He became a "free agent." For months,sports fans had tried to predict where the star would choose to play.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

President Pierce had tried to unite the different groups in the party by giving each a representative in his cabinet.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

It was the same town where abolitionist John Brown had tried to start a slave rebellion a few years before.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Emperor Norton's decree said John Brown had tried to capture the state of Virginia with only seventeen men.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

In the past,he noted, the national government had tried to divide free states from slave states by a line across a map.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

They had tried to arrest group members in the past for crimes such as robbery and murder.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

NASA scientists had tried to solve the problem by designing new tools for use in space.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

He later talked about what he had tried to do to help young people.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

He had tried to join several anarchist groups.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

Even as officials had tried to downplay the future al-Qaida threat, some had warned of a possible increase in Sunni-led violence.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

Israeli police shot and killed a Palestinian man who they say had tried to drive his car into them, an action they have labeled a terrorist attack.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

The United States had tried to mediate in the simmering dispute that led to the coup, centering on what Mr.Zelaya's opponents saw as an effort to remain in power even though obligated by term limits to leave office in January.

VOA: standard.2009.07.01

President Truman tried to stop the increases through a special price control agency that had been created during the war.

VOA: special.2011.08.11

He objected. He said if he had broken a law, he should be tried by a civilian court.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

I was only 12, but I tried to sound like I had been doing this for years.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

Professor Biernbaum tried hoop houses on the Student Organic Farm at Michigan State and had success.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

John Brown's lawyers tried to show that his family had a history of madness.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

Soon,the storm broke. The radicals tried something that had never been tried before.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

"Recently however, they have tried to raid some administrations in the localities,and that attempt had been effectively defeated by the local militia."

VOA: standard.2009.11.16