The suicide attempt looked to him like an opportunity to put his theory to the test.

Next day, reports went through the Department that Rooney had been outraged by what he considered a patent attempt to put public pressure on him for increased entertainment allowances and had sworn an oath that, that year, expense allowances would not rise a dollar.

:( 4 ) fielder fails in an attempt to put out a preceding runner and, in the scorer's judgment, the batter-runner could have been put out at first base ; or

If the defense makes no attempt to put the baserunner out ( for example, if the catcher doesn't even look his way ), the play is scored as defensive indifference ( also called fielder's indifference ), and no stolen base is credited to the runner.

In 1892, a short-lived rule was added crediting runners with stolen bases if a base runner advanced on a fly out, or if they advanced more than one base on any safe hit or attempted out, providing an attempt was made by the defense to put the runner out.

1904 saw an attempt to reduce the already wordy slew of rules governing stolen bases, with the stolen base now credited when "... the advances a base unaided by a base hit, a put out, ( or ) a fielding or batter error.

The Cuban Missile Crisis in the Autumn of 1962, in which the United States blockaded a Soviet attempt to put nuclear missiles on Cuba, created some anxiety about the possibility of imminent nuclear war and CND organised demonstrations on the issue.

Modern historians have put forward numerous theories in an attempt to explain these actions.

A suicide attempt at age 14 put her back in rehab, followed by a three-month stay with singer David Crosby and his wife.

Proposals to allow divorce were put by referendum by two Fine Gael – led governments, in 1986 under FitzGerald, and in 1995 under John Bruton, passing very narrowly on this second attempt.

Nazarbayev, however, continued to support him, persistently urging other republic leaders to sign the revised Union Treaty, which Gorbachev had put forward in a last attempt to hold the Soviet Union together.

On the international level, the interwar period was characterized by an attempt to put Luxembourg on the map.

This move was done as an attempt to put Malaysia in as center for Islamic banking and also to liberalize the financial sector.

Midway through the interview, Terry Gilliam put his feet up on the table and knocked the urn off, spilling the ashes and prompting a frantic, slapstick attempt to clean him up with a dustpan and brush, and subsequently a dustbuster.

In August 1999, a separatist Lozi faction in the Caprivi Strip launched a coup attempt ( see Caprivi conflict ) which was summarily put down by the Namibian Defence Force.

Harris ' attempt to put together an administration lasted for only a few days of parliamentary maneuvering.

His ships, the Boussole and Astrolabe, anchored off the northern side of the island on 13 January 1788, but at the time high seas were running that made it too dangerous for the two ships ’ boats that were put out to attempt a landing: “ It was obvious that I would have had to wait maybe for a very long time for a moment suitable for a landing and a visit to this island was not worth this sacrifice ”, he recorded in his journal.

Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808, the capture of the Spanish king, Ferdinand VII, and Napoleon's attempt to put his brother, Joseph Bonaparte, on the Spanish throne, severed the major remaining links between metropolis and satellite.

But in 1834, Robert Peel, the new Conservative leader, put an end to this threat when he stated in his Tamworth Manifesto that the Bill was " a final and irrevocable settlement of a great constitutional question which no friend to the peace and welfare of this country would attempt to disturb ".

When Paschal died, these nobles made strenuous efforts to replace him with a candidate of their own ; and despite the fact that the clergy put forward a candidate likely to continue the policy of Paschal, the nobles were successful in their attempt.

Playing into this, some heel wrestlers will attempt to " get themselves disqualified " to " protect " their championships, although whenever a " rematch clause " is put in play, the said advantage is often ruled out by the general manager to give the challenger a fair shot.

These schemes would attempt to put into practice many of the findings Koolhaas made in his book Delirious New York ( 1978 ), which was written while he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, directed by Peter Eisenman.

The group said that they kidnapped him in order to " put him on trial for corruption " and blamed his death on an attempt to rescue him by force.

In August 1981, the Senegalese military was invited into The Gambia by President Dawda Kairaba Jawara to put down a coup attempt.

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.