Translation of "Krampfhaft versuchen" in English

There's a story here, or you guys wouldn't be trying so hard to keep me from it.

Much is expected of us and we try desperately to live up to those expectations.

I have to say quite honestly that I fear the campaign chest contains some money which our taxpayers might have provided, whereas the opposition has to try desperately to raise funds abroad in order to conduct its election campaign, in order to establish itself as a proper opposition, and the resources for that are non-existent.

There are people in the States right now tying themselves into knots, trying to figure out whether or not bloggers are journalists.

I have to say quite honestly that I fear the campaign chest contains some money which our taxpayers might have provided, whereas the opposition has to try desperately to raise funds abroad in order to conduct its election campaign, in order to establish itself as a proper opposition, and the resources for that are non-existent.

Altogether this brew reminds me of the crossover hype in the early 90’s. But, to my luck, SZEG don’t desperately try to be evil or funny.

The American writer Eli Pariser quotes a Google search engineer reflecting on the company's famous motto: "Don't be evil". "We try really hard not to be evil," said this Google insider, "but if we wanted to, man, could we ever!"

Failing to see that, we shall all the time be struggling to bring ourselves to death.

No wonder that more and more Business directory with ever greater efforts, often try desperately to become part of these conversations.

Thrillers about money mostly have problems with the fact that moviemakers desperately try to create some sort of suspense, even though we only get to see numbers being pushed around on computer screens.

If we try to forcibly make things happen, it will actually close us off from our New Landscape.

The piece would not be worth mentioning only for the fact that it illustrates the central problem with “Monditalia” in an ever so blatant fashion: The majority of contributions desperately try to be “art” – this is a Biennale after all!

Okay, glad to see you're not reaching for reasons to hate her.

You're spending your life trying to please a dead man.

A frantic attempt to stop the erosion of the severely diminished mass base.

I have got to make people believe that I'm worthy of following in his footsteps.

If I, as an opera singer, try too hard to be hip, then I’ve already lost.

If central banks keep missing these rather narrow marks (“below, but close to 2%”), they end up in an expectations trap, whereby markets expect them to dispense ever higher doses of monetary medicine in a frantic attempt to reach their target.

Try to glimpse into my cleavage when I am sitting and reading in the metro.

Another mistake many girl combos do in my opinion is the desperate attempt to come across as somehow "crazy".

Maybe too much focus is put on them instead of the other instruments, maybe it´s his English pronunciation or maybe it´s the sometimes desperate attempts to sound hard and heavy.

As I sit here at my desk in Richmond, trying very hard to come up with something thoughtful and reflective, I find that I can't even form the right words in my mind.

Do not, however, make frantic efforts to attract his attention, plaguing him with jerky movements and such attention diverters as, “See, baby, see the pretty watch!” and if that fails to have an instantaneous effect, jumping to some other object.