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Following graduation, he established several experimental schools after an unsuccessful attempt to start a neo-Hassidic community in the Negev desert, and, at the age of 23, became Israel ’ s youngest school principal.
Friedrich Klaeber somewhat led the attempt to connect Beowulf and Virgil near the start of the 20th century, claiming that the very act of writing a secular epic in a Germanic world is contingent on Virgil.
If we do not attempt to look back at an event, the greater the interval time between the time when the event from happening and the time when we try to remember, the memory will start to fade.
One can even start from an established classical model of a particular system, then attempt to guess the underlying quantum model that would give rise to the classical model in the correspondence limit.
The teams start with the rope's centre line directly above a line marked on the ground, and once the contest ( the " pull ") has commenced, attempt to pull the other team such that the marking on the rope closest to their opponent crosses the centre line, or the opponents commit a foul ( such as a team member sitting or falling down ).
After a failed attempt in the 1930s to start an Israeli movement, the World Union for Progressive Judaism tried again in the 1970s and created the movement now known as the Israeli Progressive Movement.
A group of four skiers start simultaneously and attempt to reach the end of the course.
* In a telecommunications system, access time is the delay between the start of an access attempt and successful access.
The transition got off to a shaky start because, contrary to SWAPO President Sam Nujoma's written assurances to the UN Secretary General to abide by a cease-fire and repatriate only unarmed Namibians, it was alleged that approximately 2, 000 armed members of the People's Liberation Army of Namibia ( PLAN ) SWAPO's military wing, crossed the border from Angola in an apparent attempt to establish a military presence in northern Namibia.
Midwinter is using The Brain to organise his own intelligence agency and private army which will soon start an uprising in Soviet-occupied Latvia in an attempt to end Communism in the Eastern bloc and tip the balance of the Cold War in favour of the West.
* Memphis Southmen ( had started out as the Toronto Northmen, but moved to Memphis, Tennessee before the start of the season ) 1974 – 1975 / Memphis Grizzlies 1975 (" official " team change name to Grizzlies after league folded in attempt to join the NFL ).
Brown's attempt in 1859 to start a liberation movement among enslaved African Americans in Harpers Ferry, Virginia electrified the nation.
In this section, the player as Guybrush has to stop the crew's singing-however, at each attempt, they just start a new stanza rhyming to the player's line, until he says a line ending with the word " orange " making the song unable to continue.
Whether this was intended as a tax dodge or as an attempt to start his own ' Barry is Also Dead ' rumour never became clear.
Lao Ai seized the queen mother's seal and mobilized an army in an attempt to start a coup and rebel.
However, suits that are well represented in the start may also be dangerous since a few middle value cards may be lost at the beginning through discard while players attempt to solidify a suit to capture.
After one attempt at repairing the engine failed, Engineer Albert Lodge made the decision to switch engines and start again making it from Fleming to Jesup in less than 33 minutes.
In September 1985, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled the attempt was invalid as state law required two cities to start any attempt at consolidation, and only Fairview had initiated this attempt.
Albin made news in the regional media for a failed attempt to start a charter school in their town.
In the Pern series, McCaffrey attempts to portray a society caught between its attempt to build a utopian dream and a grim and inescapable reality, which from the start forced exceptionally hard choices.
Hybrid methods, known as semiglobal or " glocal " ( short for global-local ) methods, attempt to find the best possible alignment that includes the start and end of one or the other sequence.
In this approach, you start with the three physical constants ħ, c, and G, and attempt to combine them to get a quantity with units of mass.
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.

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The project included collection and identification of all stone fragments, even small ones, from the Acropolis and its slopes and the attempt was made to restore as much as possible using reassembled original material-with new marble from Mount Penteli used sparingly.
The remainder of the first of the two Cathar wars now essentially focused on Simon's attempt to hold on to his fabulous gains through winters where he was faced, with only a small force of confederates operating from the main winter camp at Fanjeau, with the desertion of local lords who had sworn fealty to him out of necessity — and attempts to enlarge his newfound domains in the summer when his forces were greatly augmented by reinforcements from northern France, Germany and elsewhere.
In an attempt to regulate the retail sector, the government has recently reformed taxation laws, so that small shops pay taxes on a regular monthly basis.
Some shock sites display a single picture, animation, video clip or a small gallery, and are often passed around via e-mail or disguised in posts to discussion sites as a hoax in an attempt to trick users into following the link to the website ( a bait and switch ).
With a small detachment still positioned in Gaul, Scipio made an attempt to intercept Hannibal.
The Conservative majority proved too small for effective control over his backbenchers, particularly after the United Kingdom's forced exit from the Exchange Rate Mechanism ( ERM ) on " Black Wednesday ", 16 September 1992, just five months into the new parliament, when billions of pounds were spent in a futile attempt to defend the currency's value.
Prawer argued further that the kingdom was an early attempt at colonization, in which the crusaders were a small ruling class, who were dependent on the native population for survival but made no attempt to integrate with them.
The June Days Uprising during the Second Republic was an attempt by the left to assert itself after the 1848 Revolution, but only a small portion of the population supported this.
Government Phonology, which originated in the early 1980s as an attempt to unify theoretical notions of syntactic and phonological structures, is based on the notion that all languages necessarily follow a small set of principles and vary according to their selection of certain binary parameters.
" Other versions have Bruce in a small house watching the spider try to make its connection between two roof beams ; or, defeated for the seventh time by the English, watching the spider make its attempt seven times, succeeding on the eighth try.
Torres becomes involved with a small group of officers who obtain the technology on the Sikarian black market and perpetrate a failed attempt to integrate it into Voyagers systems.
The fall of Wallingford appeared imminent and Henry marched south in an attempt to relieve the siege, arriving with a small army and placing Stephen's besieging forces under siege themselves.
Though he had so frequently argued for as small a federal government as possible, Jefferson required the national government to assume extraordinary police powers in an attempt to enforce his policy.
The authors point out that their analysis is completely consistent with the supposition that a non-black non-raven provides an extremely small amount of evidence although they do not attempt to prove it ; they merely calculate the difference between the amount of evidence that a black raven provides and the amount of evidence that a non-black non-raven provides.
Whilst he carefully avoided any cities that were hostile, he did attempt to besiege Milan, which failed due to the small army he had at his disposal.
The most significant difference between the plot and the historical events is the scene that replaces an incident where the captain threw almost all the submarine's small arms overboard out of concern about the possibility of a mutiny ; the film instead portrays an actual attempt at mutiny.
Edward Balliol returned to Scotland soon afterwards with a small force, in a final attempt to recover Scotland.
The Masses numbered 1 in D minor and 3 in F minor are for solo singers, mixed choir, organ and orchestra, while No. 2 in E minor is for mixed choir and a small group of wind instruments, and was written in an attempt to meet the Cecilians halfway.
As an aside in reference to the Repeal of the Corn Laws, Peel did make some moves to subsidise the purchase of food for the Irish, but this attempt was small and had little tangible effect.
* Spaced Invaders ( 1990 ) – A sci-fi comedy in which dim-witted Martians attempt to invade a small Illinois town during a re-broadcast of Orson Welles's 1938 War of the Worlds.
In 1452, Richard led a small army to Blackheath near London in an attempt to force Henry to dismiss Somerset from the government, but at this stage he lacked support and was forced to submit to arrest and take an oath of allegiance to the King at Old St Paul's Cathedral.
Personal rapid transit systems attempt to eliminate these wastes by moving small groups nonstop in automated vehicles on fixed tracks.
In an attempt to explain his actions, Waterhouse argued that the capture of a few small Spanish vessels would not have justified the loss of his men.
Following a failed attempt to establish a coalition with the Liberals, Heath conceded power to a minority Labour government under Harold Wilson, which won a small majority in a second election in October that year.

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