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attempts and strengthen
The supporters of Alexander Hamilton's attempts to strengthen the national government called themselves Federalists, while those who opposed Hamilton called themselves " Republicans " ( later historians would refer to them as the Democratic-Republican party ).
As imports were difficult, attempts were made to strengthen the Swiss economy.
At this time, Saddam moved up the ranks in the new government by aiding attempts to strengthen and unify the Ba ' ath party and taking a leading role in addressing the country's major domestic problems and expanding the party's following.
His attempts at the diet of Nuremberg in 1422 to raise a mercenary army were foiled by the resistance of the towns ; and in 1424 the electors, among whom was Sigismund's former ally, Frederick I of Hohenzollern, sought to strengthen their own authority at the expense of the king.
Lester's attempts to " strengthen traditional masculinity " conflict with his responsibilities as a father.
He attempts to walk the route of neutrality to avoid choosing sides, but ends up being tricked into taking sides twice-firstly by having a Chaos dagger planted on him as he sleeps before attempting to take the middle path in a three-way choice between the extremes of Order and Chaos ( this is rather appropriate: he would rather aid neither side, but his chosen method is usually the magic of Chaos ), and secondly he is coerced into aiding the Pattern to strengthen its position in Shadows, while rescuing Coral from her imprisonment.
His reign was occupied with attempts to strengthen the crown against the Union of Aragon and other such devices of the nobility, with their near constant revolts, and with foreign wars, in Sardinia, Sicily, the Mezzogiorno, Greece, and the Balearics.
He gave up his dynastic ambitions and concentrated instead on attempts to strengthen the Commonwealth.
Since 2003 this alumni-and fundraising organization has maintained close contact to alumni and scientists of the Freie Universität in the U. S. and attempts to gain alumni and friends as sponsors, to strengthen the long-lasting trans-Atlantic relations.
Some attempts were also made to strengthen the executive branch of government to prevent the unstable situation that had existed before the war, but the instability remained and the Fourth Republic saw frequent changes in government – there were 20 governments in ten years.
He made biting attacks on the Anti-Corn Law League in attempts to strengthen the Chartist movement.
There have been two failed attempts ( the Twelfth Amendment Bill in 1992, and the Twenty-fifth Amendment Bill in 2002 ) to strengthen the constitutional ban so that it cannot be interpreted as giving to a woman the right to have an abortion if she claims that she will otherwise commit suicide.
Furthermore, the British Government rebuff and vetoed attempts and proposals by U. S. Science Adviser Vannevar Bush and highly regarded U. S. government official James Bryant Conant in 1941 to strengthen cooperation between Great Britain and America.
This program serves as a gauge by which potentially targeted incumbents commit themselves to meet rigorous goals in attempts to strengthen their campaigns and work towards victory.
By November 1924, after over 36 attempts to strengthen the flakes to withstand packaging, the process for creating the flakes had been perfected by the Washburn head miller, George Cormack, and the cereal was named Washburn's Gold Medal Whole Wheat Flakes.
Two days later, he announced his retirement from professional soccer, saying, " After numerous attempts to strengthen and stabilize my knee through rehab, it became clear that I had no alternative but to have reconstructive surgery.
The rationale used in cognitive restructuring attempts to strengthen the client's belief that ( 1 ) ' self-talk ' can influence performance, and ( 2 ) in particular self-defeating thoughts or negative self-statements can cause emotional distress and interfere with performance, a process that then repeats again in a cycle.
So far, Mikitani's attempts to strengthen the team have met little success.
Once there, she attempts to form a bond with Quara, the most isolated and confrontational of Novinha's children with somewhat greater success than the other characters ; Wang-mu further determines to strengthen this progress until the two of them can openly be friends.
Maqbool ( Macbeth ) attempts to have Boji murdered in order to strengthen power within the organized crime circle.
Soon however, he became dissatisfied with Zygmunt's attempts to strengthen royal power and weaken the nobility ( szlachta ).
Using the Ξ Gundam Mafty attempts to attack a meeting of high-ranking Federation cabinet members in Adelaide, Australia to force them to vote down a provision which would strengthen the Federations already considerable powers.
Lore begins to doubt Data's devotion, and attempts to strengthen control by threatening to remove the emotions he has provided.
The military, for its part, resented party attempts to strengthen political education, build a mass militia system under local party control, and conduct economic production activities to the detriment of military training.

attempts and monarchy
Notions of the Mandate of Heaven and divine monarchy were discarded, as shown in two unpopular and failed attempts to restore the imperial system by Yuan Shikai and Zhang Xun.
England witnessed the Second Barons ' War, a civil war fought over the aristocracy's disillusionment with King Henry III's attempts to maintain an absolute monarchy.
Adams served as its first and only " Premier ", but his leadership failed in attempts to form similar unions, and his continued defence of the monarchy was used by his opponents as evidence that he was no longer in touch with the needs of his country.
Adams, once a political visionary and now a man blind to the needs of his country, not only held fast to his notion of defending the monarchy but also made additional attempts to form similarly flawed Federation-like entities after that union's demise.
However, the king's ineffectiveness and the queen's unpopularity undermined the monarchy as an institution, and so these attempts failed.
The titular king of Carthage, Bomilcar, attempts a coup to restore the monarchy to full power.
Asides from a few attempts to, supported with pro-absolutist factions among the nobility reclaim the absolute monarchy held by former predecessors he remained a mere constitutional figurehead until his death, by popular belief attributed to a heavy consumption of semlas.
For a number of months in 1944, communists participated in the Liberation administration of Monaco and it is a moot point to debate how strong a position Louis II was in, in 1944, to resist any attempts to abolish the monarchy in Monaco.
This is highlighted by Claudius's failed attempts to revive the Republic ; by the attempts of various characters to ' restore ' the Republic but with themselves as the true rulers ; and by Claudius noting that ' by dulling the blade of tyranny, I reconciled Rome to the monarchy ' – i. e., in his attempts to rule autocratically but along more Republican lines, he has only made the Roman people more complacent about living under a dictatorship.
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.
The Germans of Holstein, influenced by the new national enthusiasm evoked by the War of Liberation, resented more than ever the attempts of the government of Copenhagen to treat them as part of the Danish monarchy and, encouraged by the sympathy of the Germans in Schleswig, early tried to reassert in the interests of Germanism the old principle of the unity of the duchies.
He was then engaged in unsuccessful attempts to solicit support for the English monarchy from Pope Innocent X.
Heedless to all threats against herself, left alone as the only Western woman in an absolute and anti-Christian monarchy at war with the West, beset with raging fevers and nursing a tiny baby that her husband had not yet seen, she rushed from office to office in desperate attempts to keep her husband alive and win his freedom.
The financial strains made apparent through Calonne's attempts at reform revealed the instability of the monarchy as a whole, which up until then had been managed on the basis of traditional monarchical absolutism: secretly, hierarchically, without public scrutiny of accounts or consent to taxation.
As Premier of Barbados, his leadership failed in attempts to form unions such as the BWU, and his continued defence of the monarchy was used by his opponents as evidence that he was no longer in touch with the needs of his country.
It marked the end of Augustus II of Poland's attempts to create an absolute monarchy in Poland, and the beginning of the Russian Empire's increasing influence and control over the Commonwealth.
The Silent Sejm marked the end of Augustus II's attempts to create an absolute monarchy in Poland ; he subsequently focused his efforts on securing the succession of his son to the Polish throne.
The rokosz, formed on 5 August 1606 by Mikołaj Zebrzydowski, Jan Szczęsny Herburt, Stanisław Stadnicki, Aleksander Józef Lisowski and Janusz Radziwiłł in Stężyca and Lublin, was caused by the growing dissatisfaction with the King among the nobility ( szlachta ), who disapproved of the King's efforts to limit the power of the nobles ( his attempts to weaken the Sejm, the Polish parliament ) and to introduce a hereditary monarchy in place of the elective one ).
The guerrillas initially focused on attacking Israel, but by late 1968, the main fedayeen activities in Jordan appeared to shift to attempts to overthrow the Jordanian monarchy.

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