Well first off, you can probably forget about trying to stop it.
Stop trying to do it all yourself.
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The centerpiece of Wolfe's work is trying to stop the next pandemic before it starts.
How about trying to play it cool and stop yourself from calling (or emailing, or texting) your love interest by blocking out all thoughts about that person?
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One, of course, was over the particular likelihood of a missile attack on the United States and thus the necessity of trying to develop a capability to stop it.
It's always fun to play against him, but when the puck drops it's just me trying to stop the puck.
In Iran, the president said, the government knows it must stop trying to enrich uranium for purposes of building a nuclear weapon.
Therefore, they solemnly intone, we should stop wasting lives and treasure trying to achieve it.
Once it gets started, trying to stop deflation is a lot like trying to halt a boulder bounding down a mountain.
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Strikingly, in most of the countries in which Coca-Cola and its bottlers are under investigation, it is accused of trying to stop retailers (and wholesalers) making Pepsi available.
"Trying to keep it from happening would have been like the Teamsters in the early 1900s trying to stop the combustion engine, " Lavin says.
And it also comes as Microsoft is trying to rewrite the rules for its dealings with computer security companies to stop them from revealing its security errors until it has found a cure for them - however long that takes.
He said his lawyers were trying to stop the ads but gave no explanation as to why it was taking so long.
But for federal authorities trying to put a stop to 3-D gun files, sharing it might already be too little, too late.
Now it looks like the retailers are also trying to stop Redbox.
Lagan Construction said the spillage was "regrettable" and it was now trying to find out how to stop the same thing happening again.
In the fiercely-competitive online brokerage industry, Charles Schwab has been on its toes trying to make sure it provides its customers with a one-stop solution for all their financial needs.
Sport and action cameras are big business, and even though there are a couple of main players, it doesn't stop other's trying to get a bite of the apple.
As a Sibos speaker noted some years ago, the front office will never stop trying to devise complex new ways to make money, and it certainly will not be deterred in its quest by any potential processing problems its innovations create for the back office.
It has already spent hundreds of thousands of pounds trying to stop the smells.
Molavi says it's popular both because it is a dramatic slice of life and because it shows Iranians feel a kinship even to those trying to stop the demonstrations.
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Perhaps an HP more focused on returning cash to shareholders would come to grips with the fact that it is a business in decline and should generate the cash it can, pay that out, and stop trying to chase growth opportunities by buying them.
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Now that all three of them are so huge in the UK, is it remotely plausible that they would suddenly emigrate and stop trying to sell as much as possible to British consumers if they suddenly faced tax bills comparable to those paid by less internationally mobile UK companies?
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Also stop trying to be Hollywood lacking the worldwide audiences customers and price infrastructure to support it .
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"I had decided that it was time for me to stop imitating Billy Joel and trying to imitate Elton John and making these huge production records, " he says.
Second, the company has to stop trying to be all things to all investors and make its stand on whether it sees itself more as a growth company or a more mature company.
It is no longer easy to build a sod house, though that didn't stop Merle Block from trying it himself about a decade ago.
Mark Musselman, an executive consultant for McGhee Productivity Solutions, in Denver, says one senior executive he coached was so frustrated after trying to learn a new system that "he was ready to throw up his arms and stop doing it" after a month.
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