Scholars think that Luke attempts to legitimate Christianity by rooting it in Israelite tradition as evidenced by Luke constantly relating Christianity to Jewish religion.

During the Battle of France, the French, who made attempts to re-form defensive lines along rivers, were constantly frustrated when German forces arrived there first and pressed on.

It attempts to constantly replenish the pool, depending on the level of importance, and so will issue a random number.

The married couple constantly attempts to reconcile with Miss Crawley, and she relents a little, but she will only see her nephew and refuses to change her will.

However, Creasy has claimed: " The enduring importance of the battle of Tours in the eyes of the Moslems is attested not only by the expressions of ' the deadly battle ' and ' the disgraceful overthrow ' which their writers constantly employ when referring to it, but also by the fact that no more serious attempts at conquest beyond the Pyrenees were made by the Saracens.

" He yelled, used corporal punishment, and constantly belittled Homer's attempts to have fun, date, and excel at various activities ," they added.

She constantly steals or attempts to steal Scrooge McDuck's Number One Dime, which she believes will play a vital role in magically obtaining the same fabulous wealth of its owner.

Wax has a reputation as a flirt, who constantly attempts to hook up with women.

Vandervert and Vandervert-Weathers have pointed out that this blending process, because it continuously optimizes efficiencies, constantly improves prototyping attempts toward the invention or innovation of new ideas, music, art, or technology.

Headed by Xuk ' ul, this group of demigods is constantly summoned by aspirants in various attempts at gaining power or knowledge.

His recovery from that wound led him to meet the woman he loves, a story he attempts to tell his Master throughout the book, only to be constantly interrupted.

; Angela: The girl of Zack's affections, he was constantly attempting to impress and go out on a date with her, much to her annoyance, she would often demean Zack for his attempts.

In it, the protagonist Mr. Bunion is constantly frustrated in his attempts to improve his life by ridding himself of his burdonsome valise, " Dull Care ".

He drives a 1955 Morris Minor Series II Tourer convertible that is constantly breaking down, has trouble bringing dates back to the house because of his mother's deliberate interference, and is almost always thwarted by Maggie whenever he attempts to socialize with his work friends.

Loftus was constantly occupied in attempts to improve his financial position by obtaining additional preferment ( he had been obliged to resign the Deanery of St Patrick's in 1567 ).

After the success of Squee !, the children's cable network Nickelodeon approached Vasquez about producing an animated television series, Invader Zim which airs on Nicktoons currently, focused on the daily life of Zim, a naïve alien from the planet Irk who tries to conquer Earth, before his attempts are constantly thwarted in a humorous manner by Dib, a young paranormal investigator and the only one ( along with his sister Gaz ) who knows with certainty Zim is an alien ( although no one believes him ), or by his own naïveté.

Yossarian ’ s epiphany comes when he hears of Orr ’ s escape to neutral Sweden, the culmination of Orr's many attempts to escape combat duty ( constantly crashing his plane, the prostitute battering him over the head, etc.

During his childhood, Landon was constantly worried about his mother's suicide attempts.

Daws Butler plays " Mr. Tweedly ," a representative of a fictional citizens ' radio review board, who constantly interrupts Freberg with a loud buzzer as Freberg attempts to sing " Old Man River.

In contrast, New Wave filmmakers made no attempts to suspend the viewer's disbelief ; in fact, they took steps to constantly remind the viewer that a film is just a sequence of moving images, no matter how clever the use of light and shadow.

Gareth attempts to socialise and make a big sale during a sales conference while constantly checking to see if his car is safe.

Dorien's arch-nemesis is the acid-tongued Melanie Fishman, a vindictive gossip who Dorien constantly attempts to outdo.

At the same time the subject constantly attempts to transgress the prohibitions imposed on his enjoyment, to go beyond the pleasure principle.

Sarah runs a modelling agency and loves Diana, though Diana is emotionally distant from her niece, going so far as to tell people that her niece runs a prostitution ring and constantly attempts to kill her with poison.

The pious and energetic Archbishop Jarler and his successor Laurentius ( 1257 – 67 ), a Franciscan, constantly strove to elevate the clergy and to enforce the law of celibacy.

Players under Canadian rules might constantly trade cards to build sets of the same rank for burning.

Big and strong, but also extremely stupid ; they are organized in way of military rank, and constantly call Igthorn " Dukie " ( a slang term for feces ), which he loathes:

His valour and his daring cavalry charges later earned him the rank of général in these important campaigns, the battles of which became famous as Bonaparte constantly used speed of maneuver to fend off and eventually defeat individually superior opposing armies closing in on the French forces from several directions.

Higher dominance means better access to mating and earlier access to food, so there is naturally a great deal of fighting over rank, with younger males constantly trying to rise in position.

The A's, who constantly rank among the bottom teams in baseball in player salaries, made a trade for the short-term playoff push.

In later years, Stanley would write that the most vexing part of his duties was not the work itself, nor negotiating with the natives, but keeping order amongst the ill-assorted collection of white men he had brought with him as overseers, who squabbled constantly over small matters of rank or status.

Early 1679 he was promoted to the rank of Captain, and he appears to have served almost constantly during the next ten years on the coast of Algiers and in the Mediterranean.

Strategic points, he says, not the defeat of the enemy's army, decide the fate of one's own country, and must constantly remain the general's main concern, a maxim which was never more remarkably disproved than in the war of 1809.

Air flows in one direction only, making circuits through the mine such that each main work area constantly receives a supply of fresh air.

Victor Meldrew ( Richard Wilson ) – Victor is the main protagonist of the sitcom and finds himself constantly battling against all that life throws at him as he becomes entangled, like the pawn he is, in machiavellian plots.

His main criticism was that films, citing Spider-Man 2 as an example, were constantly given four star ratings that they did not deserve.

In embedded systems the same may be achieved using interrupts instead of a constantly running main loop ; in that case the former portion of the architecture resides completely in computer hardware.

The main focus of the narration constantly shifts from one character to another.

Since the main reservoir pipe is kept constantly pressurized by the locomotive, the car reservoirs can be charged independently of the brake pipe, this being accomplished via a check valve to prevent backfeeding into the pipe.

The main characters are three sisters who come of age in a house run by their abusive and womanizing father and must constantly find ways to take care of their depressed and alcoholic mother.

Mr. Strange's main trait is that he has an absurd addiction to off milk, and is constantly carrying cartons or bottles of milk with him, not only drinking from them but obsessively sniffing them before uttering the words " Lovely-Milky Milky " ( which became another one of the show's most popular catchphrases ).

In other games in the series, the main character is Rave, a green creature who's constantly foiling the plots of a mad scientist named Dr. Dudley Dabble.

Although the network identifies as a national, part-public broadcaster, it is essentially fully commercially funded, and is constantly in ratings battles with its main rival TV3.

" the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies .... Soviet pressure against the free institutions of the Western world is something that can be contained by the adroit and vigilant application of counterforce at a series of constantly shifting geographical and political points, corresponding to the shifts and manoeuvers of Soviet policy, but which cannot be charmed or talked out of existence.

In 2009, replacement of the emergency bridge through Loren river on constantly operating local road from Lavrentiya to Lorino became the main event of transport of Chukotka.

Served as Southeast Asia's main entreport and gain trade patronage appointed by Chinese court, Srivijaya was constantly managing their trade network and always wary of potential rival ports of neighboring kingdoms.

It has been featured in the Japanese tokusatsu drama Kamen Rider W, in which the main character constantly reads from a Japanese version of the book.

Berkeley always denied any deep significance to his work, arguing that his main professional goals were to constantly top himself and to never repeat his past accomplishments.

Gears were another source of considerable noise, solved by employing hypoid gears which are mounted at a right angle to the axle, where three of the six teeth constantly engaged the main gear, reducing play and noise.

The NEI recognizes that new ideas and concepts are constantly emerging, and that the main engine for scientific discovery is investigator-initiated research.

Dakuan continues the main investigation on his own, using Jubei and Kagero as decoys, who must constantly fend off deadly attacks from the remaining members of the Devils of Kimon, the leader of whom is reputed to be Jubei's old nemesis Gemma, who was killed several years previously.

The main symptoms of a failure would be the engine not starting, fault light constantly on and unable to be cleared.

One of the main reasons for his disaffection appears to have been the severity of the corporal punishment that was constantly administered for what in his view were trivial offences.

And in fact, this zone was constantly highlighted as one the main organ of clairvoyant perception in somnambulist.

Examples in both film and theatre include Sauron, the main antagonist in The Lord of the Rings, who constantly battles the series ' protagonists, and Tybalt, an antagonist in Romeo and Juliet, who slays Mercutio and whose later death results in the exiling of the play's protagonist, Romeo.

The main protagonist is a teenager named Tom, whose friend Kaz constantly tells him of his adventures in Chaotic.