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Its laws, guidelines, and opinions cover a vast range of situations and principles, in the attempt to realize what is implied by the central Biblical commandment to " be holy as I your God am holy ".
The barrage was supposed to provide tactical cover for an attempt by a squad of Hezbollah special forces to abduct Israeli troops in the Israeli side of the village of Al-Ghajar.
Riders will keep to the black line at the bottom of the track to ensure they have to cover the least distance over the 1000 m. Riders usually only get 1 attempt to set a time, and the winner of the event is simply the rider to post the quickest time.
# The unity of place: a play should cover a single physical space and should not attempt to compress geography, nor should the stage represent more than one place.
The Lascelles Principles were an attempt to create a convention to cover similar situations, but have not been tested in practice.
According to stories that may have legendary elements, an attempt was made to seize William at Valognes, but he escaped under cover of darkness, seeking refuge with King Henry.
People had quickly moved from this coach towards the back end, in an attempt to seek cover.
In an attempt to make his new album a success, Prince easily gave more interviews than at any other point in his career, appearing on MTV's Total Request Live ( with his album cover on the front of the Virgin Megastore, in the background on TRL throughout the whole show ), Larry King Live ( with Larry Graham ) and other media outlets.
The most disturbing part of the Harper's cover story ( the one by Chris Hedges ) was the attempt to link Christian conservatives with Hitler and fascism.
Three U. S. servicemen who had tried to halt the massacre and protect the wounded were initially denounced by several U. S. Congressmen as traitors in an attempt to cover up the massacre.
The greater the pain and pathos of an experience, the greater the urgency to explore and resolve it, rather than attempt to cover it up or dismiss it.
The cover story of the May / June 1998 issue entitled Plain Crazy: The Joint Strike Fighter Story discussed the development of a new set of military fighter jets that could " blow a hole in the attempt to create a leaner Post-Cold War military.
The actors attempt to cover up a series of mishaps but only compound the problems and draw attention to the bungling performance.
Sometimes an attempt to cover up a possible scandal ignites a greater scandal when the cover-up fails.
While this was a successful attempt to re-create the amalgam of styles found on the previous album, the band once again depended almost exclusively on cover material.
In this case, neither global nor local alignment is entirely appropriate: a global alignment would attempt to force the alignment to extend beyond the region of overlap, while a local alignment might not fully cover the region of overlap.
Except for Severus Snape ( staying at Hogwarts to " maintain his cover "), those dead, imprisoned, or afraid to return, the majority returned to his service as Lord Voldemort began his second attempt to claim power.
Sutherland did attempt to cover newer bands but one cover feature on Godspeed You!
In practice, Blücher's attempt to disengage proved extremely difficult to execute, as the Coalition force was by now in an advanced position, had virtually no cavalry present to cover its retreat and was facing an enemy who was ready to commit its numerous cavalry.
When a scandal breaks, the discovery of an attempt to cover up is often regarded as even more reprehensible than the original deeds.
Two years later, Afua Cooper published a book on Angélique in English, which champions the thesis that Angélique did start the 1734 fire, as a justified rebellion against her owner and as a cover for an escape attempt.
Nixon, in an attempt to expand the understanding ofthe principle of confidentiality ” to cover his own specific refusal to cooperate with Congress, used the abstractness of the term to his benefit.
An item which makes no attempt to deceive, such as a copy of a DVD with missing or different cover art, is often called a " bootleg " or a " pirated copy " instead.

attempt and up
But for the United States and its SEATO allies to attempt to shore up a less tough, less combat-tested government army in monsoon-shrouded, road-shy, guerrilla-th'-wisp terrain is a risk not savored by Pentagon planners.
Alex wakes up in hospital, where he is courted by government officials anxious to counter the bad publicity created by his suicide attempt.
As debates raged in an attempt to come up with a new formula, three camps evolved among the opponents of the Nicene creed.
He considered the war a blatant attempt to extend slavery and asked if the country was made up of " a people bent on conquest, on getting the golden treasures of Mexico into our hands, and of subjugating foreign peoples?
Andronikos III's attempt to make up for this setback by annexing Bulgarian Thrace failed in 1332, when he was defeated by the new Bulgarian Emperor Ivan Alexander at Rousokastron.
When AI researchers attempt to " scale up " their systems to handle more complicated, real world situations, the programs tend to become excessively brittle without commonsense knowledge or a rudimentary understanding of the situation: they fail as unexpected circumstances outside of its original problem context begin to appear.
God calls up a great storm at sea, and the ship's crew cast Jonah overboard in an attempt to appease God.
Bliss stated that his own work was an attempt to take up the thread of Leibniz ’ s project.
Two months later, on 1 March 1978, Chaplin's coffin was dug up and stolen from its grave by two unemployed mechanics, Polish Roman Wardas and Bulgarian Gantcho Ganev, in an attempt to extort money from Chaplin's widow, Oona Chaplin.
In Eleusis, for example, players play single cards, and are told whether the play was legal or illegal, in an attempt to discover the underlying rules made up by the dealer.
In particular, an attempt by the Legislative Assembly to approve a law that opened up the electricity and telecommunication markets ( controlled by a monopoly of the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity-ICE ) to market competition, known as the " Combo " law, was met with strong social opposition.
During this period, the marketing department followed the lead of Detroit automobile manufacturers and came up with many marketing slogans and buzzwords to describe Cessna ’ s product line in an attempt to place their products ahead of the competition.
On his fifth attempt, a baseball entered his glove at what could be estimated to be up to 154 mph.
" She summed up her driving work ethic, " I can say this: When I attempt anything, I have a passionate determination to overcome every obstacle … And I do my own work with a refusal to accept defeat that might almost be called painful.
As a procedural alternative, plaintiff's counsel may attempt to sign up every similarly-situated person that counsel can find as a client.
Co-emperor alongside his brothers, his short reign saw the beginnings of conflict emerge between the sons of Constantine the Great, and his attempt to exert his perceived rights of primogeniture ended up causing his death in a failed invasion of Italy in 340.
Plotinus criticizes his opponents for “ all the novelties through which they seek to establish a philosophy of their own ” which, he declares, “ have been picked up outside of the truth ”; they attempt to conceal rather than admit their indebtedness to ancient philosophy, which they have corrupted by their extraneous and misguided embellishments.
The force got about half way before abandoning the attempt because the railway line had been torn up.
Aggressive head on bumping or " charging " of a player with the ball is often described as " rough play " and is a reportable offence, this is particularly so if a player is deemed to have their head down over the ball in an attempt to picking it up off the ground when the bump is applied or contact is made above the shoulders.
As the reception gets under way, Gareth ( Simon Callow ) instructs his friends to go forth and seek potential mates ; Fiona's brother, Tom ( James Fleet ), stumbles through an attempt to connect with the minister's wife, while Charles's flatmate, Scarlett ( Charlotte Coleman ), strikes up a conversation with a tall, attractive American named Chester.
They eventually rose up in an attempt to regain their rights ; but their story is not told here.
Among measures taken by Conte to try and shore up his support within the military after 2007 was the transfer of the ' popular Sékouba Konaté to Conakry to head the parachute Autonomous Battalion of Airborne Troops ( French acronym BATA ) in an attempt to calm the troops.
It has even been reported, although apparently without historical documentation, that Adolf Hitler was influenced by concave hollow-Earth ideas and sent an expedition in an unsuccessful attempt to spy on the British fleet by pointing infrared cameras up at the sky
During the 16th century the Portuguese were able to establish permanent markets up the Zambezi River in an attempt to gain political and military control of Mutapa.
Most of these arguments will be followed up by a conversion attempt, with promises of redemption for supposed misdeeds or glory, riches and power.

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