1.  These are trying times for the souls of Apple Macintosh users.

2.  We must not despond even though we live in trying times.

3.  The mother had always been the buttress of our family in trying times.

4.  And judging from the third-quarter results, the services unit is holding up pretty well in trying economic times.

5.  But Hitchcock is encouraged by the response of his veteran leadership, a group that went through trying times last season in a locker room that grew contentious.

6.  But these are trying times for magazines, what with picky readers being assaulted by thousands of titles, and other media competing noisily for their attention as well.

7.  But these are trying times for soldiers throughout the region.

8.  But these are trying times for the hedgies.

9.  But while struggling in races elsewhere, he has faced trying times off the track, as well.

10.  Compounding the risk, he chain-smoked cigarettes, a habit he tried innumerable times to break.