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The final structure of the abscess is an abscess wall, or capsule, that is formed by the adjacent healthy cells in an attempt to keep the pus from infecting neighboring structures.
In 868, Alfred is recorded as fighting beside Æthelred in an unsuccessful attempt to keep the invading Danes led by Ivar the Boneless out of the adjoining Kingdom of Mercia.
It was assumed by the revolutionaries that reactionary and monarchist forces preferred regional languages in an attempt to keep the peasant masses under-informed.
The one-drop rule may have originated as a means of increasing the number of black slaves and been maintained as an attempt to keep the white race pure.
It appears that the edict was made in an attempt to preserve the current price of gold and to keep the Empire's coinage on silver, Rome's traditional metal currency.
The Darwin Awards books state that an attempt is made to disallow known urban legends from the awards, but some older " winners " have been ' grandfathered ' to keep their awards.
In 1516, after a failed Navarrese-French attempt to expel the Spanish invaders from the kingdom, an attempt in which Francis ' brothers had taken part, the Spanish Castilian kingdom's Governor, Cardinal Cisneros, ordered family lands to be confiscated, the demolition of the outer wall, the gates and two towers of the family castle, the moat was filled, and the height of the keep was reduced in half.
In an attempt to keep control of the process and prevent the Assembly from convening, Louis XVI ordered the closure of the Salle des États where the Assembly met, making an excuse that the carpenters needed to prepare the hall for a royal speech in two days.
Stith Thompson made a major attempt to index the motifs of both folklore and mythology, providing an outline into which new motifs can be placed, and scholars can keep track of all older motifs.
Despite the attempt to keep the show fresh, the changes alienated many of its longtime viewers while failing to gain the hoped-for younger viewers, and the ratings continued their decline.
" In an attempt to keep control of the process and prevent the Assembly from convening, Louis XVI ordered the closure of the Salle des États where the Assembly met.
# Mitigation-In case of any loss or casualty, the asset owner must attempt to keep loss to a minimum, as if the asset was not insured.
At the outbreak of war in August 1914, the governors of British East Africa ( as the Protectorate was generally known ) and German East Africa agreed a truce in an attempt to keep the young colonies out of direct hostilities.
Prospects were daunting: his father had spent a considerable fortune in the attempt to cast steel in large ingots, and to keep the works going the widow and family lived in extreme frugality.
In an attempt to keep the speech out of American papers journalists were not contacted, and on the same day Truman called a press conference to take away headlines.
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 local government attempt to shut the night markets down in this year, but with the decline of the government's authority by the mid 9th century, this edict ( like many others ) is largely ignored as urban dwellers keep attending the night markets regardless.
She has famously been quoted since as stating that she has " no memory of this tour " due to her increasing dependency on the tranquillizer Klonopin, prescribed in ever increasing amounts by a psychiatrist between 1987 and 1994 in an attempt to keep Nicks from regressing to her former abuse of cocaine.
Her foremast, already in bad shape before the battle, was struck by several French cannonballs, and her pumps, already overtaxed in an attempt to keep her afloat, were badly damaged by shots " between wind and water ".
In the act, lead comedian Healy would attempt to sing or tell jokes while his noisy assistants would keep " interrupting " him.
In an attempt to " clean up " Berlin, the German Ministry of the Interior authorized the chief of police to arrest all Romani ( Gypsies ) and keep them in a " special camp ," the Berlin-Marzahn concentration camp.
King Richard I of England introduces a new Great Seal in an attempt to keep the war against France funded.
While out of office, Thompson organized a " scientific " expedition to search for tree-climbing fish in the South Seas ( actually just a crude attempt to keep his name in the public eye — the expedition never got farther than New Orleans ).
In early 1991, Infotechnology filed for bankruptcy, announced layoffs at UPI and sought to terminate certain employee benefits in an attempt to keep UPI afloat.

attempt and sawmill
In a successful attempt to reduce the splintering and damage to logs from falling down the steep trenches the owner of the Wengenville sawmill, Lars Anderson, used a combination of tramway, winches, winders and flying foxes to transport logs.

attempt and open
It should attempt to communicate both an appreciation of professional standards and an understanding of the tremendous powers and potentialities of genuinely open and pluralistic societies.
* Alvyn Basic — An attempt to recreate an open source multiplatform BASIC interpreter, syntax-compatible with AMOS Professional.
The barn was set on fire in an attempt to force them out into the open.
Drop kicks are also mandatory to restart play from the 20 metre line after an unsuccessful penalty goal attempt goes dead or into touch-in-goal and to score a drop goal ( sometimes known as a field goal ) in open play, which is worth one point.
Ford's concern with the social issues addressed in Work prompted him to open a soup kitchen for Manchester's hungry, and to attempt to aid the city's unemployed to find work by founding a labour exchange.
Both nations also attempt to maintain open communications at high levels of both Governments.
* Many patients with existing pulmonary disorders may not tolerate pneumoperitoneum ( gas in the abdominal cavity ), resulting in a need for conversion to open surgery after the initial attempt at laparoscopic approach.
In 1861 the Confederacy claimed the southern tract as its own Arizona Territory and waged the ambitious New Mexico Campaign in an attempt to control the American Southwest and open up access to Union California.
However, they were unsuccessful in their attempt to secure a trademark for ' open source ' to control the use of the term.
In 149 BC, in an attempt to draw Carthage into open conflict, Rome made a series of escalating demands, one being the surrender of three hundred children of the nobility as hostages, and finally ending with the near-impossible demand that the city be demolished and rebuilt away from the coast, deeper into Africa.
Bacon's philosophy of using an inductive approach to nature — to abandon assumption and to attempt to simply observe with an open mind — was in strict contrast with the earlier, Aristotelian approach of deduction, by which analysis of known facts produced further understanding.
An open appeal published in Die Zeit, signed by Adorno, called for an inquiry into the social reasons that gave rise to this assassination attempt as well as an investigation into the Springer Press ' manipulation of public opinion.
But at the first lecture Adorno's attempt to open up the lecture and invite questions whenever they arose degenerated into a disruption from which he quickly fled: after a student wrote on the blackboard " If Adorno is left in peace, capitalism will never cease ," three women students approached the lectern, bared their breasts and scattered flower petals over his head.
Most basic strategies are an attempt to create open lanes on the field for the exchange of the disc between the thrower and the receiver.
From this position, players in the stack make cuts ( sudden sprints out of the stack ) towards or away from the handler in an attempt to get open and receive the disc.
If cutters cannot get open, the handlers swing the disc side to side in an attempt to reset the stall count while also getting the defense out of position.
They may cut in towards the disc and attempt to find an open avenue between defenders for a short pass, or they may cut away from the disc towards the deep field.
* The American minister to China takes five warships to attempt to " open up " Korea, but his forces leave after exchanges of fire result in 250 Koreans dying and the Korean government still unwilling to make any concessions.
The Centre Party, led by the mayor of Tallinn Edgar Savisaar, has been increasingly excluded from collaboration, since his open collaboration with Putin's United Russia party, real estate scandals in Tallinn, and the Bronze Soldier controversy, considered as a deliberate attempt of splitting the Estonian society by provoking the Russian minority.
The army attempting to relieve Narbonne met him in open battle at the Battle of the River Berre and was destroyed, but Charles failed in his attempt to take Narbonne by siege in 737, when the city was jointly defended by its Muslim Arab and Berber, and its Christian Visigothic citizens.
Some makers of snacks such as potato chips or crisps have produced baked versions of their snack items as an alternative to the usual cooking method of deep-frying in an attempt to reduce the calorie or fat content of their snack products. Baking has opened up doors to businesses like cake making factories and privatised cake shops but the baking process is done in a more larger mass in bigger and open furnaces.
* The first failed attempt to open a Latin rhetorical school.
( It is open to interpretation whether he deliberately kills himself or just makes a risky escape attempt.
In view of the fact that in May 1992 the Central Referendum Commission had validated 384, 000 of the 442, 000 signatures collected ( exceeding the 350, 000 signatures required by law ), the BPF opposition accused the Supreme Soviet's conservative majority of an open violation of the republic's constitution and of an attempt to retain power by illegal means.
Charles V made overtures to the Safavid Empire to open a second front against the Ottomans, in an attempt at creating a Habsburg-Persian alliance.

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