This decision was followed by a failed Parchamite coup, which in turn led Hafizullah Amin, a Khalqist, to initiate a purge against the Parchamites.

When the business failed, his father would quietly turn the huge stacks of useless stationery and pencils over to his children, requiring them to use up all the material as fast as possible.

They next string up a barrier of power lines around the city filled with a 1, 000, 000 volts of electricity ( 300, 000 volts had been tried in the first film, but failed to turn the monster back ).

However, neither the Fifth Amendment nor Miranda extend to prearrest silence, so if a defendant takes the stand at trial ( thereby waiving his Fifth Amendment rights ), the prosecutor can attack his credibility with his prearrest silence ( where he failed to turn himself in and confess immediately ).

Since free quark searches consistently failed to turn up any evidence for the new particles, and because an elementary particle back then was defined as a particle which could be separated and isolated, Gell-Mann often said that quarks were merely convenient mathematical constructs, not real particles.

Q also lost a wager he made with Picard, detailing that if he failed to turn Riker, then he has to stay out of humanity's path – forever.

Although the Saudi-based investors claimed to have poured more than $ 120 million into UPI, it had failed to turn a profit.

On Monday, January 11, 1982 after Lynde had failed to turn up for a birthday celebration, his friend Paul Barresi became alarmed.

However, as Mussolini and the axis powers failed in the Second World War in 1943, several members of the Italian court began putting out feelers to the Allies, who in turn let it be known that Mussolini had to go.

Searches of the area in subsequent years failed to turn up a cremation site or the remains of the two missing Romanov children.

The Doctor had failed to sense him because he had used a chameleon arch to turn himself into a human ( as the Doctor did in " Human Nature "), while hiding at the end of the Universe.

In 1904 they were declared winners after their opponents, Club Español de Madrid, failed to turn up.

In 2004, a scientifically supported archaeological dig at the site failed to turn up any bones.

This failed miserably, as it was necessary to turn backward to see the wave progressing downward.

At approximately 2: 53 AM, Amtrak's Sunset Limited train, powered by three locomotives, and en route from Los Angeles, California to Miami, Florida with 220 passengers and crew aboard, crossed the Bayou Canot bridge at high speed and derailed at a kink in the track caused by a barge captain who rammed the bridge by making a wrong turn in the waterway, and failed to report the accident.

Orinda was also the site of Bryant Station, a stop on the failed California and Nevada Railroad around the turn of the 20th century.

After failed attempts from buyers wanting to purchase the line and turn it into a shortline railroad, work began on tearing down the railroad from Moberly, MO northward toward La Plata, MO where it has a connection with the BNSF Railway and from Moulton, IA southward toward La Plata, MO.

Commissioner Scott's statement was, “ While it saddens me to close a school district, years of effort, including reconstituting its school, have failed to turn this district around.

At the turn of the century, films such as Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Treasure Planet, and Home on the Range failed to meet the critical and commercial expectations set by the early 1990s phenomena, in spite of exceptions such as Lilo & Stitch and The Emperor's New Groove.

The UK TV feed from Philadelphia was dogged by an intermittent regular buzzing on the sound during Bryan Adams ' turn on stage and continued less frequently throughout the rest of the UK reception of the American concert and both the audio and video feed failed entirely during that performance and during Simple Minds's performance.

Jim Gibbons, who was a devout Catholic and had a deep hatred of Haughey, failed to turn up and vote for this important legislation.

An attempt to turn the play into a musical in the 1970s, with Davis again in the role of the schoolteacher with lyrics by Williams, failed.

He saw parallels to Olmsted's Central Park as a “ sylvan ” green overlay on the depleted landscape that preceded his Central Park Defending himself against allegations that he and other earth artists “ cut and gouge the land like Army engineers ”, Smithson, in his own essay, charges that one of such opinions “ failed to recognize the possibility of a direct organic manipulation of the land ..” and would “ turn his back on the contradictions that inhabit our landscapes ”

Since several units failed to turn in reports, Moreau's army probably lost at least 3, 000 men.

The music surged up, but it failed to check it.

Keegan, a 6-foot-3-inch 158-pounder, gave up the Orioles' last two safeties over the final three frames, escaping a load of trouble in the ninth when the Birds threatened but failed to tally.

Charles A. Black, COAHR chairman, said Friday that three theater representatives had agreed to meet with the students on Oct. 31 but had failed to show up.

Traffic frequently has failed to measure up to engineers' rosy estimates.

The crusaders believed their oaths were made invalid when the Byzantine contingent under Tatikios failed to help them during the siege of Antioch ; Bohemund, who had set himself up as Prince of Antioch, briefly went to war with Alexios in the Balkans, but was blockaded by the Byzantine forces and agreed to become Alexios ' vassal by the Treaty of Devol in 1108.

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.

E. Chantre in 1894 picked up lustreless ware, like that of Hissariik, in central Phtygia and at Pteria, and the English archaeological expeditions, sent subsequently into north-western Anatolia, have never failed to bring back ceramic specimens of Aegean appearance from the valleys of the Rhyndncus, Sangarius and Halys.

When his quest to keep the team in Milwaukee finally failed after the 1965 season, he changed the group's name to Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc., after the minor league baseball team he grew up watching, and devoted himself to returning Major League Baseball to Milwaukee.

The third, made up of some 600 men, managed to land in Cuba and take the central city of Cárdenas, but failed eventually due to a lack of popular support.

However, in 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo, repeated charges by up to 9, 000 French cavalrymen failed to break the line of the British and German infantry, who had formed squares.

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.

Poe failed to show up for a meeting with Thomas to discuss the appointment in mid-September 1842, claiming to have been sick, though Thomas believed he had been drunk.

The Russians, whose side lost, failed to keep up and despite newer models coming into service, I-16s were outfought by the improved Bf 109s in World War II, while remaining the most common Soviet front-line fighter into 1942.

Lenin failed ; many minor western and southern territories of the former empire declared their independence, and proved willing to take up arms to defend it.

Both failed by allowing the political crisis to end up in the bloody Civil War and a comprehensive terror, instead of reaching a compromise to accomplish a peaceful political settlement.

A border commission was set up in 1966 with representatives from Guyana, Venezuela and Great Britain, but failed to reach agreement.

After repeated failed attempts at financial reform, Louis XVI was persuaded to convene the Estates-General, a representative body of the country made up of three estates: the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners.

Like the majority of previous Haitian presidents, however, he failed to live up to his potential.

However, this failed to take into account the 600 jobs that Holden previously announced would be shed when production of the Family II engine is set to wrap up in late 2009.

The Russian armies were separated, defeated and pushed back, which forced Lenin and the Soviet leadership to abandon for the time being their strategic objective of linking up with the German and other European revolution-minded comrades ( Lenin's hope of generating support for the Red Army in Poland had already failed to materialize ).

Other sources note that during his time as Patriarch of Venice that " Luciani was intransigent with his upholding of the teaching of the Church and severe with those, through intellectual pride and disobedience paid no attention to the Church's prohibition of contraception ", though while not condoning the sin, he was tolerant of those who sincerely tried and failed to live up to the Church's teaching.

It is argued that either the claims of Islam were false and the Christian or post-Christian West had finally come up with another system that was superior, or Islam had failed through not being true to itself.

The embargo failed in the United States just as it did in France, and caused massive hardships up and down the seaboard, which depended on foreign trade.