Finally, for 1950 only, runners would be credited with a stolen base if they were " well advanced " toward the base they were attempting to steal ", and the pitcher is charged with a balk, with the further exception of a player attempting to steal, who would otherwise have been forced to advance on the balk by a runner behind them.

In recent years the Island's residents have been attempting to diversify the area economy by investing in tourism developments, call centres, and small businesses, as well as manufacturing ventures in such fields as auto parts, pharmaceuticals, and window glazings.

Macro spoke well of Caligula to Tiberius, attempting to quell any ill will or suspicion the emperor felt towards Caligula.

Since the cracking is likely due to a brittle neck, the cases should be annealed before attempting to reform them, or the crack may propagate and ruin the newly formed shorter case as well.

There is a long history of work attempting to build good ontologies for a variety of task domains, including early work on an ontology for liquids, the lumped element model widely used in representing electronic circuits ( e. g .,), as well as ontologies for time, belief, and even programming itself.

The three years Michelangelo spent in creating drawings and models for the façade, as well as attempting to open a new marble quarry at Pietrasanta specifically for the project, were among the most frustrating in his career, as work was abruptly canceled by his financially strapped patrons before any real progress had been made.

He therefore fashioned smaller bats for them, to suit their sizes, and they were taught to play straight and " learn defence, with the left shoulder well forward ", before attempting to hit.

As well as requiring less energy to achieve the same separation, far smaller scale plants are possible, making them an economic possibility for a small nation attempting to produce a nuclear weapon.

However, particularly in attempting to calculate the properties of excited states ( molecules that have been excited by some source of energy ), the VB method does not always work well.

Empiricism ( sometimes associated with Aristotle but more correctly associated with British philosophers such as John Locke and David Hume, as well as their ancient equivalents such as Democritus ) asserts that sensory impressions are the only available starting points for reasoning and attempting to attain truth.

When injured or threatened, the Virginia opossum is well known for attempting to fake death or " play possum ", as seen in this photo.

The Democrats had generally been successful in portraying those within their party attempting to push a purely sectional issue as extremists that were well outside the normal scope of traditional politics.

Another well known blunder occurred in October 1995 when Wild Wing, attempting to jump through a " wall of fire ", accidentally tripped causing the mascot to land on the fire and set his costume ablaze.

Infected women also had a 1. 8 relative risk of attempting violent suicide compared with non-infected women, as well as a 1. 53 relative risk of self-directed violence.

It is believed that the girl was not dead when she was put into the well because her hands were filled with dirt that could only result from a struggle or attempting to free herself.

Cloud has tried to separate itself from neighboring cities, and particularly the theme parks, by promoting an image of small-town life, as well as attempting to make itself economically less dependent on Kissimmee.

In 1894, Bellevue city fathers, attempting to bring more settlers to the city, published a brochure describing the avenue's commercial quality: " Fairfield Avenue, running east and west through the entire town, is the principal business thoroughfare, and business houses are kept well stocked with the latest and best of everything in all branches of trade.

As well as defining self-harm in terms of the act of damaging the body, it may be more accurate to define self-harm in terms of the intent, and the emotional distress that the person is attempting to deal with.

The city is attempting to attract new technology oriented businesses as well.

Odo then begins attempting to change the nature of the Dominion by convincing the founders to reevaluate their views on other species, as well as encouraging certain Vorta and Jem ' Hadar to behave more independently.

The administration claimed that Iraq had not conformed with its obligation to disarm under past UN Resolutions, and that Saddam Hussein was actively attempting to acquire a nuclear weapons capability as well as enhance an existing arsenal of chemical and biological weapons.

Poisoning the well ( or attempting to poison the well ) is a rhetorical device where adverse information about a target is pre-emptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing everything that the target person is about to say.

These men -- for the most part educated in our `` best '' New England colleges, well established financially and socially in the community -- under kindly but insistent probing, reveal little or no objective or explicit criteria or data for their generalizations about the interests and attitudes of the people they claim to serve, or about the public responses that actually follow their occasional breach of a `` client-service relationship ''.

This is often primarily a visual deterrent since a well prepared burglar can breach barbed wire and barbed tape barriers in similar amounts of time, using simple techniques such as cutting the wire or throwing a piece of old carpet over its strands.

The security breach sparked a number of investigations to include members of Congress, the Federal Trade Commission, the US Securities and Exchange Commission and US state attorneys general as well as personal lawsuits.

It is the use of threats to prevent another from engaging in a lawful occupation and writing libelous letters or letters that tend to provoke a breach of the peace, as well as use of intimidation for purposes of collecting an unpaid debt.

Historian James Saslow interprets the portrait by Muhammad Qasim as showing that the Muslim taboo against wine, as well as that against male intimacy, " were more honored in the breach than in the observance ".

His successor as the Rams ' starting quarterback, Marc Bulger ( another relatively unheralded quarterback coming out of college ), stepped into the breach and played well upon replacing Warner.

Unlike the case of refugees, there is no international humanitarian institution which has the overall responsibility of protecting and assisting the refugees as well as the internally displaced .. A number of organizations have stepped into the breach in specific circumstances.

The lawsuit was co-filed by 34 film and affiliated companies including Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox as well the Seven Network, an Australian television broadcaster, and alleges breach of copyright on a number of popular movies and television shows.

The breach of the constitutional order by the Armed Forces in June 1973 deprived him of his positions in the Government and in the House of Representatives, where he had renewed his seat once again in 1971, as well as his position as Deputy Editor of Acción Newspaper-which was closed down-and President of the National Council of Visual Arts, to which he had been appointed in 1967.

On an appeal to the Divisional Court in 1957 concerning a pure breach of the Code of Professional Conduct under the legislation then in force ( the architect was practising an estate agent's business as well as his own ), when the registration body was constituted under the name the Architects ' Registration Council of the United Kingdom, Mr Justice Devlin ruled: " It is not of itself disgraceful to disagree with a majority view and to act accordingly.

However, studies of bowhead whales have shown that the noise of a lobtail travels much less well than that of a vocal call or a breach.

According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, " Portugal became the first country to breach the EU's ' excessive deficit ' rule with a budget deficit of 4. 4 % of GDP in 2001, well above the 3 % of GDP ceiling set by the EU's Stability and Growth Pact.

There are other ways of establishing breach, as well.

The Commission arrived to similar conclusions with respect to Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Rafael Eitan ( tantamount to a breach of duty that was incumbent upon the Chief of Staff ), as well as Director of Military Intelligence, Maj. Gen. Yehoshua Saguy, and other Intelligence officials — though the Mossad was not reprimanded and parts of the report commenting on its role remain under military censorship.

The unfair dismissal claim would, if he is well advised, be in respect of the post-termination period and sue in court for wrongful dismissal in respect of the notice period, thus stretching out the statutory limits by making the unfair dismissal limit only start running from a later date to allow perhaps more loss of earnings and ignoring the breach of contract limit by using the court instead of tribunal to deal with wrongful dismissal.

An employee who was constructively dismissed, as well as possibly having a claim for breach of the duty not to destroy the bond of mutual trust, will usually have a claim for wrongful dismissal.

Following a listener complaint, Ofcom found the station in breach of its music policy-playing a significantly higher percentage of ' current chart hits ' than its 33 % limit-as well as the accuracy of its ' public file ', which carried misleading information as to the amount of automated programming broadcast per day.

The German transfer rights were in breach of, if not the letter, then the spirit of the Russo-Finnish Moscow Peace Treaty, as well as the Russo-German Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, but the Finns greeted the agreement as a balance against the increasing pressure from the Soviet Union.

Albino left " Los Panchos " in the middle of various disputes and internal group problems, culminating in a lawsuit by the management of Los Panchos against Albino for breach of contract, as well as a countersuit by Albino.

The bomb was designed to breach emplacements as well as to destroy massed formations of armor.

Traditionally, absenteeism has been viewed as an indicator of poor individual performance, as well as a breach of an implicit contract between employee and employer ; it was seen as a management problem, and framed in economic or quasi-economic terms.

In terms of plot, he is often forced to conduct his activities in breach of the law-such as in " Mr Standfast " where he becomes a person of some interest to the Scottish Police, causing him to be hunted by them as well as the enemy.

" A breach in the Industrial Canal produced catastrophic flooding of the city's Lower 9th Ward as well as the neighboring towns of Arabi and Chalmette in St. Bernard parish.

It is well established that liquidated damages for breach of contract are void if they seek to punish rather than to compensate for loss.