The family's periodic attempts to return to the mountains were often prompted by Granny due to a perceived slight she received from one of the " city-folk.

If the receiver is not ready when the service is delivered, a let shall be called ; yet, if the receiver attempts to return the shuttlecock, he shall be judged to have been ready.

The central uplift is not the result of elastic rebound, which is a process in which a material with elastic strength attempts to return to its original geometry ; rather the collapse is a process in which a material with little or no strength attempts to return to a state of gravitational equilibrium.

The election resulted in a hung parliament with the Tories having the most votes but Labour having slightly more seats, and failed attempts by Heath to form a coalition with the Liberals led to the resignation of his government and the return of Harold Wilson as prime minister of a minority Labour government, which gained a three-seat majority at a second election later in the year.

He is shown making repeated attempts to court her during The Man of Steel, though Lois plainly does not return his feelings.

John Cleese ( right ) attempts to return his dead Norwegian Blue parrot to Michael Palin

Further attempts to improve weapons security were implemented during 2005 with fortnightly weapon checks and making unit commanders accountable for the return of weapons, with serious action threatened for any defaults.

But it also seeks to return to its cause, and so in Thinking it attempts to grasp the One as its Good.

Soul attempts to grasp Intellect in its return, and ends up producing its own secondary unfoldings of the Forms in Intellect.

Fund-raising for the crusade was more successful than the half-hearted attempts to storm Smyrna, with little to show in return.

The Doctor attempts to repair the circuit in " Logopolis " and " Attack of the Cybermen ", but the successful transformation of the TARDIS into the shapes of a pipe organ, a painted Welsh dresser ( much to the amusement of Perpurgilliam " Peri " Brown and the Sixth Doctor's annoyance ) and an elaborate gateway in the latter serial was followed by a return to the police box shape.

This and other attempts to regain political control of Florence were frustrated, until a bloodless revolution permitted the return of the Medici.

* Art restoration, a process that attempts to return the work of art to some previous state

When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Prewitt, still weak from his unhealed wound, finds out about the attack, and attempts to return to camp under cover of darkness, but is shot dead by a sentry.

He was captured during this operation and after 4 escape attempts in two months, he managed to escape and return to England.

He attempts to return to the British forces and swear off the desert, but he never fits in there.

This claim came to look increasingly tenuous, as John's position under nominal house-arrest meant that he could not return to Scotland nor campaign for his release, despite the Scots ' diplomatic attempts in Paris and Rome.

She believes that the Soldats have been corrupted by power and greed, and attempts to return the Soldats to its " original state " by reviving Noir.

Tintin attempts to return it, but the hotel he claimed to be staying at has never heard of him, and when Tintin calls a phone number found in his wallet, the man refuses to talk to him.

Reports that Nero had in fact survived the assassination attempts were fueled by the vague circumstances surrounding his death and several prophecies foretelling his return.

The novel looks into the experiences of Yossarian and the other airmen in the camp, and their attempts to keep their sanity in order to fulfill their service requirements, so that they can return home.

Through such thought experiments, Wittgenstein attempts to get the reader to come to certain difficult philosophical conclusions independently ; he does not simply argue in favor of his own theories.

Deng's displacement of Hua Guofeng marked the Party leadership's consensus that China should abandon strict Maoist economics in favor of more pragmatic policies, and Hu directed many of Deng's attempts to reform the Chinese economy.

Henry long and faithfully supported his older cousin, Emperor Frederick I ( Barbarossa ), in his attempts to solidify his hold on the Imperial Crown and his repeated wars with the cities of Lombardy and the Popes, several times turning the tide of battle in Frederick's favor with his fierce Saxon knights.

Medon attempts to return the favor by speaking on behalf of his master, claiming that Odysseus ' violence was not unwarranted by the gods.

She complains that, despite increasingly desperate attempts to capture a husband via intensive flirtation at hurling matches, wakes, and pattern days, the young men insist on ignoring her in favor of late marriages to much older women.

Four attempts have been made to consolidate the municipal government of the city of Tampa with the county government of Hillsborough County ( 1967, 1970, 1971, and 1972 ), all of which failed at the ballot box ; the greatest loss was also the most recent attempt in 1972, with the final tally being 33, 160 ( 31 %) in favor and 73, 568 ( 69 %) against the proposed charter.

Two subsequent attempts were made for incorporation, the last resulting in favor of incorporation.

Though their initial interactions were marked by Barnave ’ s shy attempts to avoid eye contact, the queen was soon able to charm the twenty-nine-year-old politician and earn his favor.

There would be subsequent attempts to thicken the front plate, but T-26 production soon ended in favor of other designs, such as the T-34.

An appeal to spite ( also called argumentum ad odium ) is a fallacy in which someone attempts to win favor for an argument by exploiting existing feelings of bitterness, spite, or schadenfreude in the opposing party.

In this capacity, working together with Charles Francis Adams, the American Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Bigelow helped to block the attempts to have France and the United Kingdom intervene in the American Civil War in favor of the Confederacy, and thereby played a material role in the Union victory.

In the novel, Vathek attempts to sacrifice fifty children to a demon in order to gain his favor.

While he had opposed the attempts of the government to expel Wilkes from his seat in Middlesex, his personal dislike of Wilkes overcame his principles, and he voted in favor of the expulsion on 3 February 1769 and for the seating of Henry Luttrell afterwards.

Science-envy is manifested also by those who -- hoping to enhance their prestige by close association with the sciences -- contort themselves in attempts to show that this or that philosophical problem can be quickly settled by some scientific result, or to displace philosophical problems in favor of scientific ones.

These generally favor attempts to remove stigmatization and improve the legal situation of prostitutes, but they retain the long term abolitionist goal of a world without prostitution and encourage all prostitutes to quit.

It is used to describe " claptrap or meretricious attempts to catch popular favor or appplause.

During this time, the " previous attempts to revive the college have centered on an entrepreneurial or business curriculum " were formally abandoned " in favor of focusing more on religious studies.

The New Gods back the Malwa Empire of India and commence attempts to conquer the world and stamp out meritorious accomplishment as a means to privilege and instead favor planned eugenics and hereditary birth ( Autocracy ) in order to change the future.

The Global Warming Petition Project also known as the Oregon Petition, is a petition which attempts to demonstrate that the claim of " settled science " and an overwhelming " consensus in favor of the hypothesis of human-caused global warming and consequent climate damage is wrong.

This status was secure until the May Coup in 1926, after which there were various attempts to limit it in favor of a strong and centralised state.

In further attempts to gain the nobles ' favor, the King proposed a match between his eldest legitimized daughter Marguerite to John's eldest illegitimate son Louis de Bourbon.

Each attempted to gain the favor of Afghanistan and foil attempts by the other power to gain influence in the region.

She complains that, despite increasingly desperate attempts to capture a husband via intensive flirtation at hurling matches, wakes, and pattern days, the young men insist on ignoring her in favor of late marriages to much older women.

The city and Mr. Schuler attempted to lease the same land from the Corps of Engineers in 2004, but abandoned those attempts in favor of legislation mandating the transfer, due to the inability to use the land for the intended purposes under a lease without an update of the Corps Shoreline Management Plan ( SMP ) for Lake Texoma.