According to some because Python had attempted to rape Leto while she was pregnant with Apollo and Artemis.

) Soon after they wed, Heracles and Deianira had to cross a river, and a centaur named Nessus offered to help Deianira across but then attempted to rape her.

According to the Justice Department 1 in 3 women have suffered rape or attempted rape, more than twice the national rate.

He drank too much, and attempted to rape a priestess of Dionysios.

Much of the criticism centered around Amy's complicated and lengthy rape scene, which Peckinpah reportedly attempted to base on his own personal fears rooted in past failed marriages.

It was also said that all of the men who attempted to rape her were immediately struck blind.

An enraged Anita, following the attempted rape, deliberately tells the Jets that Chino has killed Maria, instead of conveying the original message of where Tony should meet with her.

" They are fleeing from their previous employment in Weed where they were run out of town after Lennie's love of stroking soft things resulted in an accusation of attempted rape when he touched a young woman's dress.

Critics of the film feared that the lynching and attempted rape scenes would spark interracial violence in a city still tense from the riots of July 1919.

Critics ( such as Jane Gaines, Ronald Green, and Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence ) celebrated the skill with which Micheaux intercut the lynching of the Landry family with the attempted rape of Sylvia by Gridlestone.

According to the Bibliotheca, when Hephaestus unsuccessfully attempted to rape Athena, she wiped his semen off her leg with wool and threw it on the ground, impregnating Gaia.

According to the Bibliotheca, Hephaestus attempted to rape Athena but was unsuccessful.

Years earlier, the centaur Nessus had ferried her across the river Evenus and attempted to rape her when on the other side.

The sabotage was arranged by Myrtilus, a servant of the king who was killed by Pelops for one of three reasons: because he had been promised the right to take Hippodamia's virginity, which Pelops retracted, because he attempted to rape her or because Pelops did not wish to share the credit for the victory.

Her attempted rape of Hermaphroditus places her as the only nymph rapist in the Greek mythological canon ( though see also Dercetis ).

Pelops then killed Myrtilus ( by throwing him off a cliff into the sea ) after the latter attempted to rape Hippodamia.

Pelops then killed Myrtilus ( by throwing him off a cliff into the sea ) after the latter attempted to rape Hippodamia.

When the bride was presented to greet the guests, the centaur Eurytion leapt up and attempted to rape her.

Robert Graves ' work I, Claudius suggests that, through Livia's influence, Augustus grew to dislike him, and Graves even creates a fictional incident in which Postumus is framed by Livia and her granddaughter Livilla for attempted rape of the latter.

In Australian aboriginal mythology ( specifically: Mandjindja ), Kidili ( or Kidilli ) was an ancient moon-man who attempted to rape some of the first women on Earth.

The trouble began in Forsyth County in September 1912 when Ellen Grice claimed that she was the victim of an attempted assault and rape by two black men ; the attempted assault occurred on Wednesday September 4, 1912 in her mother's home.

* The attempted rape scene was fictionalized.

He came to the attention of later Greek mythographers only when he attempted to waylay Leto near Delphi.

In June 1907, the French attempted to build a light railway near the port and passing through a graveyard.

After Schumann's attempted suicide and subsequent confinement in a mental sanatorium near Bonn in February 1854, Brahms was the main intercessor between Clara and her husband, and found himself virtually head of the household.

For example the system might raise an alert if someone attempted to buy components for bomb making, hired a car and rented a hotel room near the White House.

Bingham died when the plane crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers attempted to foil the hijacking.

In addition to arguing that the bombing could not have been carried out by two men alone, Jones also attempted to create reasonable doubt by arguing that no one had seen McVeigh near the scene of the crime, and that the investigation into the bombing had lasted only two weeks.

The first such scene took place immediately after the excavation of the Stargate in 1928 and showed petrified Horus guards near the cover stones ; the producers had tried to introduce the idea that beings had attempted to come through the Stargate after its burial, but they cut the scene for time concerns.

Moral reform movements attempted to close down brothels, something that has sometimes been argued to have been a factor in the concentration of street-prostitution in Whitechapel ( where the Jack the Ripper prostitute murders took place ), part of the East End of London, by the 1880s ( near the end of the 19th century ).

When the Committeee for Non-Violent Action sponsored a protest in August, 1957, at the Camp Mercury nuclear test site near Las Vegas, Nevada, 13 of the protesters attempted to enter the test site knowing that they faced arrest.

In the same month, Sardinians stopped the attempted french landing on the beach of Quartu Sant ' Elena, near the Capital of Cagliari.

Diệm attempted to travel to Huế to dissuade Bảo Đại from joining Hồ, but was arrested by the Việt Minh along the way and exiled to a highland village near the border.

No further explanation is ever given as to why, having buried his money near Montfermeil, Valjean had traveled back to Paris and then attempted to travel back to Montfermeil.

One man was killed during tunnel construction when he attempted to thaw frozen dynamite which exploded when he set it near a fire.

The tribe is completely absent from the Blessing of Moses, which textual scholars date to near the time of the Deuteronomist, after the dates of these census ; some Septuagint manuscripts appear to have attempted to correct this, adding the name of Simeon to the latter half of verse 6, which scholars view as unwarranted based on the Hebrew manuscripts.

Chaplin attempted to film many of the scenes on location near Truckee, California, in early 1924.

Theodosius did not readily accept this choice and according to the chronicler Theophanes the Confessor even attempted to hide in the forests near Adramyttium.

In the late 1830s a wealthy Jew named Shemarya Luria attempted to purchase houses near the Wall, but was unsuccessful, as was Jewish sage Abdullah of Bombay who tried to purchase the Western Wall in the 1850s.

In the following year, Charles attempted to make a reconciliation between himself and the Duke, meeting him on a bridge at Pouilly, near Melun, in July 1419.

When Halirrhotius, son of Poseidon, raped her ( or merely attempted to ), Ares killed him, a crime for which he was tried in a court, the first trial in history, which took place on the hill near the Acropolis of Athens named Areopagus, named, according to this etiological myth, after Ares.

Especially following a September 27, 2009 bombing near a Syrian security installation that killed 17, the regime has attempted to portray Syria as a victim of terrorism rather than a purveyor of it.

He fled to Laughlin, Nevada, near Las Vegas and took his own life when the federal authorities attempted to arrest him.

The feud resulted in the attempted assassination of Official IRA leader Sean Garland who was wounded in an IRSP attack near his home in the Ballymun area of Dublin ( Garland was wounded six times but survived the attack ).

The Blow family settled near Huntsville, Alabama, where they unsuccessfully attempted farming.

Brinkley has attempted to capitalize on its good fortune of being the largest city near the Refuge and the rediscovery of the woodpecker:

Although there were other persons who purchased land earlier, and even some who attempted to settle there, the first permanent white settler in the area is considered to be Levi Gilkey, who purchased land on May 11, 1831, and settled near the mouth of the Gilkey Creek ( in what is now part of Flint ).