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attempt and alleviate
The Sydney metropolitan area at the time was marked by increasing strains on state infrastructure and Askin's Government's pro-development stance was largely attributed as an attempt to alleviate these problems.
Many think tanks, however, purposefully attempt to alleviate this problem by selecting members from diverse backgrounds.
There are two motorways in their municipality and a future motorway service: The N-1 Madrid-Irun, The A-620 Vitoria-Altube and its connection with the A-68 Logroño-Bilbao, and as of the end of 2009, the new AP-1 Between Vitoria and Eibar attempt to alleviate the problems caused by congested traffic on the N-1.
Costerton in 1854, in an attempt to alleviate poverty during the agricultural depressions of the 1840s, which followed the cessation of war with France.
Using their mobility and tactical initiative, these units would attempt to alleviate the pressure of enemy armored columns and air strikes on smaller TO units.
Mansfield and Murry were persuaded by their friend Gilbert Cannan to rent a cottage next to his windmill in Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire in 1913, in an attempt to alleviate Mansfield of her ill health.
Oliver has a tendency to use the word ' craziness ' frequently in conversations, usually as an attempt to alleviate tension when he starts blabbering.
In 1920, the manufacture, sale, import and export of alcohol was prohibited by the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in an attempt to alleviate high rates of alcoholism and, especially, political corruption led by saloon-based politicians.
Schacht supported public works programs, most notably the construction of autobahnen ( highways ) to attempt to alleviate unemployment – policies which had been instituted in Germany by von Schleicher's government in late 1932, and had in turn influenced Roosevelt's policies.
Many intentional communities attempt to alleviate social injustices that are being practiced within the area of residence.
Plans are currently underway to attempt to alleviate the traffic congestion with the improvement of bridges and provide more pedestrian social spaces for residents and visitors.
The program diminished during the last years of the Dutch era ( 1940s ) but was revived following Indonesian independence, in an attempt to alleviate the food shortages and weak economic performance during Sukarno's presidency in the two decades following World War II.
His family moved to Colorado partly because of the chronic bronchial problems that he suffered from in Madison, New Jersey around age 5 as an attempt to help alleviate those problems.
In 1936, the Alberta Social Credit Party-led government of the Province of Alberta, Canada, introduced prosperity certificates in an attempt to alleviate the effects of the Great Depression.
The period of pro-peasant moderation exemplified by the New Economic Policy came to an abrupt end in 1928, marked by a return to forced requisitioning in an attempt to alleviate the Grain Crisis of 1928.
In 1970, a concert was held at Thrum Hall in an attempt to alleviate these financial troubles.
In an attempt to alleviate anxiety among the families of other missing airmen, the Federal government announced on 12 October that the relatives of the slain man had been informed of his death.
In an attempt to alleviate traffic along Loop 360 TxDOT has considered turning the road into a toll road, making it a freeway with an overpass or adding Michigan left turns.
When diamonds were discovered in the Vaal River in the 1870s the former Transvaal Government established a settlement on the banks of the river in 1870, in an attempt to control and alleviate land disputes over diamond discoveries further down the Vaal River.
In an attempt to alleviate financial difficulties the station applied to the CRTC for a commercial FM license with the call letters CJSW.
This man, who had learned the main principles of European treatment, received great help from Dr. Livingstone, a friend of Morrison's, who was much interested in this attempt to alleviate the sufferings of the poorer Chinese.
One attempt to alleviate this was made by the executive officer of during the Korean War, when he had a kangaroo-shaped ' weathervane ' made and mounted to the destroyer's mainmast: this became the basis for the red kangaroo symbol fixed to the funnels or superstructure of all RAN vessels.
Subthalamotomy is a type of brain surgery in which the subthalamic nucleus is destroyed in attempt to help alleviate movement disorders often associated with Parkinson ’ s Disease.
According to strain theory, differences in crime rates between races are the result of real differences in behavior, but to be understood as an attempt to alleviate either absolute or relative deprivation and adapt to the existing opportunity structure.

attempt and inevitable
Humans are bound to attempt to live up to them, but failure is inevitable.
A second problem was that not all Unionists opposed Home Rule to the same degree ; some were hardcore anti-Home Rulers who would oppose any attempt at home rule, others thought it inevitable that the Bill would pass and were simply trying to get the best deal possible for Ulster.
Dixie McNeill was appointed as manager in an attempt to avert the increasingly inevitable threat of relegation.
In the course of every attempt to establish or develop free government, a struggle between Special Privilege and Equal Rights is inevitable.
However, all the components and research were destroyed in an attempt to prevent Skynet, but in ( Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines ) Skynet is built anyway without any information or components from the future, implying that it was inevitable.
A small attempt made against it by a Governor of Milan who had obtained a permission from the Pope to have the Roman Mass said in any church which he might happen to attend, was defeated by St. Charles, and his own revisions were intended to do little more than was inevitable in a living rite.
This is a translation of the term the Moties use for any exercise in futility, or any attempt to do, or even think about doing, anything to try to stop the inevitable collapse of their current civilization which is war driven by overpopulation.
The inevitable attempt at repression by colonial authorities began in the fall, with some 1300 people eventually killed by the French and many times more imprisoned or deported as government authority was reasserted.
It resulted in O ' Brien himself becoming actively involved with the Fenian brotherhood, resigning in the mid-1870s, because of what he described in ' Evening Memories ' ( p. 443 – 4 ) as " the gloom of inevitable failure and horrible punishment inseparable from any attempt at separation by force of arms ".
While war with Austria-Hungary seemed inevitable, Nicholas engaged in a personal dialogue with the German Emperor in an attempt to avoid war with Germany.
These tampered records are then used to seek investment in the company's bond or security issues or to make fraudulent loan applications in a final attempt to obtain more money to delay the inevitable collapse of an unprofitable or mismanaged firm.
Whether this attempt was genuine is doubtful, since the pills he took were long expired, and he had access to more effective barbiturates ; additionally, the manner the fire was set and the timing of his taking the pills made his rescue inevitable.
He managed to escape from the Centauri homeworld ( avoiding the inevitable Drakh attempt to place a Keeper on him ), and went to Minbar.
The war with Muscovy ended in December 1408, on terms which made further conflict with the Teutonic Order inevitable, despite Hermann II of Celje's attempt to negotiate a solution.
What had started as an attempt to eliminate an inevitable conflict between the armed forces and the political class, eventually resulted in a bloody conflict.
Sutherland ’ s stated opinions on policy were ( a ) that the UK government ’ s attempt to cap immigration is illegal ( b ) that multiculturalism is both inevitable and desirable: “ It ’ s impossible to consider that the degree of homogeneity which is implied by the other argument can survive because states have to become more open states, in terms of the people who inhabit them ” and also ( c ) thatthe European Union, in my view, should be doing its best to undermine ” any “ sense of our homogeneity and difference from others ”.
The title is a reference to the play The Trojan war will not take place by Jean Giraudoux ( in which characters attempt to prevent what the audience knows is inevitable ).
Then at Spain, he secured his sixth, again in an attempt to delay an almost inevitable eighth race for Senna-a race that would secure his first of three championships.
O ' Keefe was in the unique position of publicly acknowledging Saddam Hussein as a " violent dictator " and " mass-murderer " before he arrived in Saddam controlled Iraq, apparently he did this in an attempt to neutralize the inevitable accusations that the Human Shields were simply pawns of Saddam.
He manages to squelch a premature attempt by resentful underling Sergeant Max ( Patrick O ' Neal ) to reassert his rank and authority, but that only delays the inevitable.
In the Nanchang Uprising He and Zhu led a combined force 24, 000 men and attempted to seize the city of Nanchang, but they were not able to secure it against the inevitable Kuomintang attempt to retake the city.
In any attempt to observe an earlier time, the inevitable noise totally drowns out the signal.
Chris Willman from Los Angeles Times commented: " The first single ' Manic Monday ' represents slumming songwriter Prince's attempt mostly successful save for the inevitable getting down interlude to concoct a modern day Mamas and the Papas hit.
Suddenly teleported to Zeorymer's cockpit, it's revealed that Masaki is the revived, evil, Professor Wakatsuki, reduced to an embryo and reborn to escape an inevitable death, Miku was Himura's wife, who had been cheating on her husband with him, had undergone the same process as she had been caught in the same event, and that Himura was the one to attempt to kill them.

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