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.

He realized now he had more than half hoped he wouldn't find him -- that Muller would not be here, that the attempt would be scheduled for somewhere beyond Hoag's control.

On 9 / 11, the sucicide hijackers did not make any attempt to contact ground control to inform anyone about their hijackings, nor engage in any dialogue or negotiations at all.

# The hijacking or control takeover of an aircraft must be a result of unlawful use of violence or an attempt to use violence ;

After a failed health care reform attempt, Republicans won control of Congress in 1994, for the first time in forty years.

In typical game play, players attempt to propel the ball toward their opponents ' goal through individual control of the ball, such as by dribbling, passing the ball to a team-mate, and by taking shots at the goal, which is guarded by the opposing goalkeeper.

A subsequent attempt by the government to re-establish control over the rebellious islands by force failed, and presently the African Union is brokering negotiations to effect a reconciliation.

Kings continued to attempt to control either the direct leadership of the church, or indirectly through political means for centuries.

In an attempt to maintain his tenuous control over his crew, Kidd relented and kept the prize.

In an attempt to keep control of the process and prevent the Assembly from convening, Louis XVI ordered the closure of the Salle des États where the Assembly met, making an excuse that the carpenters needed to prepare the hall for a royal speech in two days.

The financial rand system was instituted on 1 September 1985 in an attempt to control the large outflows of capital from South Africa at that time.

A further attempt in daylight succeeded in breaking into the position but intense fire from three sides resulted in control being lost as the commanding officer was killed, and four of his senior officers were wounded or went missing.

* Escapes: In a general sense, an escape is accomplished by maneuvering out of danger or from an inferior position ; for example when a grappler who is underneath side control moves to guard or gets back to a neutral standing position, or when a grappler is able to maneuver out of a submission attempt and back to a position where he or she is no longer in immediate danger of being submitted.

Instead, the Reichsgut was increasingly pawned to local dukes, sometimes to raise money for the Empire, but more frequently to reward faithful duty or as an attempt to establish control over the dukes.

" In an attempt to keep control of the process and prevent the Assembly from convening, Louis XVI ordered the closure of the Salle des États where the Assembly met.

He brought down a mini-budget in an attempt to slow consumption, control inflation and reduce the deficit, but it triggered the worst credit squeeze since 1945 — the economy was driven into recession, the stock market slumped, private investment, housing activity and motor vehicle sales fell, unemployment rose to almost 2 percent ( the highest rate since the Depression ) and several major companies collapsed.

During the 16th century the Portuguese were able to establish permanent markets up the Zambezi River in an attempt to gain political and military control of Mutapa.

The Conservative majority proved too small for effective control over his backbenchers, particularly after the United Kingdom's forced exit from the Exchange Rate Mechanism ( ERM ) on " Black Wednesday ", 16 September 1992, just five months into the new parliament, when billions of pounds were spent in a futile attempt to defend the currency's value.

* 1661 – English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London, England.

And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary of the grave unnaturalness involved in any attempt to exert too much control over essentially uncontrollable forces.

The Druze had grown increasingly resentful of the favoring of the Maronites by Bashir II, and were backed by the Ottoman Empire and the wali of Damascus in an attempt to gain greater control over Lebanon ; the Maronites were backed by the French, out of both economic and political expediency.

In response to this problem, the kings tried to centralize power over time ; but they lost control over Spoleto and Benevento definitively in the attempt.

Grimoald managed to regain control over the duchies and deflected the late attempt of the Byzantine emperor Constans II to conquer southern Italy.

There are many modern proponents of rapid composting that attempt to correct some of the perceived problems associated with traditional, slow composting.

When the Justice Society's forced attempt to stop them by sending Hawkman and Captain Marvel against them met with failure and resulted in Superman and Batman briefly infiltrating the White House, Luthor, in an enraged and desperate gambit after Superman's rapid defeats of his plans, used a variant combination of the " super-steroid " Venom ( a chemical associated with the Batman villain Bane ), liquid synthetic Kryptonite, and an Apokoliptian battlesuit to fight Superman directly.

It has been conjectured that his rapid election was an attempt by the Roman clergy to ensure that the Roman emperor could not interfere in the election.

For this reason, ccNUMA may perform poorly when multiple processors attempt to access the same memory area in rapid succession.

Personal rapid transit systems attempt to eliminate these wastes by moving small groups nonstop in automated vehicles on fixed tracks.

In the Star Trek Voyager episode " Blink of an Eye ", during which Voyager is trapped in orbit above a planet experiencing a rapid passage of time, the first attempt shown by the people to contact Voyager was made during the planet's medieval period by a Lord Protector.

The story takes place about 2015 AD, against a background of an overpopulated Earth, whose dysfunctional society is clearly an attempt to extrapolate into the future the rapid social changes taking place in the U. S. during the 1960s.

It took place in April 1870, and proved a failure just as rapid and complete as the attempt of 1866.

Clearing of trees and the permanent cultivation of fragile soils in a tropical environment with little attempt to replace lost nutrients may cause rapid degradation of the fragile soils.

Japan-based F-51Ds were immediately transferred to Korea and pressed into service in an attempt to halt the rapid North Korean advance.

With MacArthur's amphibious flanking move, the North Koreans seemed trapped but Walker's rapid advance northwest towards Inchon and Seoul emphasized speed over maneuver and made no attempt to encircle and destroy the North Koreans after punching through their lines.

For example, in economics and finance, a financial institution might attempt to forecast several possible scenarios for the economy ( e. g. rapid growth, moderate growth, slow growth ) and it might also attempt to forecast financial market returns ( for bonds, stocks and cash ) in each of those scenarios.

As these networks are used by banks to settle accounts with each other, rapid or overnight wire transfer of large amounts of money are commonplace ; while banks have put checks and balances in place, there is the risk that insiders may attempt to use fraudulent or forged documents which claim to request a bank depositor's money be wired to another bank, often an offshore account in some distant foreign country.

A rapid shift to neutralism also occurred in the early 1990s as part of an attempt to expand its readership to recently arrived Chinese immigrants, most of whom left the mainland after the expansion of access to green cards following the Tiananmen Square protest of 1989.

Some training methods advocate putting only slight pressure on the horse, allowing it to gradually become accustomed to a frightening object, while other methods sometimes advocate techniques that are based on the operant conditioning principle of flooding, for example, waving a large blanket on and over a horse tied to a sturdy post so that it cannot escape -- the latter methods often being quicker at first, but also far more dangerous because rapid exposure to frightening stimuli can cause a horse to panic, and, if tied or confined, to risk injury to the animal or handler in an attempt to free itself.

When the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan raised fears that Soviet forces there might move into neighboring Iran, where an anti-Western militant Islamic regime had taken power in early 1979, Carter created a rapid deployment force for Southwest Asia to counter any such attempt in the region.

In 1997 an attempt was made to bring Eamon to the World Wide Web ; however, the project never got beyond a beta version because of the rapid pace at which the web and content distribution was developing.

Boyd then broadened his research in an attempt to understand the German army's rapid successes against France in 1940.

If paraneoplastic pemphigus is diagnosed with pulmonary disease, a powerful cocktail of immune suppressant drugs is sometimes used in an attempt to halt the rapid progression of bronchiolitis obliterans, including methylprednisolone, ciclosporin, azathioprine, and thalidomide.

This reversal of terminology is generally attributed to Leo Fender and the naming of the Fender " Vibroverb " amplifier, which actually used tremolo ( rapid volume changes ) in an attempt to create a vibrato-like ( rapid changes in pitch ) sound.

The conservation of Lark Hill Place, which was done at a time before conservation of historic buildings was popular, represents an important attempt to preserve architectural features at a period of rapid urban development.

This memorandum noted that although the Air Force study was adequate on a case by case basis it was not addressing the more fundamental question of enabling rapid positive identification of reports ; “… the study makes no attempt to solve the more fundamental aspect of the problem which is to determine definitely the nature of the various phenomena which are causing these sightings, or to discover means by which these causes and their visual and electronic effects may be immediately identified.