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attempted and move
Experienced players will be aware of the trick and cautious not to move too early, but the attempted deception is still useful because it forces the opponent to delay his movement slightly.
When Isagoras attempted to create a narrow oligarchic government, the Athenian people, in a spontaneous and unprecedented move, expelled Cleomenes and Isagoras.
The queen was shortly afterwards brought from this place to the palace and vainly attempted to move Octavian to pity.
Unlike the American game, Canadian rules allow a drop kick to be attempted at any time by any player, but the move is very rare.
After breaking up the Spiders from Mars, Bowie attempted to move on from his Ziggy persona.
In 1974 the US-backed Greek junta-in power since 1967-partly in a move to draw attention away from internal turmoil and partly unsatisfied with Makarios ' policy in Cyprus, on 13 July attempted a coup to replace him with Nikos Sampson and declare union with Greece.
As the country attempted to move from occupation by western forces to a new entity within the Middle East, a new phase of conflict seemed to have erupted within Iraq.
Jacksonville attempted to lure the Baltimore Colts in 1979 ; Colts owner Robert Irsay famously landed a helicopter in the stadium as thousands of Jacksonville citizens urged him to move the team there.
Octavian forced Lepidus to resign after the older triumvir attempted an ill-judged political move.
When Mach 3 attempted to move most of the operating system into user-space, the overhead became higher still: benchmarks between Mach and Ultrix on a MIPS R3000 showed a performance hit as great as 67 % on some workloads.
For example, if the player attempted to move forward, his client would send the request to move forward to the server, and the server would determine whether the client was actually able to move forward or if he ran into an obstacle, such as a wall or another player.
Doug Stokes argues that it was not until the early part of the 1980s that the Colombian government attempted to move away from the counterinsurgency strategy represented by Plan Lazo and Yarborough's 1962 recommendations.
Roosevelt attempted to move the Republican Party ( GOP ) toward Progressivism, including trust busting and increased regulation of businesses.
He attempted to commute for a time and return on the weekends, but he and Julia decided to move to Washington and secured a place in Georgetown Heights, while he instructed his old ally Washburne that, politically, his legal residence remained in Galena, Illinois.
The move also divided the community, as Communitarian John Towner attempted to wrest control for himself.
He attempted to return to France in 1685 but the revocation of the Edict of Nantes precluded this move.
Altman's immediate success encouraged him to move to New York City, where he attempted to forge a career as a writer.
* In Recess: School's Out ( 2001 ), the film's main antagonist attempted to use a tractor beam to move the moon to create a new ice age.
With the removal of the Despensers, many nobles, regardless of previous affiliation, now attempted to move into the vacuum left by the two.
Grant attempted to move quickly through the dense underbrush of the Wilderness of Spotsylvania, but Lee launched two of his corps on parallel roads to intercept him.
Ontario has also attempted to move the system away from bill for service or visit and toward preventive and community-based approaches to healthcare.
In later years, Milken and Drexel would shy away from certain of the more " notorious " corporate raiders as the firm and the private equity industry attempted to move upscale.
Hadrian's successor Antoninus abandoned the frontier and attempted to move further north and build a new wall between the Forth and the Clyde.

attempted and debate
P52 is small, and although a plausible reconstruction can be attempted for most of the fourteen lines represented, the proportion of the text of the Gospel of John for which it provides a direct witness is so small that it is rarely cited in textual debate.
Quayle attempted to avoid the one-sided outcome of his debate with Lloyd Bentsen four years earlier by staying on the offensive.
In the debate, Quayle attempted to ease this fear by stating that he had as much experience as John Kennedy did when he ran for President in 1960.
There is an in-depth discussion of the law of attempted crimes, in particular the debate about criminal liability in issues of impossible crimes.
The Duke of York, grateful for Shaftesbury's assistance in the debate against Danby's bill, now attempted to reconcile Shaftesbury with the king, and Shaftesbury was admitted to kiss the king's hand on 13 June 1675.
Around 600 however, tensions flared between the Armenian and Georgian Churches, as the Armenian Church attempted to assert prominence in the Caucasus, in both hierarchical and doctrinal matters, whereas the Catholicos of Mtskheta, Kirion I, leaned towards the Byzantine, Chalcedonian side of the debate, as Kartli was once again seeking imperial support against the Sassanid Empire, who had abolished the Kingdom in 580.
Richard White, while admitting that the formalist / substantivist debate was “ old, and now tired ,” attempted to reinvigorate the substantivist position.
In Rich Burlew's Order of the Stick webcomic, when a character grew frustrated by the traditional Good-versus-Evil " shoulder angel " debate, he attempted to consult Law versus Chaos, with a Slaad representing the latter.
Bush later attempted to deflect criticism of what was described as his scowling demeanor during the first debate, joking at one point about one of Kerry's remarks, " That answer made me want to scowl.
Taiwan partially adopted this strategy, and attempted to begin a debate on the repeal of Resolution 2758 during the Fifty-Second General Assembly.
Predisposing conditions for cellulitis include insect or spider bite, blistering, animal bite, tattoos, pruritic ( itchy ) skin rash, recent surgery, athlete's foot, dry skin, eczema, injecting drugs ( especially subcutaneous or intramuscular injection or where an attempted intravenous injection " misses " or blows the vein ), pregnancy, diabetes and obesity, which can affect circulation, as well as burns and boils, though there is debate as to whether minor foot lesions contribute.
However, the WHO's methodologies, which attempted to measure how efficiently health systems translate expenditure into health, generated broad debate and criticism.
< sup > 52 </ sup > is small, and although a plausible reconstruction can be attempted for most of the fourteen lines represented, the proportion of the text of the Gospel of John for which it provides a direct witness is necessarily limited, so it is rarely cited in textual debate.
* Caveat emptor: There is an underlying debate about whether a lender should be allowed to charge whatever it wants for a service, even if there is no evidence that it attempted to deceive the consumer about the price.
Astell is remembered for her ability to debate freely with both contemporary men and women, and particularly for her groundbreaking methods of negotiating the position of women in society by engaging in philosophical debate ( Descartes was a particular influence ) rather than basing her arguments in historical evidence as had previously been attempted.
The ADA attempted to correct the excesses of debate, wanted to emphasize speech elements and provide a training ground for novice debaters, i. e. debaters that had no formal debate training in high school but nevertheless had potential.
Leaders have occasionally attempted to use props ( such as charts or signs bearing slogans ) during a debate with varying degrees of success.
The cameo poked fun at Goren's mannerisms, as D ' Onofrio attempted to interrogate Hillary Clinton ( Amy Poehler ) in her televised debate with Barack Obama ( Fred Armisen ).
Airing on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights in 1990 and 1991, and expanding to Monday to Thursday nights from 1992 onwards, the program opened with a seven-minute video piece that attempted to examine the case in a balanced manner, followed by twenty minutes of moderated debate between two to four guests.
To counter the opposition tactics, the Liberals attempted to force closure — a vote ending debate and forcing a final vote — at every stage of the bill.
The Haskala movement ( the Jewish Enlightenment, not to be confused with the more general Age of Enlightenment ), was sweeping through Eastern Europe in the late eighteenth century, and Reb Itzikl frequently attempted to debate and confront the Maskilim.
" In the floor debate on redemption at the Westminster Assembly, Edmund Calamy the Elder of the Davenant School attempted to insert Amyraldism into the Catechism.

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