Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

The family as presently defined is polyphyletic, including several unrelated lineages whose similarities are based upon their shared association with figs ; efforts are underway to resolve the matter, and remove a number of constituent groups to other families, particularly the Pteromalidae and Torymidae.

The Iran-Contra matter resulted from NSC-led efforts to develop a policy to befriend Iran and provide arms to that nation in exchange for its resistance to the Soviet Union and, more particularly to assist in the freeing of American hostages held by Muslim extremist groups in the Middle East.

And persuaded that Caerus has a bad influence in the matter of thefts, humans spent huge resources and efforts in perfecting locks and keys and passwords and every kind of safety measures, with the help of which they hope to outwit Opportunity.

" However, the point upon which a number of critics fail to concur with Burrell's argument is its dismissal of the testimony of the book's author on the matter as " misleading ... publicity efforts ".

Salinas asserted that his efforts were a matter of turning Fujimori over for trial, for violating the Peruvian constitution.

After all these wonderful years working together, we realized that now is the time to pursue our personal goals and solo efforts in earnest ... No matter what happens, we will always love each other as friends and sisters and will always support each other as artists.

" That Fischer yielded to the pressure of his political patron and made active efforts to join the Socialist party from mid-1938 on was probably also a matter of calculation, and closely connected with his plans for reorganizing the institute, which were not to be realized without strong political cover.

So strongly did he feel about this matter that he cultivated negotiation efforts that some regarded as approaching insubordination.

Beckett would be on the front line of the government's efforts to tackle climate change, and attended international conferences on the matter.

Party efforts to rely on regulations rather than whim to try to control the media — as evidenced by the dozens of directives set forth when the State Press and Publications Administration was created in 1987, and by new regulations in 1990 and 1994 — probably were intended to tighten party control, making it a matter of law rather than personal relationships.

Brüning called the Act the " most monstrous resolution ever demanded of a parliament ", and was sceptical about Kaas ' efforts: " The party has difficult years ahead, no matter how it would decide.

However, the degree to which the revolution must be made by conscious forces has always been a matter of dispute among Marxists, with many arguing that Marx ' famous statement that " I am not a Marxist " was a rejection of determinism, and the split was sharpened by the First World War, when the social democratic parties of the Second International supported their respective nations ' war efforts.

A Provincial Reconstruction Team ( PRT ) is a unit introduced by the United States government, consisting of military officers, diplomats, and reconstruction subject matter experts, working to support reconstruction efforts in unstable states.

But on 4 May he sent the matter to the House of Lords, troublesome timing because ( as Sandys had already argued ) the upper house was preoccupied, with efforts to undermine George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.

The justification and adequacy of these efforts, especially in the light of constructivist and other postmodern viewpoints, remains a matter of debate.

After efforts to settle the matter failed, the Greenpeace Foundation filed a civil lawsuit in San Francisco charging that the San Francisco group was in violation of trademark and copyright by using the Greenpeace name without permission of the Greenpeace Foundation.

As the song describes, the two men do not give up in their efforts to rescue the angel girl, no matter how many times they fail.

" As eternity is longer than time, as mind is stronger than matter, as thought is swifter than the wind, as genius is more potent than gold, so will the results of well-directed labors toward the development of man's higher faculties ever outweigh a thousand fold any estimate in the currency of commerce, which man can put upon such efforts.

The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ), however, views naked shorting as a serious enough matter to have made two separate efforts to restrict the practice.

These efforts, along with those of Forster, involved making the metric tensor ( which had previously been assumed to be symmetric and real-valued ) into an asymmetric and / or complex-valued tensor, and they also attempted to create a field theory for matter as well.

Typical of most efforts at translation, this 19th-century one by Walter Headlam ( 1866 – 1908 ) takes the subject matter of Anacreon's verses and works them into a rhyming style typical of the English poetry written in Headlam's day.

Sharp's painting Snow Job was an expression of his feelings about this matter, and if it had not been for the efforts of Sharp and his friends and supporters, Sydney might have lost an important part of its character.

in January 2004 has yet to be implemented, despite the efforts of some advocates of such a policy, who cite the fact that cows are herbivores, and that blood and fecal matter could potentially carry BSE.

For example, he captured some persons from York County, who with teams were taking to Philadelphia the furniture of a man who had just been released from prison through the efforts of his wife, and who apparently was helpless to prevent the theft of his household goods.

How could the rich, for whom life was made so simple, ever understand the subterfuges, the lies, the frauds, the errors, sins and even crimes to which the poor were driven in their efforts to overcome the great advantages the rich had in the race of life??

Resolved that his wrongs and bereavements in Kansas, occasioned by the violence and brutality of those who were intent on the propagation of slavery in that territory, call for a charitable judgment upon his recent efforts in Virginia to undermine the despotism from which he had suffered, and commend his family to the special sympathy and aid of all who pity suffering and reverence justice.

This letter might not have been necessary had our efforts to meet and talk with you been more successful.

She spoke also with deep thankfulness of the many individuals and agencies whose interest and efforts through the years had made the work so fruitful in results.

But in general the European efforts to make an art of the entertainment had ignored the slowly emerging language of the film itself.

Andy had no desire to linger himself but Hub reported that the mob outside was still large despite the efforts of the police to disperse them.

The first incident occurred before the trial got under way when Judge H. Hobart Grooms told the jury panel he had heard reports of jury-tampering efforts.

This was the last try to develop itself as a sports club rather than just a football team, such as Lomas, Belgrano and Quilmes had successfully done in the past, but the efforts were not enough.

One of his first acts as Emperor was to persuade the Senate to grant divine honours to Hadrian, which they had at first refused ; his efforts to persuade the Senate to grant these honours is the most likely reason given for his title of Pius ( dutiful in affection ; compare pietas ).

By the beginning of 1204, Isaac II and Alexios IV had inspired little confidence among the people of Constantinople in their efforts to defend the city from the Latins and Venetians, who were restless and rioted when the money and aid promised by Alexios IV was not forthcoming.

He was next sent by the Pope to the Emperor Sigismund to ask his aid in the pope's efforts to end this Council, which for five years had been encroaching on papal prerogatives.

The Catholic Encyclopaedia make the point that the oath and the penalties were so severe that it stopped the efforts of the Gallicanizing party among the English Catholics, who had been ready to offer forms of submission similar to the old oath of Allegiance, which was condemned anew about this time by Pope Innocent X.

Disraeli's efforts over the past two years had dispelled, for the time being, any doubts about him succeeding Derby as leader of the Conservative Party and therefore Prime Minister.

Following the efforts of some figures of the National awakening of Bulgaria ( the most notable among them being Neofit Rilski and Ivan Bogorov ), there had been many attempts to codify a standard Bulgarian language ; however, there was much argument surrounding the choice of norms.

Still the attacks provoked efforts to define biodefense and biosecurity, where more limited definitions of biosafety had focused on unintentional or accidental impacts of agricultural and medical technologies.

Stephen Cook asserts that the prophetic efforts of this book can be summed up in this passage " I have been the Lord your God ever since the land of Egypt ; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior " () Hosea's job was to speak these words during a time when that had been essentially forgotten.

In Taverne's case, he had been fighting efforts by the Lincoln Constituency Labour Party to deselect him largely over his support for British membership of the European Communities.

The three Slavic allies ( Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro ) had laid out extensive plans to coordinate their war efforts, in continuation of their secret prewar settlements and under close Russian supervision.

These interventions were meant to put an end to democratic liberalization efforts and uprisings that had the potential to compromise Soviet hegemony inside the Eastern bloc, which was considered by the Soviets to be an essential defensive and strategic buffer in case hostilities with NATO were to break out.

Previous political resistance to privatization had stalled liberalization efforts.

By 1982, the perceived passivity of the FARC, together with the relative success of the government's efforts against the M-19 and ELN, enabled the administration of the Liberal Party's Julio César Turbay ( 1978 – 1982 ) to lift a state-of-siege decree that had been in effect, on and off, for most of the previous 30 years.

He died after commanding the Prussian army's efforts to construct a cordon sanitaire to contain the great cholera outbreak in 1831 ( the first time cholera had appeared in Europe, causing a continent-wide panic ).

Thus, by 1939, both Church ( 1934 ) and Turing ( 1939 ), neither having knowledge of the other's efforts, had individually proposed that their " formal systems " should be definitions of " effective calculability "; neither framed their statements as theses.