos defence, allowing Roby to finish off an attacking move he had himself started.
To conserve the Trust's hard-raised money, Heller tries to get free gifts of land.
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