It was a response to the conflict between political pressure and the moral intuition which resulted in attempts at prediction.

The remedies have been many and varied -- attempts to teach management techniques -- either in plant, at special schools, or in university `` crash '' courses -- provision of management-trained assistants or associates.

No attempts to measure the radio emission of the remaining planets have been reported, and, because of their distances, small diameters, or low temperatures, the thermal radiation at radio wave lengths reaching the earth from these sources is expected to be of very low intensity.

Although there is no question but that the process of washing fabrics involves a number of phenomena which are related together in an extremely complicated way and that these phenomena and their interrelations are not well understood at the present, this section attempts to present briefly an up-to-date picture of the physical chemistry of washing either fabrics or hard surfaces.

I would propose, first, an abandonment of attempts at a universal lexical list, as intrinsically unachievable, and operationally inadequate in proportion as it is achieved.

It is at least as important as the more dramatic attempts to break down barriers of inequality in the South.

Her teeth chattered so that she made three attempts at speech before she became intelligible.

There were attempts at compromise.

He commented favorably on colonization in the Emancipation Proclamation, but all attempts at such a massive undertaking failed.

Other calls include those given by a female in response to the advertisement call and a release call given by a male or female during unwanted attempts at amplexus.

The connection to Phoenician religion claimed by Herodotus I. 105, 131 ) has led to inconclusive attempts at deriving Greek Aphrodite from a Semitic Aštoret, via hypothetical Hittite transmission.

When Ewen rejected these attempts, Alexander sailed forth to compel him, but on the way he suffered a fever at the Isle of Kerrera in the Inner Hebrides.

The able and forceful empress Euphrosyne tried in vain to sustain his credit and his court ; Vatatzes, the favourite instrument of her attempts at reform, was assassinated by the emperor's orders.

After a few failed attempts at invasion, the brothers signed a peace treaty, arranged by Afonso's mother Queen Elizabeth.

Only the Jarawa and Sentinelese still maintain a steadfast independence and refuse most attempts at contact ; their numbers are uncertain but estimated to be in the low hundreds.

This was in marked contrast to the four attempts at political union between 1606 and 1689, which all failed owing to a lack of political will in both kingdoms.

The government, headed by Tony Blair, however, blocked all attempts to revise the succession laws, claiming it would raise too many constitutional issues and it was unnecessary at the time.

In the 7th and the 6th centuries BC, the site was taken over by Kylon during the failed Kylonian revolt, and twice by Pisistratus: all attempts directed at seizing political power by coups d ' etat.

When the colonists came to America, their initial attempts at survival included planting crops familiar to them from back home in England.

His few remaining masses ( the story of his having composed two hundred is hardly credible ) and church music in general are comparatively unimportant, except the great St Cecilia Mass ( 1721 ), which is one of the first attempts at the style which reached its height in the great masses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven.

Traffic shaping usually takes place in the Network Interface Card ( NIC ) in user equipment, and attempts to ensure that the cell flow on a VC will meet its traffic contract, i. e. cells will not be dropped or reduced in priority at the UNI.

Unsuccessful attempts at Cnossus were made by both W. J. Stillman and H. Schliemann, and A. J. Evans, coming on the scene in 1893, travelled in succeeding years about the island picking up trifles of unconsidered evidence, which gradually convinced him that greater things would eventually be found.

Some astronomers endeavoured to explain this by parallax, but these attempts were futile, for the motion was at variance with that which parallax would produce.

A drawing of a glider by Sir George Cayley, one of the early attempts at creating an aerodynamic shape.

His attempts to take control of the whole of Alexander's empire led to his defeat and death at the Battle of Ipsus in 301 BC.

Finding that Baldrick has forgotten to write dates on the machine's dials, the rest of the film follows their attempts to find their way back to 1999, often creating huge historical anomalies in the process which must be corrected before the end.

Europe, which also has a large biotechnology sector and an impressive education system, has encountered trouble in creating uniform standards as the European community attempts to supplant some of the national jurisdictional barriers that still exist.

Yan Xishan continued in his attempts to work with both sides, creating the impression among Li's supporters that he was a " stooge " of Chiang, while those who supported Chiang began to bitterly resent Yan for his willingness to work with Li.

The idea of creating artificial intelligence led some computer scientists to believe that teachers could be replaced by computers, through something like an expert system ; however, attempts to accomplish this have predictably proved inflexible.

There have been several attempts, both successful and unsuccessful, at creating other anarchist-communist societies throughout much of the world.

During the Middle Ages, there were several attempts at creating stringed keyboard instruments with struck strings.

Several attempts at creating the vase must have been made, as modern reproduction trials show today ( see below ).

After failed attempts at creating defence ( European Defence Community ) and political communities ( European Political Community ), leaders met at the Messina Conference and established the Spaak Committee which produced the Spaak report.

Nevertheless, there have been attempts at creating standards for type codes, and a subset of devices follow those.

In 1955, while on holiday with his wife Irene and their child, he saw a rabbit hopping around their house and later made attempts to draw it, thereby creating Miffy.

The term was first applied to a system proposed in 1796, though a number of pasigraphies had been devised prior to that ; Leopold Einstein reviews 60 attempts at creating an international auxiliary language, the majority of the 17th-18th century projects being pasigraphies of one kind or another, while Arika Okrent includes a list of 500 in her book on the subject, with samples of many.

Senator Dill and Representative White had several attempts at creating regulation laws prior to the Dill White Bill.

Huracan ( also Hurakan, Harakan and Jurakan ), in Mayan understandable as Jun Raqan " one legged ", ( often referred to as U K ' ux Kaj ' Heart of Sky ') is a K ' iche ' Maya god of wind, storm, fire and one of the creator deities who participated in all three attempts at creating humanity.

In Maya mythology, Tzacol or Tzakol was a sky god and one of the creator deities who participated in the last two attempts at creating humanity.

Custom motor builders continue to operate on the periphery of the market today, often creating propellants that produce colored flame ( red, blue, and green being common ), black smoke and sparking combinations, as well as occasionally building enormous motors of P, Q, and even R class for special projects such as extreme-altitude attempts over 17, 000 m ( 50, 000 ft ).

The aristocracy made failed attempts to counteract this situation by creating short-term leases of their lands to allow periodic revaluation of rent.

Globke had studied British attempts to " order " its empire by creating hierarchical social orders, for example in the organization of " martial races " in India.

In some cases it can take over one hundred attempts to produce the desired effect of a single character but the process of creating the work is considered as much an art as the end product itself.

The story of the Fall of Man from the Garden of Eden in Judaism and Christianity can be seen in a similar light, which would give the basis for theodicies, which attempts to reconcile the existence of evil in the world with the existence of God creating a global explanation of history with the belief in a Messianic Age.

This was not accepted by militant monarchists who, in the following years, continued their badly prepared attempts to restore the monarchy ( for example on October 20, 1914 ), creating anarchy in the streets.

) It is one of the first attempts at creating a quantum information theory, showing that Shannon information theory cannot directly be generalized to the quantum case, but rather that it is possible to construct a quantum information theory, which is a generalization of Shannon's theory, within the formalism of a generalized quantum mechanics of open systems and a generalized concept of observables ( the so-called semi-observables ).

The OSL attempts to counteract that by creating a pool of software which a user can use if that user does not harm it by attacking it with a patent lawsuit.

To this end, she wrote and published a monograph on the topic in which she considers the history of the movement, historical and contemporary attempts at creating a non-national interlangauge and delves into the issues of how the ideal interlanguage should look, what conditions it should satisfy and how it should be implemented.