When people wanted to talk to someone in the outside world, the would ask the operator for the number, and she'd connect them to the long-distance operator in Bowling Green, who would complete the call.

Gadsden wanted to connect all Southern railroads into one sectional network.

Norwood described the CD as her most mature and versatile effort by then: " I just wanted to sing my heart out and connect with people.

He wanted to connect the booming industrial towns of Glasgow, Paisley and Johnstone to his new deep sea port at Ardrossan and his Ayrshire coal fields.

The London County Council had for many years wanted to connect its " North Side " and " South Side " tramway netwoks in order to be able to send " North Side " trams for overhaul to the Central Repair Depot at Charlton in South East London.

The founders of CIWL wanted to establish a direct link between Saint Petersburg and Lisbon to connect with ocean liners to America.

Hanssen claimed all he wanted to do was connect a color printer to his computer, but needed the password cracker to get around the administrative password.

Working with Mynga Futrell, the co-founders of the Brights movement wanted to connect and galvanize the many individuals who were non-religious, but who were not associated with the many philosophical organisations already in existence.

Metro wanted to build an expressway through to the Gardiner, while the city wanted to build an expressway further west, in the vicinity of Christie Street, which would connect the Crosstown to the Gardiner.

Even before the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson wanted to connect the distant Mississippi frontier to other settled areas of the United States.

They induced them whenever they wanted to connect to their deities, other dimensions of reality, and with the forces of nature.

Ilmajoki wanted to connect Seinäjoki back to its own parish.

The target audience for Cranium ( board game ) was “ 25-35 year old, dating yuppies who wanted to connect to each other .” Cranium, Inc. partnered with its investor, Starbucks, and sold the game at over 1500 Starbucks locations.

Sometimes I had to sit down with Pete and have really good heart-to-hearts with him to get through all of that and connect with the real musician and artist that's underneath .. I wanted to prove to those people that he can make a decent record.

Sakamoto explained that the developers wanted to make the game connect to Metroid Prime 2: Echoes on the GameCube, but the fact that both their release dates were far apart and not enough development time to implement connectivity features prevented them from doing so.

The proposal was overridden by New York State Governor Thomas E. Dewey, who wanted to construct a bridge to connect the New York State Thruway across Westchester to the New England Thruway.

The overall purpose of US 311 is to connect nearby cities and towns to Winston-Salem ; thus if a traveler wanted to go from the south terminus to the north terminus of US 311, the quickest route would be to take Future Interstate 73 / US 220.

The German foreign ministry at Wilhelmstraße, on the other hand, wanted to exploit Finland's precarious situation after the fall of Vyborg to connect military aid to political concessions.

These systems allowed the user to " dial up " the Gandalf box and then instruct it what computer they wanted to connect to.

Gandalf's solutions were decidedly " low tech "; users selected what computer they wanted to connect to by selecting a two-digit number on the front of the modem, often requiring a " phone book " if more than one host computer was being used.

At this conference the Ottomans extended their demands to include Tiflis as well as Alexandropol and Echmiadzin, where they wanted to build a railroad to connect Kars and Julfa with Baku.

Their leader, Petro Doroshenko, wanted to connect the rest of Ukraine with the Ottoman Empire, starting a rebellion against Hetman ( Polish army commander ) John III Sobieski.

When Steve Wynn had planned the new Mirage Resort in Atlantic City, he wanted to connect a $ 330 million tunnel from the Atlantic City Expressway to the new resort, later named the Atlantic City-Brigantine Connector, which would funnel incoming traffic off the Atlantic City Expressway into the city's marina district.

She dismissed the possibility that other countries might try to seize her territories and immediately started ensuring the imperial dignity for herself ; since a woman could not be elected Holy Roman Empress, Maria Theresa wanted to secure the imperial office for her husband.

The usable model at hand, when Constantine wanted to memorialise his imperial piety, was the familiar conventional architecture of the basilicas.

However, the rulers of Metz felt that the city occupied an almost independent position between the Kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire and wanted to evade the obligation of imperial taxes and attendance at the Imperial Diets.

Probably because he wanted to pre-empt Perdiccas, the imperial regent, from staking his claim in this way, Ptolemy took great pains in acquiring the body of Alexander the Great, placing it temporarily in Memphis, Egypt.

Leo, on the other hand, wanted to keep Gaiseric as far as possible from the imperial court at Ravenna, and took time to choose a successor to Severus.

Many of Europe's major elites also found advantages in formal, overseas expansion: large financial and industrial monopolies wanted imperial support to protect their overseas investments against competition and domestic political tensions abroad ; bureaucrats wanted and sought government offices ; military officers desired promotion ; and the traditional but waning landed gentries sought increased profits for their investments, formal titles, and high office.

" As Xenos intemperately says, " Strauss was somebody who wanted to go back to a previous, pre-liberal, pre-bourgeois era of blood and guts, of imperial domination, of authoritarian rule, of pure fascism.

They, in alliance with the imperial consorts who wanted to replace Empress Song, falsely accused her of using witchcraft to curse the emperor.

The usable model at hand, when Emperor Constantine I wanted to memorialize his imperial piety, was the familiar conventional architecture of the basilicas.

) When Sima Shi asked her for the imperial seal, she again reasoned with him and refused politely, under the reasoning that she had met Cao Mao before and wanted to personally hand him the seal.

Although there is no evidence he wanted to go back to Heian period policies like Chikafusa, there is clear evidence he believed it possible to restore not only imperial power, but also its culture.

Initially the duke believed him, but later realized that if the empress dowager wanted to restore him, she would send imperial guards to escort him, and therefore realized that there was no edict.

The imperial state wanted to reinforce the three bonds of society ; between the parent and child, husband and wife, and ruler and subject.

After the November uprising imperial officials wanted to minimize the social base for another potential uprising and thus decided to reduce the noble class.

While Bahadur Shah Zafar was restored to the imperial throne there was a faction that wanted the Maratha rulers to be enthroned also, and the Awadhis wanted to retain the powers that their Nawab used to have.

In 843, Liu Congjian the military governor ( Jiedushi ) of Zhaoyi Circuit ( 昭義, headquartered in modern Changzhi, Shanxi ), who had governed Zhaoyi in de facto independence from the imperial government and who had a strident rivalry with Qiu Shiliang, was seriously ill, and Liu wanted his adoptive son ( and biological nephew ) Liu Zhen to succeed him, and set up the power structure at the circuit to facilitate the transition.

While Berengar occupied Pavia, Lambert and Ageltrude travelled to Rome to receive papal confirmation of his imperial title, but Pope Formosus wanted instead to crown Arnulf and was imprisoned in the Castel Sant ' Angelo.

Yu Fang ( 于方 ), an advisor to an imperial prince, who wanted to submit an extraordinary suggestion to gain a promotion, suggested to Yuan that Yu's friends Wang Zhao ( 王昭 ) and Yu Youming ( 于友明 ) be sent to Wang Tingcou's Chengde Circuit ( 成德, headquartered in modern Shijiazhuang, Hebei ) to try to persuade Wang Tingcou's officers to lift the siege on Shen Prefecture.

In winter 188 BC, Grand Empress Dowager Lü wanted to make her brothers princes, against her husband Liu Bang ( Emperor Gao )' s rule that only members of the imperial Liu clan may be made princes – a rule that she herself had a hand in creating.

He believed that the people were supportive of the Han Dynasty and would not tolerate a takeover ; and that given that there were many other principalities outside the capital, that the officials, even if they had wanted, would be unable to usurp imperial power.

On one occasion, Emperor Hui's mother Empress Dowager Lü wanted to give some of the ladies in waiting to the imperial princes as gifts.