And the stiffly regal look of them, she saw grimly, lacked the quaver of age which, thwarting the efforts of her amazing will, ran through her spoken words like a thin ragged string.

The 20th century saw a remarkable expansion and evolution of critical theory, following on earlier Marxist Theory efforts to locate individuals within larger structural frameworks of ideology and action.

In addition, they saw the efforts of evangelist Billy Graham, who worked with non-evangelical denominations, such as the Roman Catholics ( which they claimed to be heretical ), as a mistake.

The days of the French Revolution and Republic saw many efforts to sweep away various trappings of the ancien régime ; some of these were more successful than others.

The 18th century saw a new dynasty, the Bourbons, which directed considerable efforts towards the renewal of state institutions, with some success, finishing in a successful involvement in the American War of Independence.

The Taft Administration saw the huge Honduran debt, over $ 120 miilion, as a contributing factor to this instability and began efforts to refinance the largely British debt with provisions for a United States customs receivership or some similar arrangement.

The later 18th century saw some success, owing to the efforts of the SSPCK missionaries and to the disruption of traditional society.

" He was a very strong Christian, and saw his efforts almost as a continuation of the crusades.

While Red Army generals saw evidence that Hitler would shift efforts south, Stalin considered this to be a flanking campaign in efforts to take Moscow.

The efforts began in earnest again during the Renaissance, which saw a revival of the study of ancient Greek texts.

The lower river saw the development of many oil refineries and chemical plants, leading to a degradation of the water quality, which in turn led to on-going efforts to restore the quality of the river.

The latter part of his reign saw a further disintegration of the Empire despite his best efforts.

The Age of Reason presents common deistic arguments ; for example, it highlights what Paine saw as corruption of the Christian Church and criticizes its efforts to acquire political power.

The IWW was condemned by politicians and the press, who saw them as a threat to the market systems as well as an effort to monopolize labor at a time when efforts to monopolize industries were being fought as anti-market.

Some National Socialist education officials viewed him as a rival, while others saw his efforts as comical.

Pius VI's body was embalmed, but was not buried until 30 January 1800 after Napoleon saw political advantage to burying the deceased Pope in efforts to bring the Catholic Church back into France.

James at first attempted to resist William, but saw that his efforts would prove futile.

After many decades of work both in British society and in Parliament, the group saw their efforts rewarded with the final passage of the Slave Trade Act in 1807, banning the trade throughout the British Empire and, after many further years of campaigning, the total emancipation of British slaves with the passing of the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833.

At about the same time, Jonathan Seybold ( John W's son ) introduced Paul Brainerd to Apple, where he learned of Apple's laser printer efforts and saw the potential for a new program using the Mac's GUI to produce PostScript output for the new printer.

The rise of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919 saw an increase in support for monarchism, however efforts by Hungarian monarchists failed to bring back a royal head of state, and the monarchists settled for a regent, Admiral Miklós Horthy, to represent the monarchy until it could be restored.

MINSY saw major shipbuilding efforts during World War I. MINSY holds a shipbuilding speed record for a destroyer that still stands, launching the in just 17½ days in May – June 1918.

Slowly, efforts are being made to bring back this economic prosperity that the region once saw, and so far has been a success in Olcott.

The Roman period also possibly saw some drainage efforts, including the Car Dyke along the western edge of the Fenland between Peterborough and Lincolnshire, but most canals were constructed for transportation.

He made major efforts to promote its Partnership for Peace Program, which the Clinton administration saw as a way to link NATO with the new Eastern European democracies, including Russia, and as a compromise between the wishes of many of the Eastern European countries to become full NATO members and Russia's determined opposition.

During the governorship of Montagu Norman, which lasted from 1920 to 1944, the Bank made deliberate efforts to move away from commercial banking and become a central bank.

Another feature of NDC rule carried over from the PNDC era is faithfulness to what a leading scholar of Africa has called " one of the most successful neoclassical economic reform efforts supported by the IMF and the World Bank.

The Mayor of Kabul Muhammad Yunus Nawandish has brought many municipal reform efforts by the U. S. Agency for International Development ’ s “ Kabul City Initiative ” project, the World Bank, Japanese Government JICA and other International Donors to build municipal capacity, improve service delivery and infrastructure, and increase municipal revenue for a cleaner and greener Kabul.

In 2003, the World Bank released more than $ 100 million dollars in poverty reduction aid in response to Madagascar's efforts to stop corruption.

Reform efforts spurred by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and World Bank helped restore some credibility to Paraguay ’ s banking industry.

Israel expelled thousands of Egyptians from Sinai, and commenced efforts at large scale Israeli settlement in the peninsula, concurrently with similar settlement in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and Golan Heights.

The efforts to renew the Bank's charter put the institution at the center of the general election of 1832, in which BUS president Nicholas Biddle and pro-Bank National Republicans clashed with the " hard-money " Andrew Jackson administration and eastern banking interests in the Bank War.

The two sides will cooperate in the context of the multilateral peace efforts in promoting a Development Program for the region, including the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, to be initiated by the G7 countries.

The town of Austell is named for General Alfred Austell ( 1814 – 1881 ), founder of the Atlanta National Bank ( later Wachovia ), in recognition of his efforts to bring major railways to the South.

The service was later renamed Discovery 40, in reference to its 40 column screen format, as well as to distinguish it from another Telecom service, Discovery 80. The Viatel system had a very rapid take up in its first year due to the efforts of GEC Manager Terry Crews and his pioneering work on home banking for the Commonwealth Bank.

" By Wednesday, May 16, 2007, The New York Times, reported that " after six weeks of fighting efforts to oust him as president ... Wolfowitz began today to negotiate the terms of his possible resignation, in return for the bank dropping or softening the charge that he had engaged in misconduct ..." After expressions from the Bush administration that it " fully " supported Wolfowitz as World Bank president and its urging a " fair hearing " for him, President Bush expressed " regret " at Wolfowitz's impending resignation.

Inspired by the literary life of the Left Bank and by Monnier ’ s efforts to promote innovative writing, Beach dreamed of starting a branch of Monnier ’ s book shop in New York that would offer contemporary French works to American readers.

The origins of the Toronto-Dominion Bank lie in the efforts of a group of businessmen in the Province of Canada West ( as Ontario was formerly called between 1840 and 1867 ), involved in the buying, milling and marketing of grain.

Later, in 1833, Bank of Nova Scotia acquired The Union Bank of Prince Edward Island, although most of the bank's expansion efforts in the century took the form of branch openings.

In 2010 Waters came under investigation for ethics violations and was accused by a House panel of at least one ethics violation related to her efforts to help OneUnited Bank, where her husband had been a director and in which he had stock holdings, receive federal aid.

Regulatory authorities do not consistently close markets, yet as seen in economic liberalization efforts by states and various institutions ( International Monetary Fund and World Bank ) in Latin America, "... financial liberalization and privatization coincided with democratization ".

As part of the efforts to fight Palestinian terrorism, in June 2002, Israel began construction of the West Bank Fence along the Green Line border.

Again efforts were made to rejuvenate the competition in 1991 by State Bank of Saurashtra.

Thornburgh also served as a consultant to the United Nations, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank on efforts to battle fraud and corruption.

Following the collapse of the Union Bank of Maryland, Johnson obstructed efforts to obtain a fair and objective accounting of the bank's assets in order to maintain his personal fortune.

In response to the World Bank's CTE, the industry made a number of attempts to discredit the report, especially through the public relations efforts of the International Tobacco Growers ' Association ( ITGA ) and by employing non-World Bank economists to release their own analyses.

One of these efforts to create an internationally comparable measure of governance and an example of an external assessment is the Worldwide Governance Indicators project, developed by members of the World Bank and the World Bank Institute.