Li's attempts to carry out his policies faced varying degrees of opposition from Chiang's supporters, and were generally unsuccessful.

Davis, who was the top rusher in the game, gained 137 yards on just 16 rush attempts, an average of 8. 5 yards per carry.

Tyler's rushing yards came off just 218 rushing attempts, giving him a league leading 5. 1 yards per carry average.

Another book, The Unlikely Spy, is a novel that focuses on Allied attempts to carry out Fortitude, as well as a German agent's race to discover the true plans.

Although she appears as one of the series ' major villains, she is frequently a source of comic relief: In Magica's final scene in the series for example, she attempts to send Scrooge's " tin man back to OZ ", but is herself sent elsewhere in a whirlwind when a Quackenyeeken Yeeker bird yeeks in fear, causing her jar of magic dust to break open and carry her away.

Their attempts to carry the piano up the stairs result in it rolling and crashing into the street below several times, often with Ollie in tow.

Two attempts to carry the works by storm during the Siege of Port Hudson, as at Vicksburg, were dismal failures.

* Inga Swenson — Ingrid Svenson — Corinne's biological mother, who attempts to carry out revenge upon the Tate / Campbell family by sleeping with the judge in Jessica's trial and blackmailing Sally into trying to break up Burt and Mary.

The Kentucky Encyclopedia refers to the Kentucky Gazette for his eulogy, " He possessed a mind extremely active and, as his whole property was expended in attempts to carry his plans to execution, he consequently died poor.

Without hesitation and ignoring attempts to restrain him, Chaplain Watters left the perimeter three times in the face of small arms, automatic weapons, and mortar fire to carry and to assist the injured troopers to safety.

Such failed schemes may include Penelope's attempts at outsmarting the fictional security guard of the studio in which episodes of the Amanda Show are filmed and at manipulating Amanda's cast-mates into helping her carry out her plans.

The Congress chose the latter, and for the express purpose of securing and defending the united colonies, and preserving them in safety, against all attempts to carry the above-mentioned acts into execution by force of arms.

Each team attempts to carry the ball back to their own goal from the turn-up, rather than the more traditional method of scoring at / in the opponents goal.

On 23 February 1885, three attempts were made to carry out his execution at Exeter Prison.

* November 8 – The crew of Imperial Airlines Flight 201 / 8, a Lockheed L-1049 Constellation chartered by the United States Army to carry new recruits to Columbia, South Carolina, for training, mishandles fuel flow problems to the aircrafts starboard engines, then attempts an emergency landing at Byrd Field in Richmond, Virginia, where it crashes.

Marketers trained in the use of these tools are able to carry out customer nurturing, which is a tactic that attempts to communicate with each individual in an organization at the right time, using the right information to meet that client's need to progress through the process of identifying a problem, learning options available to resolve it, selecting the right solution, and making the purchasing decision.

He encouraged the General Assembly to enact laws to prevent the " unlawful attempts to seize and carry into bondage persons of color legally entitled to their freedom: and at the same time, as far as practical, to prevent those who rightfully owe service to the citizen of any other State of Territory, from seeking, within the limits of this State, a refuge from the possession of their lawful masters.

This approach to semantics is principally associated with Donald Davidson, and attempts to carry out for the semantics of natural language what Tarski's semantic theory of truth achieves for the semantics of logic ( Davidson 1967 ).

After these the top eight athletes carry their record forward and then have a further three attempts to decide the gold medalist.

It attempts to carry out quantization, for which there is in general no exact recipe, in such a way that certain analogies between the classical theory and the quantum theory remain manifest.

Typically, there are many plot twists, and film focuses on the characters ' attempts to formulate a plan, carry it out, and escape with the goods.

Alexander's final regular season statistics for 2007 were 716 yards rushing on 207 attempts, a 3. 5 – yard per carry with four touchdowns in 10 games.

A common feature of all attempts to create a path which would lead to peace is the fact that more often than not promises to carry out " good will measures " were not carried out by both sides.

During the attack on the Dargai Heights, Tirah, British India, when a captain of The Derbyshire Regiment was struck down, Lieutenant Pennell ran to his assistance and made two attempts, under a hail of bullets, to carry and drag him back to cover.

The present attempts of the politicians to contaminate ordinary Britons shows that this British common sense is unwilling to pull somebody else's chestnuts out of the fire by new military adventures ''.

He used the new passport to acquire a new B-1 / B-2 visa in Jeddah on April 23, again recopying his answers from previously although crossing out the lines regarding Mushabib and previous attempts to acquire a visa.

Ever the idealist, he never gives up on educating and enlightening the duo no matter how disastrous his attempts to do so turn out.

:( 6 ) a fielder unsuccessfully attempts to put out a preceding runner and, in the official scorer's judgment, the batter-runner would not have been put out at first base by ordinary effort.

One out of three people with bipolar disorder report past attempts of suicide or complete it, and the annual average suicide rate is 0. 4 %, which is 10 to 20 times that of the general population.

The myths should not be understood as attempts to work out a rational explanation of deity.

These attempts were felt necessary by many to both settle and define a doctrinal stance for the newly emerging denomination and to keep out error.

The remainder of the first of the two Cathar wars now essentially focused on Simon's attempt to hold on to his fabulous gains through winters where he was faced, with only a small force of confederates operating from the main winter camp at Fanjeau, with the desertion of local lords who had sworn fealty to him out of necessity — and attempts to enlarge his newfound domains in the summer when his forces were greatly augmented by reinforcements from northern France, Germany and elsewhere.

After the publication of these findings, various attempts to replicate the remote viewing findings were quickly carried out.

Any definition that attempts to set out the essence of something, such as that by genus and differentia, is an intensional definition.

A receiver loses his eligibility by leaving the field of play unless he was forced out by a defensive player and immediately attempts to get back inbounds ( Rule 7-3-4 ).

The authors ' caveats and repeated efforts at alternative definition have been echoed in subsequent scholarship: in the more than five decades since, there have been innumerable further attempts at definition, yet in the words of cinema historian Mark Bould, film noir remains an " elusive phenomenon ... always just out of reach ".

Crick was witness to the kinds of errors that his co-workers made in their failed attempts to make a correct molecular model of the α helix ; these turned out to be important lessons that could be applied, in the future, to the helical structure of DNA.

ISBN 0-19-321468-7 ( out of print ; one of the first attempts at " direct approach ", meaning Morris does away with Fux ' five species ).

Jon often attempts to ask her out on a date, but rarely succeeds ; however, in an extended story arc from June 19 to July 29, 2006 ( the main event on July 28 ), Liz and Jon kiss.

The character was a clown ... with red cheeks and wild clown hair ... and the running joke was his attempts of becoming a big singing star and in every skit just as he was preparing to pull out a guitar and start to sing, the camera would zoom out and the door swing shut.

Companies take different attitudes towards such practices, ranging from open acceptance ( such as Texas Instruments for its graphing calculators and Lego for its Lego Mindstorms robotics gear ) to outright hostility ( such as Microsoft's attempts to lock out Xbox hackers or the DRM routines on Blu-ray Disc players designed to sabotage compromised players ).

Hannibal's perilous march brought him into the Roman territory and frustrated the attempts of the enemy to fight out the main issue on foreign ground.

The government increasingly resorted to force in its attempts to stamp out the Cameronians and the other Society Men, in a period subsequently labelled as the Killing Time.

In the early 9th century Charlemagne, whose attempts to Christianise the area were opposed by the Saxons, moved the Saxons out and brought in Polabian Slavs, allied to Charlemagne, in their stead.

On the other hand, there have also been attempts to use a common-language mass media to reach out to a large, geographically dispersed population, such as in the use of Arabic language by news channel Al Jazeera.