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He tried to quell the unruly soldiers there but one legion mutinied and attacked his bodyguard, leaving Pertinax for dead.
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Murad IV tried to quell the corruption that had grown during the reigns of previous Sultans, and that had not been checked while his mother was ruling through proxy.
At Nish the Byzantine governor tried to supply them, but Peter had little control over his followers and Byzantine troops were needed to quell their attacks.
Ludwig tried to institute a few minor reforms but they proved insufficient to quell the storm of protests and on March 16, 1848, Ludwig I abdicated in favor of his eldest son Maximilian II.
Resistance broke out on one of the lakeside settlements, which Cortés tried to quell by having a formal ceremony where the emperor swore allegiance to the Spanish king.
Accidents and rumors, which had also dogged the US Navy during their war with Spain in 1898, did not exempt the Russian fleet on their voyage, and there was general fear of attack among the sailors, which their command tried to quell by calling for increased vigilance and issuing an order that " no vessel of any sort must be allowed to get in among the fleet ".
Snapple initially tried to quell these rumors quietly, but ultimately had to launch a media campaign to squash them, pointing out it would be bad for business to support controversial issues in such a way as the rumors implied.
Even though Mehdi Karrubi, who was Khomeini ’ s official pilgrimage representative that year, tried to assure Saudi officials that the demonstrations would take place in the usual manner and in the agreed routes, it did little to quell the Saudi fears.
Jarett Cale, who writes the show and plays Jeremy, tried to quell the complaints on the Pure Pwnage forums, saying " We're doing our best to get it broadcast in the USA, UK, Australia, etc., but it's really up to each country's respective broadcasters.
tried and unruly
An unruly mob of office seekers made something of a shambles of the March inauguration, and though some tried to explain this as democratic enthusiasm, the real truth was Jackson supporters had been lavished with promises of positions in return for political support.
The fifth of seven children, he was a very independent and unruly child who was tried and acquitted at nine years old of the attempted murder of a trolley motorman who had callously driven over and killed his dog.
However, he was the first person to hold the position for five years ; in the preceding three years, no less than five separate people had tried and failed to maintain the unruly choir.
Elder tried to stay focused on the game, but unlike the majority of players on tour he was constantly bothered by unruly fans, frequently receiving hate mail and threatening phone calls.
tried and soldiers
Raveneck stopped his soldiers and tried to attack again, but this charge ended with total defeat-Raveneck died and the rest of the cavalry surrendered or escaped.
" Saville stated that British paratroopers " lost control ", fatally shooting fleeing civilians and those who tried to aid the civilians who had been shot by the British soldiers.
States have tried to use state schools to increase state power, especially to make better soldiers and workers.
The Turks, having seized the summit of the mountain, and the French ( both soldiers and pilgrims ) having been taken by surprise, there was little hope of escape: those who tried were caught and killed, and many men, horses and baggage were cast into the canyon below the ridge.
It failed but in August 1840, Prince Louis Napoleon tried another coup at Boulogne with hired soldiers.
* lines 16. 7-34 – Soldiers are immune to justice since they have to be tried in the camp among other soldiers, where a plaintiff will get no help prosecuting them, and may get a beating in addition for their trouble.
() Ahaziah, the king of Judah, tried to escape, but was fatally wounded by one of Jehu's soldiers at Beth-gan.
Marcin Dunin, archbishop of Poznań and Gniezno and Roman Catholic primate of Poland, was imprisoned by Prussian authorities for ten months in 1839-1840 ; after his release, he tried to organise a chaplaincy for the many Polish soldiers stationed in the city.
Whereas before warships had tried to grapple with each other so that soldiers could board the enemy ship, now they stood off and fired broadsides that would sink the enemy vessel.
The French Ministry of Defence tried in 1990 to give more easily higher ranks and driving licenses to young French soldiers with North-African ancestry.
Some Chinese soldiers stripped civilians of their clothing in a desperate attempt to blend in, and many others were shot by the Chinese supervisory unit as they tried to flee.
The last number of the Tribun appeared on 24 April, although Lebois in the Ami du peuple tried to incite the soldiers to revolt, and for a while there were rumours of a military rising.
Many soldiers and civilians tried to open the gate and escape.
Nearby enemy soldiers often tried to shoot down pigeons, knowing that released birds were carrying important messages.
Apparently, those orders were never countermanded because the soldiers of the 36th Division confronted those who tried to go through the tiny openings of the gate.
Because it showed dead GIs wrapped in mattress covers, some officers tried to prevent soldiers in training from seeing it, for fear of damaging morale.
Cassius tried in all ways to reinforce the soldiers ’ loyalty both with strong speeches (" Let it give no one any concern that he has been one of Caesar's soldiers.
After Jeremiah prophesied that Jerusalem would be handed over to the Babylonian army, the king ’ s officials, including Pashur the priest, tried to convince King Zedekiah that Jeremiah should be put to death because he was discouraging the soldiers as well as the people.
The two teenagers, too young to become Red Cross nurses like their mother and elder sisters, played games of checkers and billiards with the soldiers and tried to uplift their spirits.
Escalating the attack, he tried to forcibly convert the Huguenots by using armed dragonnades ( soldiers ) to occupy and loot their houses.
In 308, probably April, Maximian tried to depose his son in an assembly of soldiers in Rome ; surprisingly to him, the present troops remained faithful to his son, and he had to flee to Constantine.
The next day, Dumouriez again tried to rally soldiers against the Convention ; however, he found that the artillery had declared for the Republic, leaving him and Louis Philippe with no choice but to go into exile.
In the meantime, Banza tried to obtain a support base within the army, spending much of his time in the company of soldiers.
Bennett's men rode into Owensboro, tried and failed to rob a local bank, took 13 Union soldiers of the 108th Coloured Infantry prisoner, executed them, burned the bodies on a supply boat and escaped back to Tennessee having covered a total of on horseback inside six days.
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I tried to quiet Nadine because the children were there.
Now, far too late, Villeroi tried to redeploy his 50 unused squadrons, but a desperate attempt to form line facing south, stretching from Offus to Mont St André, floundered amongst the baggage and tents of the French camp carelessly left there after the initial deployment.
He was still only 20 years old, yet now there was an expectation that he would help with the rebuilding of the club as Busby's aides tried to piece together what remained of the season.
While there, Space Ghost tried ( and failed ) to show he was " hip " to rap, saying his favorite rapper was M. C. Escher.
In Connelly v DPP ( AC 1254 ), the Law Lords ruled that a defendant could not be tried for any offence arising out of substantially the same set of facts relied upon in a previous charge of which he had been acquitted, unless there are " special circumstances " proven by the prosecution.
However, where the insurgents dominated the routes by which the British tried to funnel reinforcements into the city, there was fierce fighting.
The Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911 saw another dispute over Morocco erupt when France tried to suppress a revolt there.
In addition, although he tried to account for his personal influences, there is an inherent bias when someone serves as researcher as well as participant.
Both UMNO and the MCA were nervous about the possible appeal of Lee's People's Action Party ( then seen as a radical socialist party ) to voters in Malaya, and tried to organise a party in Singapore to challenge Lee's position there.
In many common law jurisdictions ( e. g. the Republic of Ireland, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Australia, New Zealand ), an indictable offence is an offence which can only be tried on an indictment after a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is a prima facie case to answer or by a grand jury ( in contrast to a summary offence ).
On one occasion, she begged Malibu neighbour Larry Hagman to check Moon into yet another clinic to dry out, ( as he had tried more than once before ) but when doctors recorded Moon's intake at breakfast ( a full bottle of champagne along with Courvoisier along with amphetamines ), they allegedly concluded there was no hope in his rehabilitation.
In 2004, a documentary team for television channel Five, using special effects experts from movies, tried to make people believe there was something in the loch.
He was taken to Aachen by Louis, who there had him tried and condemned to death for treason.
Remaining at the university, he tried to strike up conversations with academics working there, but most snubbed him because of his rural Hunanese accent and lowly position as librarian's assistant.
A number of people were accused of shooting Ngouabi tried and some of them executed, including former President Alphonse Massemba-Débat, but there was little evidence to prove their involvement, and the motive behind the assassination remains unclear.
The Swedish author Mirjam Tapper has edited a book on Rilke's stay in Paris, where she reflected on the many addresses Rilke lived at and tried to find the correlation between his stay there and his poems.
If this helps keep them safe from harm this is considered to be a good thing, but there have been cases where hostages have tried to shield the captors during an assault or refused to co-operate with the authorities in bringing prosecutions.
" This decision came under attack by Family Voice Australia ( formerly the Festival of Light Australia ), the Australian Christian Lobby and Liberal Party of Australia Senator Julian McGauran, who tried to have the lifted ban overturned, but the Board refused, stating " The film has aged plus there is bonus material that clearly shows it is fiction.
On April 24, 1616 they tried to moor at the " Island of Good Hope " ( Niuafo ' ou ), but a less welcoming reception there made them decide to sail on.
In the social disruption following WWI, as cities tried to absorb veterans into the labor market, there was social tension and anti-black sentiment.
At one sedition trial in the early 1790s, the Attorney – General tried to prohibit Thomas Cooper from publishing his response to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, arguing that " although there was no exception to be taken to his pamphlet when in the hands of the upper classes, yet the government would not allow it to appear at a price which would insure its circulation among the people.
The fighting there had killed the previous governor and routed Cestius Gallus, the governor of Syria, when he tried to restore order.
Echeverria, Klinkhammer and Thorne published a paper discussing these results in 1991 ; in addition, they reported that they had tried to see if they could find any initial conditions for the billiard ball for which there were no self-consistent extensions, but were unable to do so.
Once a slave agreed to join her expedition, there was no turning back ; she threatened to shoot anyone who tried to return.
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