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But if anything can bring home to Mr. Khrushchev the idea that he will not really get much enjoyment from watching this Braddock-against-the-Indians contest, it will probably be the fact that SEATO forces are ready to attempt it -- plus the fact that Moscow has something to lose from closing off disarmament and other bigger negotiations with Washington.
They would attempt to bring supplies from St. Louis or Prairie Du Chien at `` great expense as well as danger ''.
In February, the people rose again: Alexius IV was imprisoned and executed, and Murzuphlus took the purple as Alexius V. He made some attempt to repair the walls and organise the citizenry, but there had been no opportunity to bring in troops from the provinces and the guards were demoralised by the revolution.
Despite this huge show of force, the battle will be short-lived, for Ezekiel, Daniel, and Revelation all say that this last desperate attempt to destroy the people and the city of God will end in disaster: " I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed.
They play a pivotal role in completion stage practices, where an attempt is made to bring the subtle winds of the body into the central channel, to realise the clear light of bliss and emptiness, and to attain Buddhahood.
These databases attempt to bring the database world and the application-programming world closer together, in particular by ensuring that the database uses the same type system as the application program.
Producers, for example business firms, are hypothesized to be profit-maximizers, meaning that they attempt to produce and supply the amount of goods that will bring them the highest profit.
By the end of the Early Modern period however, and the beginnings of the Enlightenment, many European governments brought in laws prohibiting many superstitious beliefs in an attempt to bring an end to the Witch Hunt ; this would invariably affect the release of grimoires.
For his appearance on the heavily collaborative track " Back on the Block ", a composition by jazz musician Quincy Jones that " attempt to bring together black musical styles from jazz to soul to funk to rap ", Ice-T won a Grammy Award for the Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, an award shared by others who worked on the track including Jones and fellow jazz musician Ray Charles.
" A successful attempt would bring great praise.
An attempt was made to bring two Māori men to teach the skills of dressing and weaving flax, but this failed when it was discovered that weaving was considered women's work and the two men had little knowledge of it.
* 2002 – Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya ; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air-missiles.
He shunned his father's theology and black pride views, accepting whites as fellow worshipers and forging closer ties with mainstream Muslim communities in an attempt to bring the Nation of Islam closer into Sunni Islam.
He was dispatched in an attempt to bring these territories around to the curial side, but without success.
He also implemented many procedural reforms, to make Parliament and the Liberal caucus meetings run more efficiently, significantly expanded the size and role of the Prime Minister's office, and substantially expanded the welfare state, with the establishment of new programmes, and significant improvements in existing ones, with welfare payments to the aged, the young, and the underprivileged greatly expanded in an attempt to bring about a European-style social democracy in Canada.
Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing relied heavily on this provision to stalemate Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac's attempt to bring him back under Gaullist control.
* Northwestern University-led collaboration between personality psychologists worldwide to " attempt to bring information about current personality theory and research to the readers of the World Wide Web "
The second attempt to bring Misery Chastain back to life ( which Annie Wilkes likes ) is almost an example of a comic book death.
Syncretism must not be confused with ecumenism, the attempt to bring closer and eventually reunite different denominations of one religion that have a common origin but were separated by a schism.
A second attempt to bring Sweden back under his control in 1518 was also countered by Sture's victory at Brännkyrka.
Miyamoto has referred to the creation of the Zelda games as an attempt to bring to life a " miniature garden " for players to play with in each game of the series.
Some even bring their bicycles to a complete stop, balanced upright with both feet still on the pedals ( a track stand ), in an attempt to make the other rider take the lead.
* vile was initially derived from an early version of Microemacs in an attempt to bring the Emacs multi-window / multi-buffer editing paradigm to vi users.
This, along with Daugherty's other activities, prompted one congressman, Oscar Keller of Minnesota, to attempt, in vain, to bring impeachment charges against the Attorney General.
* Axis and Allies-( Nova Games, 1981 ) the most successful of Milton Bradley's ( 1984 ) ' GameMaster ' line in an attempt to bring wargaming into the mainstream by appealing to non-wargamers through simplicity and attractive components.

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In spite of her attempt to preserve her balance, she fell, bruising her arm on a naked stone.
I really loved that boy, and, in a feverish attempt to preserve our marriage and to try to revive the wonderful, wonderful person Letch had once been, I took my troubles to Momma, hoping that her earthy advice would help me.
The wife's attempt at control, these psychologists contend, is sometimes merely a pathetic effort to compel her husband to pay as much attention to her as he does to his job.
It was merely an attempt to frighten her.
She couldn't see any reason why Maude would attempt to frighten her.
Besides, there was something hysterical and silly, something almost childish about an attempt to frighten her.
She paused at the kitchen door, caught her breath, told herself firmly that the opium was only an attempt to frighten her and went into the kitchen, where Glendora was eyeing the chickens dismally and Maude was cleaning lamp chimneys.
Again the homely, everyday details of daily living refuted a vicious attempt to frighten her -- or to murder her.
The explanation offered for her conduct is a misguided attempt to save her marriage to a neurotic husband left sterile as a result of an automobile accident.
Agrippina began to support Britannicus in her attempt to make him emperor.
In an attempt to have her return to Constantinople, the conspirators produced pamphlets that mocked and slandered the empress, and left them in her tent.
Elena Lourie ( 1975 ) suggested instead that it was Alfonso's attempt to neutralize the papacy's interest in a disputed succession Aragon had been a fief of the Papacy since 1068 and to fend off Urraca's son from her first marriage, Alfonso VII of Castile, for the Papacy would be bound to press the terms of such a pious testament.
Access to famous persons, too, became more and more restricted ; potential visitors would be forced through numerous different checks before being granted access to the official in question, and as communication became better and information technology more prevalent, it has become all but impossible for a would-be killer to get close enough to the personage at work or in private life to effect an attempt on his or her life, especially given the common use of metal and bomb detectors.
A suicide attempt with sleeping pills two days earlier was denied by her public relations manager.
Jen hides her mastery of martial arts from her teacher, Jade Fox, which leads both to their parting of ways and to Jade Fox's attempt on Jen's life.
Suddenly their child enters the scene and the dynamic changes in an attempt to avoid traumatizing him / her.
" She summed up her driving work ethic, " I can say this: When I attempt anything, I have a passionate determination to overcome every obstacle … And I do my own work with a refusal to accept defeat that might almost be called painful.

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