1.   The old priest tried to put them off, saying that the hour was late.

2.   If the village priest tried to intervene, he would be overrun, trampled, cursed by the crowd.

3.   A priest tried to console her by saying that maybe her daughter had left the country.

4.   A scene in which the priest tries to teach Gustavito not to smoke vibrates with ambivalence and suppressed eroticism.

5.   After priests tried for several hours to talk the peace activists out of their demands, Israeli riot police entered the compound, handcuffed them and forcibly removed them.

6.   Dealing with the tragedy here has been difficult for the community, but the priests are trying to forgive.

7.   Pona said the incident followed at least five occasions in which the priest tried to approach him sexually.

8.   Priests tried, without much success, to persuade children to dress as saints rather than as, say, skeletons or vampires.

9.   Some priests were trying to ignore or suppress their attraction to adult men and ended up in furtive relationships with teen-age boys.

10.   A priest soon tried to enter the class.