While he waited for an answer, the Spanish naval force tried to break out of Santiago Harbor.

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The man and the boy didn't say anything while he tried to start it.

在他准备开动时,那男人和男孩一言不发。

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He tried to show that his Democratic Party was a national party, while the Republican Party was a party only of the North.

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Kavanaugh holed up in a rented house just above the Sunset Strip and read physics books while he tried to figure out what to do next.

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While he tried to qualify this somewhat at the press conference with the caveat "when they are no longer needed, " he conveyed an impression of U.S. transience and determination to disengage from the Middle East that can only encourage its allies to hedge their bets by giving new weight to relations with Moscow.

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While it seems that he tried to assuage our anger with SyFy and with himself, repeating what we had already heard was probably not the best way to go about it.

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