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Abiathar was deposed ( the sole historical instance of the deposition of a high priest ) and banished to his home at Anathoth by Solomon, because he took part in the attempt to raise Adonijah to the throne.
He was once more defeated at Kish, and again fled to Elam where he died in exile after one final failed attempt to raise a revolt against Assyria in his homeland, Bit-Yâkin in 700 BC.
The most common HDLs are VHDL and Verilog, although in an attempt to reduce the complexity of designing in HDLs, which have been compared to the equivalent of assembly languages, there are moves to raise the abstraction level through the introduction of alternative languages.
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.
Before 1900, England had none of these except for the civil registration of births, marriages, and burials briefly attempted under the Commonwealth ( 1653 – 1660 ) and an even more short-lived initiative of the same kind in 1694 in connection with the attempt to raise a tax on the occasion of every birth, marriage, and death — paupers excepted.
* March 25 – 27 – Second Battle of Somorrostro ( Third Carlist War ): In a renewed attempt to raise the siege of Bilbao by Don Carlos VII, Republican commander Marshal Francisco Serrano himself arrived with 27, 000 men and 70 cannon.
This was a part of an influential wider attempt to raise the profile of science in the general election of 2010 in the UK.
Grey made a second attempt to raise the subject in 1797, but the House again rebuffed him by a majority of more than 150.
McDevitt's novels frequently raise questions which he does not attempt to answer.
Darius did attempt to restore his once great army after his defeat at the hands of Alexander, but he failed to raise a force comparable to that which had fought at Gaugamela, partly because the defeat had undermined his authority, and also because Alexander ’ s liberal policy, for instance in Babylonia and in Persis, offered an acceptable alternative to Persian domination.
The fake demonstration was created in an attempt by the company to raise money to finish their product, but they could not.
This eccentric aunt agrees to raise him, despite Mr Murdstone's attempt to regain David's custody.
Underwriters, therefore, take many factors into consideration when pricing an IPO, and attempt to reach an offering price that is low enough to stimulate interest in the stock, but high enough to raise an adequate amount of capital for the company.
On his arrival he and Ben Zvi went on a tour of 35 cities in an attempt to raise a pioneer army, Hechalutz, of 10, 000 men to fight on Turkey's side.
In an attempt to reduce the complexity of designing in HDLs, which have been compared to the equivalent of assembly languages, there are moves to raise the abstraction level of the design, a sub-field called high-level synthesis.
In an attempt to raise money, Charles tried to devalue the currency ; Marcel ordered strikes, and the Dauphin was forced to cancel his plans and recall the Estates in February, 1357.
Soon thereafter, he came to talk about his condition to others to attempt to raise awareness about the disease in his community.
After an unsuccessful attempt in 2005 to convert Highwood to a home rule city, Highwood achieved home rule status in 2007, facilitating the town's abilities to raise funds and pass ordinances.
In an attempt to raise funds to combat a $ 960, 000 budget deficit for 2010, mayor Dempsey has solicited donations to the city ’ s general fund from tax-exempt organizations like churches, schools and a hospital, in order to pay for services like fire protection, streetlights and roads.
Some groups on the fringes of the London postal district lobby to be excluded or included in an attempt to decrease their insurance premiums ( see SE2 ) or raise the prestige of their business ( see IG1 ).
The boy varied the monotony of his studies by pranks which revealed his unbalanced character, including an attempt to raise spirits with the aid of Dr Faust's Höllenzwang.
In 1650, the Royalist general James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, moored his ship, the Herderinnan, in the Scapa Flow-in preparation for his attempt to raise a rebellion in Scotland which would end in failure and rout at the Battle of Carbisdale.
For each attempt the scientists raise a group of clones.
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.
If blood pressure decreases, the heart beats faster in an attempt to raise it.

attempt and funds
The last attempt was in 2000, when the project was rejected by the Constitutional Court, because it allocated funds from the national budget, which, under the Chilean Constitution, is a privilege of the President.
The final attempt of the Hoover Administration to rescue the economy occurred in 1932 with the passage of the Emergency Relief and Construction Act, which authorized funds for public works programs and the creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation ( RFC ).
He continued in his attempt to garner funds for his crusade by sending envoys to King John of England and King Philip of France.
It was reported that the £ 1, 000 cost of the commission had been supplied by the Prime Minister out of Treasury funds in an attempt to secure the support of Pitt's brother Thomas in Parliament.
Carpentier's attempt at the heavyweight Championship of the world came on July 2, 1921, again in Jersey City, when he faced Jack Dempsey in front of boxing's first million dollar gate ( equivalent to approximately $ in today's funds ).
INC was subsequently plagued by dissociation of many of its constituent groups from the INC umbrella, a cutoff of funds from its international backers ( including the United States ), and continued pressure from Iraqi intelligence services especially after a failed 1995 coup attempt.
While the Electra was being repaired Earhart and Putnam secured additional funds and prepared for a second attempt.
Index funds are open-end funds that attempt to replicate an index, such as the S & P 500, and therefore do not allow the manager to actively choose securities to buy.
Near the end, in a desperate attempt to raise the funds his company needed to survive, John DeLorean was filmed appearing to accept money to take part in drug trafficking, but was subsequently acquitted of charges brought against him on the basis of entrapment.
The alleged drug trafficking was supposedly an attempt to raise funds for his struggling company, which declared bankruptcy that same year.
It charged Al-Arian with: 1 ) conspiracy to commit racketeering ; 2 ) conspiracy to murder or maim persons outside the U. S .; 3 ) conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization ( the PIJ ); 4 ) conspiracy to make and receive contributions of funds, goods, and services for the benefit of Specially Designated Terrorists ( the PIJ ); 5 ) use of the mail or any facility in interstate or foreign commerce to promote unlawful activity ; 6 ) providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization ; 7 ) money laundering ; 8 ) attempt to procure naturalization unlawfully ; and 9 ) obstruction of justice.
Often it involves the trusted individual embezzling only a small proportion or fraction of the total of the funds or resources he / she receives or controls ; in an attempt to minimize the risk of the detection of the misallocation of the funds or resouces.
He cut health care costs in an attempt to balance the budget, and borrowed funds from the state's K-12 education and low income programs.
Recent research conducted by East Carolina University, Greenville and Pitt County historians has uncovered documentation noting that before the Civil War, the North Carolina Legislature had appropriated funds to construct dams and locks on the Tar River in an attempt to facilitate almost year round navigation for the farm products and naval stores shipping plus passenger boats which were travelling between Tarboro, through Greenville to Washington.
When no one else was around to observe, a key Time Tunnel scientist, young physicist Dr. Anthony Newman ( James Darren ), turns the machine on and sends himself back in time in an attempt to prove that the Time Tunnel project funds were not wasted.
Darling authorised the Bank of England to lend Northern Rock funds to cover its liabilities and provided an unqualified taxpayers ’ guarantee of the deposits of savers in Northern Rock in an attempt to stop the run.
An attempt to raise funds for irrigation failed in 1914, as a bond measure was rejected by Washington voters.
His next-to-last attempt to garner the interest — and funds — he needed to commercialize the physics was a meeting with the Department of the Navy.
" Labor's party president, Carmen Lawrence, blamed the unexpected severity of the defeat on an effective Coalition " scare campaign " focused on Latham's limited economic management experience, and the alleged threat of a rise in interest rates under Labor, which was not effectively countered, reportedly in an attempt by Tim Gartrell to conserve funds for later in the campaign ( where, in previous years, Labor had been outspent by the Liberals ).
That is, an act which would otherwise be perfectly legal ( such as moving funds from one bank account to another ) could be grounds for a tax evasion conviction ( possibly an attempt to evade " payment "), provided the other two elements are also met.

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