31.   If a community board makes a strong case for a garden, she said, the city will try to find an alternative development site.

32.   If it works in northwest Seattle, the city may try the same approach in other parts of town.

33.   If traffic speed is a problem, the city first will try signs, including stop signs at intersections.

34.   In Cleveland, building the baseball and basketball complex touched off a wave of development that the city had tried for years to create, with little success.

35.   In an effort to cope with the out-of-control moveable fest, the city tried everything from mobilizing goodwill ambassadors to ordering police crackdowns.

36.   In the past decade, the city tried every trick in the book to revitalize downtown.

37.   It also strongly suggested that the city would try to release the new operators from the terms of current labor contracts.

38.   It was a time when cities were trying to save their downtowns.

39.   Like the hundreds of workers Balfour left behind, the city is trying to move on.

40.   Members of the National League of Cities are exasperated over the heated bidding as one city tries to top another to lure pro sports teams.