"That way, the Iraqis can't play us off one against the other, which they are clearly trying to do."

Nelson, though, was clearly trying to get his point across.

But he was clearly trying to make Congress feel the pain of military reductions.

I softened a bit since she was clearly trying so hard.

Some of the models were clearly trying to sort that out for themselves.

The minister bent down again and then came up, clearly trying to make sense of how things had gone so wrong.

Cohen's clearly trying to do something for the benefit of others.

Silence, a long one: He was clearly trying to score some sort of point by making them speak first.

He had a lot of enthusiasm for someone who was clearly trying to support a family on three dollars an hour.

So the argument has by a different course reached the same point; but we must try to state this even more clearly.