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The terms below should not be considered exact, but merely an attempt to pin down the general meaning of the concept.
An attempt to depict the cosmology of the Puranas, and Mount Meru, provenance and exact date unknown
Archaeological investigations in 2009 attempt to identify the exact location of Ampthill | Ampthill Castle
The exact reason why Mao Zedong refused to reinstate the presidency was unclear, however it is now known that Mao did not want his political struggle with Liu Shaoqi to be remembered as his attempt to claim the title of the presidency for himself.
However, arts writer Judith Hill points out that these statues make no attempt at an exact likeness of the figures they portray, instead, they communicate the public stature of their subjects and, indeed, the public role of memorial statues through their proportions and scale.
The compilation of the Varronian chronology was an attempt to determine an exact year-by-year timeline of Roman history up to his time.
user who wishes to find a group with adult content must therefore either know the exact name of the group, or attempt to find it by using a search engine or one of several online adult group directories.
But, medical examiners also attempt to determine the time of death, the exact cause of death, and what, if anything, preceded the death, such as a struggle.
Brock, owner of the second largest of the trading companies, constantly vies to destroy Struan's company and reputation in an attempt both to exact revenge on Struan and to become the new " Tai-Pan " of Chinese trade.
Although Morgagni was the first to understand and to demonstrate the absolute necessity of basing diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment on an exact and comprehensive knowledge of anatomical conditions, he made no attempt ( like that of the Vienna school sixty years later ) to exalt pathological anatomy into a science disconnected from clinical medicine and remote from practical experience with the scalpel, his precision, his exhaustiveness, and his freedom from bias are his essentially modern or scientific qualities ; his scholarship and high consideration for classical and foreign work, his sense of practical ends ( or his common sense ), and the breadth of his intellectual horizon prove him to have lived before medical science had become largely technical or mechanical.
She subsequently dedicates herself to pursuing Yossarian, and ambushes him several times throughout the remainder of the novel in an attempt to exact revenge for Nately's death by stabbing him.
The Lady joins a deadly dueling competition in an attempt to exact revenge for her father's death.
The vehicle's attempt ends when it comes to a stop ( depending on the exact level of skill the trial is aimed at, any stopping may end the attempt, or a few seconds may be allowed ).
There is debate on Bernard's exact motivations, as like many he may have been disappointed that the People's Crusade devoted so much time and resources to attacking the Jews of Western Europe while contributing almost nothing to the attempt to retake the Holy Land itself, the result being that Bernard was urging the knights to maintain focus on the goal of protecting Christian interests in the Holy Land.
I do not think it necessary to attempt an exact definition of the expression as used in the statute other than to say that the words must be construed in accordance with the common understanding of them.
By the middle of the century, an attempt to be objective was made in poetry by the group of writers known as the Parnassians -- which included Leconte de Lisle, Théodore de Banville, Catulle Mendès, Sully-Prudhomme, François Coppée, José María de Heredia and ( early in his career ) Paul Verlaine -- who ( using Théophile Gautier's notion of art for art's sake and the pursuit of the beautiful ) strove for exact and faultless workmanship, and selected exotic and classical subjects which they treated with a rigidity of form and an emotional detachment ( elements of which echo the philosophical work of Arthur Schopenhauer whose aesthetic theories would also have an influence on the symbolists ).
One of Ettelbruck's main squares is named Patton Square, and is located at the exact spot where the German offensive into Luxembourg's Alzette Valley was stopped, ending its attempt to reoccupy the country as a whole.
Through painstaking surveillance, conversations with bank employees and a deliberately bungled pickpocketing attempt, Pierce deduces that Mr. Trent's key is kept at his mansion but is still unable to learn the exact location.
They differ widely, depending on their purpose, on how close they stay to the conventional letter correspondences of Ancient Greek – based transcription systems, and to what degree they attempt either an exact letter-by-letter transliteration or rather a phonetically based transcription.
Another sub-plot in the firm focuses on Pee Wee's attempt to exact revenge for the Tommy and Billy's " Cherry Forever " practical joke in the first movie in which Pee Wee was abandoned in the Everglades running naked along a deserted road only to be " pulled over " by Officer Jarvis and his partner during an otherwise lonely and uneventful patrol.
An attempt to be objective was made in poetry by the group of writers known as the Parnassians — which included Leconte de Lisle, Théodore de Banville, Catulle Mendès, Sully-Prudhomme, François Coppée, José María de Heredia and ( early in his career ) Paul Verlaine — who ( using Théophile Gautier's notion of art for art's sake and the pursuit of the beautiful ) strove for exact and faultless workmanship, and selected exotic and classical subjects which they treated with a rigidity of form and an emotional detachment ( elements of which echo the philosophical work of Arthur Schopenhauer whose aesthetic theories would also have an influence on the symbolists ).
Misch was then tortured in an attempt to extract information regarding Hitler's exact fate.
Brock, owner of the second largest of the trading companies, constantly vies to destroy Struan's company and reputation in an attempt to both exact revenge on Struan and become the new " Tai-Pan " of Chinese trade.

attempt and revenge
Juno, enraged that her attempt at revenge had been frustrated, appealed to Oceanus that the two might never meet his waters, thus providing a poetic explanation for their circumpolar positions.
" This second case usually involves the town bully and mischief maker Bugs Meany, leader of a gang who call themselves the Tigers, who, after being foiled, will attempt revenge in the third mystery.
In a final atavistic attempt at revenge, the government orders a nuclear strike by a single aircraft from a local Air Force base.
On 18 January 1871, the victorious Germans proclaimed the king of Prussia, Wilhelm I, emperor of Germany in the very Hall of Mirrors of the castle, in an attempt to take revenge for the conquests of Louis XIV two centuries earlier.
It is thought to be Shakespeare's first tragedy, and is often seen as his attempt to emulate the violent and bloody revenge plays of his contemporaries, which were extremely popular with audiences throughout the sixteenth century.
Michael also fights Pony Sugrue at the pub ; getting his just revenge for Pony's attempt to get him fired by clubbing him on the head and pouring whiskey all over him to make him appear drunken and incompetent.
The third theory suggests that " The Company ", of which he was a member, had taken revenge on his earlier purges and taxation imposed upon them, in an attempt to raise money for the war with Carthage.
' During the Middle Ages, most would not regard an insult or injury as settled until it was avenged, or, at the least, paid for — hence, the extensive Anglo-Saxon system of wergild ( literally, " man-price ") payments, which placed a certain monetary value upon certain acts of violence in an attempt to limit the spiral of revenge by codifying the responsibility of a malefactor.
Ennis ' run ends with " Rake at the Gates of Hell ", a story which finally brings together the racism storyline, with riots in Mile End, echoing the real-life Brixton and Broadwater Farm riots in London, the revenge attempt of the First of the Fallen, started in " Dangerous Habits ", and the end of John's relationship with Kit Ryan.
Pete secretly learned that Eileen and Mike had set the fire in an attempt to frame him for arson, and he plotted a slow and satisfying revenge.
Most harmfully to the company, forced-out employees, especially those whose advanced skills have made them attractive to other companies and gained them immediate respect, may have few reservations about speaking frankly when answering questions about why they changed employers ; they may even make affirmative efforts to " badmouth " their former employer in an attempt at venting or revenge.
Jordanes ascribes her hatred to another cause: he says that Illus had infused jealous suspicions into Zeno's mind which had led Zenoan attempt on her life, and that her knowledge of these things stimulated her to revenge.
The plot is based in an alternate reality where Larcen Tyler did not die in 1920 as stated in Eternal Champions, and now seeks revenge on the mafia for their attempt on his life.
Like Chicago Syndicate, its plot is based in an alternate reality, this time one where Shadow Yamoto did not die in 1993, and instead went on to form a team that sets out to take down the Black Orchid group in revenge for their attempt on Shadow's life.
Seeking revenge against the X-Men after Jean ( as Phoenix ) had driven him insane, Mastermind used his powers of illusion to convince Scott and the others that Madelyne was Phoenix incarnate — a cosmic threat — in an attempt to have the team kill an innocent.
Vladimir Voronin on 19 February 2010 told journalists that the questioning of his son is an attempt of revenge against his family by the current authorities.
Pentangeli reluctantly meets with his former adversaries, who try to kill him ; Pentangeli deduces that Michael was behind the attempt on his life, and swears revenge.
Khyron, who has never been defeated before, vows revenge, and thus begins his fanatical hatred for the Micronians that would drive him to repeated attempt to destroy the SDF-1, regardless of his superiors ' order to leave it intact.
Hope allies herself with Callisto, and in revenge for Xena's attempt to kill her as a baby, she murders Xena's son, Solan.
They may also denounce witnesses as dishonest, critique law enforcement as corrupt in an attempt to portray innocence or seek an element of revenge in their last moments ( Olsson 2004 ).
Another watershed moment is when Tommy is escaping the bombing, he stumbles into a cathedral where it is the funeral of the alderman's son he murdered, where Tommy is identified as the killer and gang members attempt to shoot him in revenge.
They attempt to get revenge by telepathically contacting Jean about Emma's and Cyclops ' psychic affair.

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