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attempt and repair
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.
Care should be taken to attempt repair of damaged heart valves rather than replacement.
It is likely that the levels of fluids inside the body will have dropped significantly as it diverts bodily fluids and nutrients in an attempt to repair the pancreas.
In 2000, a plan to restore the Everglades was approved by Congress ; to date, it is the most expensive and comprehensive environmental repair attempt in history.
The motivation for these measures was a desire to repair a perceived injustice, the need of a collaborative base of natives in Spanish Morocco, and an attempt to attract the sympathy of wealthy European Sephardis like the Pereiras of France.
local contractors aided the attempt to repair, and in some cases, even build new houses.
Reforestation is also being encouraged in many countries in an attempt to repair the damage that deforestation has done.
In an attempt to boost morale and to repair his own reputation for being weak, Nicholas announced in the summer of 1915 that he would become the new Commander-in-Chief of the army, in defiance of almost universal advice to the contrary.
However, the law demands that the driver wear it before any attempt to repair the vehicle.
It was once again decided to attempt to repair the station, which was performed by Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh on the Soyuz T-13 mission, in what was in the words of author David S. F. Portree " one of the most impressive feats of in-space repairs in history ".
For instance, it is possible to attempt to " repair " the proof by supposing that a and b have a definite nonzero value to begin with, for instance, at the outset one can suppose that a and b are both equal to one:
Mahler sought counselling from Sigmund Freud, and on the verge of its successful première in Munich, dedicated the Eighth Symphony to Alma in a desperate attempt to repair the breach.
She wants Daniel to return to England and attempt to repair the feud between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz.
They made an attempt to repair the rafts, using what remained of their own clothes as oakum to plug holes, but they lost the rafts to a large wave.
These may attempt to modify or repair the hip joint, in order to allow pain free usage, or may in some cases completely replace it.
Each ship which is suffering from critical damage can attempt to repair itself.
Emergency surgery was performed the next day in an attempt to repair the injury, but the leg broke again.
If the cell doesn't divide correctly, other proteins will attempt to repair it, and if unsuccessful, they will destroy the cell.
* January 22 – Howard Dean gives an interview to Diane Sawyer in an attempt to repair his image following the disappointing loss in Iowa, and to control the damage caused by his post-caucus speech, which was widely criticized and ridiculed as the " I have a scream " speech.
Having lived a fashionably excessive lifestyle, he retired to the countryside ( in nearby Eridge ) in an unsuccessful attempt to repair his health.
Despite his destitution, Jennings made no attempt to repair his fortunes.
The English fleet halted its pursuit when the Flemish shoals were reached ; De With now decided to quickly repair the fleet at sea in the Wielingen basin and then make another attempt at defeating the enemy.
In 2004, Fantino made an attempt to repair relations, primarily by appearing on the cover of fab in a photo which featured him posing in his police uniform with five other models dressed as the Village People standing behind him.
But their efforts have no effect because they attempt the repair by a physical means.
He has a very relaxed approach to life, even to the point of suspending his attempt to repair a lift full of people in order to smoke a roll-up.

attempt and image
When Constantine converted to Christianity the majority of his subjects were still pagans and the Roman Imperial cult of the divinity of the emperor, expressed through the traditional burning of candles and the offering of incense to the emperor ’ s image, was tolerated for a period because it would have been politically dangerous to attempt to suppress it.
The first permanent photoetching was an image produced in 1822 by the French inventor Nicéphore Niépce, but it was destroyed by a later attempt to duplicate it.
At its best, they most accurately reflect the past appropriate to the time period while at their worst they may portray gross inaccuracies in an attempt to portray a certain idealized image.
In 1998, Hyundai began to overhaul its image in an attempt to establish itself as a world-class brand.
The authors say that the failure to attempt to rehabilitate patients may be partly responsible for the negative public image of ECT.
One attempt to construct the Stone – Čech compactification of X is to take the closure of the image of X in
In another attempt to get away from the ' do-wop ' glam image, Thorpe insisted that the trademark vocal harmonies were left off of his composition ' You're the Reason Why '.
In similar fashion, the isolation and examination of the stage image of Cleopatra becomes an attempt to improve the understanding of the theatrical power of her infinite variety and the cultural treatment of that power .” So, as a microcosm, Cleopatra can be understood within a postmodern context, as long as one understands that the purpose for the examination of this microcosm is to further one ’ s own interpretation of the work as a whole.
Gotti maintained a genial public image in an attempt to play down press releases that depicted him as a ruthless mobster.
Comparisons between economics and sociology have resulted in a corresponding term Homo sociologicus ( introduced by German Sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf in 1958 ), to parody the image of human nature given in some sociological models that attempt to limit the social forces that determine individual tastes and social values.
The ka was often represented in Egyptian iconography as a second image of the king, leading earlier works to attempt to translate ka as double.
The focus on the " thing " as " thing " ( an attempt at isolating a single image to reveal its essence ) also mirrors contemporary developments in avant-garde art, especially Cubism.
From the 1920s through the 1950s Westmorland was the site of illegal gaming establishments and many brothels, but these were later destroyed in an attempt to improve the town's image.
Chapter 13 describes how, in desperate attempt to call down rain, the image of Moloch was brought to the center of Carthage, how the arms of the image were moved by the pulling of chains by the priests ( apparently Flaubert's own invention ), and then describes the sacrifices made to Moloch.
TIFF was originally created as an attempt to get desktop scanner vendors of the mid-1980s to agree on a common scanned image file format, rather than have each company promote its own proprietary format.
In an attempt to redefine Meccano's image, the colour scheme was changed again, this time to yellow and black plates, with silver strips and girders.
Although admirable, the attempt to seek public approval failed to make a significant impact and psychologists became more concerned about their public image.
It is generally argued that Christian V's personal courage and affability made him popular among the common people, but his image was marred by his unsuccessful attempt to regain Scania for Denmark in the Scanian War.
* November 10 – The Guiding Light changed its name to Guiding Light, in an attempt to modernize the show's image ( The show's announcer, however, continued to call the series The Guiding Light in his announcements until the early 1980s )
He had been powerfully moved by the image of a young girl braving a mob in an attempt to desegregate schools in Charlotte, N. C., and Partisan Review editor Philip Rahv had suggested he report on what was happening in the American south.
Back in Hollywood, Arthur saw her career deteriorating, and she dyed her hair blonde in an attempt to boost her image and avoid comparison with more successful actress Mary Brian.
In an attempt to create a younger image, Bert Parks, the pageant's famous emcee from 1955 to 1979, was dismissed.
Strode then left the band and, in an attempt to gain some credibility and to lose their bubblegum image, the remaining three members relaunched as Kaja in the UK in 1985.
These algorithms receive as input the red / green / blue values of each pixel of the image and attempt to estimate the reflectances of each point.

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