Kodak is an example of a firm that was very much aware that they had to adapt, and spent a lot of money trying to do so, but ultimately failed.

With Mr Jobs gone, Apple is just one of many technology firms trying to arouse his uncontrollable spirit in new products.

I'm not interested in what you're trying to teach, all I care about is stealing a grade, regardless of the effect on others.

The Phoenix, in Mid-Levels, offers the widest interpretation of "British cuisine", while still trying to maintain its soul.

Researchers in Canada just published a study in the journal Psychological Science that says trying to get people to think more positively can actually have the opposite effect: it can simply highlight how unhappy they are.

You are trying to make him feel better about his faults

The car driver was trying to avoid hitting a rabbit.

After her unhappy marriage to a man who was trying to control her without considering her wishes and feelings ,she says, " it's very important to me to carry my own weight

I imagine that what my parents were trying to teach me was to take responsibilities for my actions and my choices.

Shawn's been trying for months to find a job.

Humanity also has been obsessed with trying to capture the meaning of time

What message is the speaker trying to convey?

He has done it by exploring, by experimenting, by developing his own model of the grammar of language, by trying it out and seeing whether it works, by gradually changing it and refining it until it does work.

A child's ability to become deeply absorbed in something, and derive intense pleasure from that absorption, is something adults spend the rest of their lives trying to return to.

Consider trying to remember where you parked your car in the same car park you were at a week earlier.

first trying physical exercise and dieting, she lost some weight and discovered an inner strength.

Here comes Chauncy, just trying to get food for him and his Mom off of the grace of other people.

He's always trying to make trouble.

I feel awful whenever I make a mistake in whatever I'm trying to do.

If we started trying different materials,our quality would probably suffer.

I'm always trying to be as good as others, but I never seem to get there.

In response to those restrictions, grain-importing countries are trying to nail down long-term trade agreements that would lock up future grain supplies.

Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems?

It has been trying out monitoring stations that are intended to yield minute-to-minute maps of outdoor air pollution.

It's also the age range when many women are trying to balance careers and home.

Many spend their lives trying to avoid arguments.

since then, I have been trying to attend dancing classes twice a week after work.

The world is dotted with futuristic, high-tech cities trying to attract the biggest international companies.

This type of memory where you are trying to remember new, but similar informatio is particularly vulnerable to interference.

We're not trying to assign blame or criticize anyone or call anyone consciously sexist.

When I told a group of school children who displayed helpless behavior that a lack of effort led to their mistakes in math, they learned to keep trying when the problems got tough.

"I'm trying three methods of breeding," Farrant says: conventional, genetic modification and gene editing.

"The yield is never going to be high," Farrant says, so these plants will be targeted not at Iowa farmers trying to squeeze more cash out of high-yield fields, but subsistence farmers who need help to survive a drought like the present one in South Africa

"This is really about trying to cut through the confusion that consumers have when they are buying a product and that businesses have when they are selling a product," said Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the commission.

But here you're trying to promote this great music genre.

But that won't stop inventors from dreaming up new ways to fly and trying to persuade investors to back their sometimes outrageous schemes.

He points to a classic 2004 study in which psychologists at Dartmouth College and Harvard University used functional MRI to track brain activity in 17 young men as they listened to descriptions of people while concentrating on either socially relevant cue

If you are at home trying to decide where to go for dinner, however, the knowledge component may prevail, and you decide to go where you can eat a healthier meal.

If you're trying to build resilience at work, you need adequate internal and external recovery periods.

In response to past critics, Twenge and her co-researchers stress they are not trying to prove that the use of digital devices reduces young people's well-being.

Instead of trying to refine old formulas, they invent new ones.

My school didn't come pre-packaged like the more popular options, so we were left to take care of ourselves, figuring out city life and trying to complete degree programs that no one was championing for us to succeed in.

Now they are trying to figure out what molecular signaling processes activate those seed-building genes in resurrection plants—and how to reproduce them in crops.

Other studies have found that even infants in East Asia sleep about an hour less than European infants, so we're trying to figure out how culture shapes the way you sleep.

Some doctors see a potential conflict in trying to be both providers of patient care and financial overseers.

Starr recently conducted a small study that found that adding extra protein foods to the diet of obese older individuals who were trying to lose weight strengthened their muscles.

The misconception of resilience is often bred from an early age, parents trying to teach their children resilience might celebrate a high school student staying up until 3am to finish a science fair project.

There're steps we can take that would make some difference, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel is trying some of them—yet the union is resisting.

This can create unnecessary delays as you hold meetings trying to achieve consensus.

This isn't really what my wife is trying to criticize me about.

This time around, Twenge and her team make a point of saying that they are not trying to establish causes as such, but that they are assessing the plausibility of potential causes.

victorians started putting women in a box, and they're still trying to crawl out of it.

"We're in no way trying to silence parents' voices, " Steinberg says.

When psychologists and educators test for learning styles, they're trying to figure out whether these are inherent traits that affect how well students learn instead of just a preference.