There he remained for about twelve years, during which time he made repeated but unsuccessful attempts to escape.

It also involved Britain's repeated attempts to impose a puppet government in Kabul.

The marcistas fought among themselves almost ceaselessly and also had to struggle against Flores's repeated attempts from exile to overthrow the government.

Throughout the war, repeated attempts were made to improve communications between the many partisan groups operating within Albania.

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 ".

Kale, lettuce, and other herbs were successfully introduced, but repeated attempts to cultivate wheat or clover failed throughout Greenland, limiting the ability to raise European livestock.

After repeated failed attempts at financial reform, Louis XVI was persuaded to convene the Estates-General, a representative body of the country made up of three estates: the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners.

In Europe, repeated French attempts to overwhelm Hanover failed.

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

Despite repeated attempts by family members and others to have it expunged, his conviction has never been overturned.

After repeated failures in Allied bombing attempts to hit the factory, a team of French Resistance fighters and SOE agents distracted the German guards with a game of soccer while part of their team entered the plant and destroyed machinery.

Brown met with a campaign of resistance from white Southerners, and for decades the federal courts attempted to enforce Brown's mandate against repeated attempts at circumvention.

During the 1760s and 1770s, relations between the Thirteen Colonies and Britain became increasingly strained, primarily because of opposition to Parliament's repeated attempts to tax American colonists without their consent.

Unable to break Lee's line of defense after repeated attempts, Grant flanked Lee to the southeast east again at North Anna, a battle that lasted three days.

Clay and his Whig allies failed in repeated attempts to continue the Second Bank of the United States, which Jackson denounced as a monopoly and from which he abruptly removed all government deposits.

There have been repeated attempts to attribute the name to a real material.

Then, in 1992, Justice John Toohey ran out of patience with Alan Skyring and Patrick Cusack's repeated attempts to obtain a re-hearing on their argument that the Commonwealth did not have the power to issue paper money.

Mercy's forces made repeated attempts to cross the Parma River in June, but it was not until late in that month that they were able to cross the river and approach the city of Parma, where the allied forces, now under the command of French marshals de Broglie and Coigny, were entrenched.

Massachusetts militia made repeated attempts to capture the Capital Port Royal, Acadia, but it required a major naval expedition authorized by Queen Anne to achieve the Conquest of Acadia in 1710.

* September 6 – NATO air strikes continue, after repeated attempts at a solution with the Serbs fail.

Wearing a wetsuit and using a climbing device that enabled him to ascend the I-beams on the building's side, Goodwin battled repeated attempts by the Chicago Fire Department to knock him off.

A major theme in Amadeus is Mozart's repeated attempts to win over the aristocratic " public " with increasingly brilliant compositions, which are always frustrated either by Salieri or by the aristocracy's own inability to appreciate Mozart's genius.

Notably after Aqaba's capture, he refused repeated bribery attempts by the Turks ( though he happily pocketed their money ) and remained loyal to the Revolt.

Unfortunately for the Byzantine emperor, Conrad died in 1152, and despite repeated attempts, Manuel could not reach an agreement with his successor, Frederick I Barbarossa.

Thus they hold that even as small a mark as a kotzo shel yod ( קוצו של יוד ), the serif of the Hebrew letter yod ( י ), the smallest letter, or decorative markings, or repeated words, were put there by God to teach scores of lessons.

Divine places her in the car and drives distractedly around Baltimore experiencing bizarre situations, such as repeated visits by the Mother Mary ( Margie Skidmore )-during which Divine exclaims, " Oh Mary ... teach me to be Divine ".

She informs Sayaka that she's reinstated the Etiquette Club in order to teach her humility and modesty, and should a cowardly act be repeated, there would be consequences.

Even before it opened, opponents of City Academies and of the Emmanuel Schools Foundation, including the prominent British scientist and atheist Richard Dawkins, claimed that the Academy would teach creationism in science lessons ; this allegation was published in the national press and repeated for a few years.

The duo visited shopping centres around the region and met the public as part of the 2006 Look North Sofa Tour, this was repeated in 2009.

Matt and his father, the late Matt Guokas, Sr., were the first father-son duo to both win NBA championships as players ; this feat has since been repeated by Rick Barry ( with the 1975 NBA champion Golden State Warriors ) and Brent Barry ( with the 2005 and 2007 NBA champions San Antonio Spurs ) and by Bill Walton ( with the 1977 NBA champion Portland Trail Blazers and 1986 NBA champion Boston Celtics ) and Luke Walton ( with the 2009 NBA champion and 2010 NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers ).

Despite their fighting, the relationship between the duo progresses over time — even in the face of repeated attacks by opposing vampires — until Kouhei becomes determined to protect Hazuki from the vampire servants of her family, who are determined to retrieve her by whatever means necessary.

Perhaps present writers hypnotically cling to the older order because they consider it useful and reliable through repeated testings over the decades.

This is a very useful property in many situations, as it means that an operation can be repeated or retried as often as necessary without causing unintended effects.

In complex analysis, it is natural to define differentiation via holomorphic functions, which have a number of useful properties, such as repeated differentiability, expressability as power series, and satisfying the Cauchy integral formula.

This is useful for compression, since it tends to be easy to compress a string that has runs of repeated characters by techniques such as move-to-front transform and run-length encoding.

Taylor agreed with Jefferson that the institution was an evil, but took issue with Jefferson's repeated references to the specific cruelties of slavery, arguing that " slaves are docile, useful and happy, if they are well managed ," and that " the individual is restrained by his property in the slave, and susceptible of humanity.

Pyridoxine, which is only useful for the neurological symptoms and does not decrease hepatic toxicity, is given at a dose of 25 mg / kg ; this can be repeated up to a maximum total of 15 to 30 g daily if symptoms do not improve.

Pyridoxine, which is only useful for the neurological symptoms and does not decrease hepatic toxicity, is given at a dose of 25 mg / kg ; this can be repeated up to a maximum total of 15 to 30 g daily if symptoms do not improve.

For data areas such as stack and heap, where custom code or useful data can be loaded, more than one state can be attacked by using NOP slides for code or repeated copies of data.

There is even a 4 step routine ( repeated 4 times in a circular progression, returning to start ) useful for confined spaces ( Zhu Tian Cai ).

In combinatorial mathematics, a block design is a set together with a family of subsets ( repeated subsets are allowed at times ) whose members are chosen to satisfy some set of properties that are deemed useful for a particular application.

2005 ). Learning about a managed system is only useful in cases where management decisions are repeated ( Rout et al.

As therapies are supported by proven effectiveness that can be repeated in multiple studies, they are useful, but the clinician may also consider that the best treatments for patients can only be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

For songs, it is more useful to refer to the lyrics of the song to indicate where to resume rehearsal ( except of course in songs where the lyrics consist of a single word or phrase repeated dozens of times ).