Alypius was afterwards commissioned to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem as part of Julian's systematic attempt to reverse the Christianization of the Roman Empire by restoring pagan and, in this case, Jewish practices.

The careers of Ezra and Nehemiah in the 5th century BCE were thus a kind of religious colonisation in reverse, an attempt by one of the many Jewish factions in Babylon to create a self-segregated, ritually pure society inspired by the prophesies of Ezekiel and his followers.

In an attempt to reverse the decline, from 1848 to the early 1870s Macau engaged in the infamous trade of coolies ( slave labourers ) as a transit port, shipping locals from southern China to Cuba, Peru, and other South American ports to work on plantations or in mines.

In 1966, the Ceaușescu regime, in an attempt to boost the country's population, made abortion illegal, and introduced other policies to reverse the very low birth rate and fertility rate.

This attempt to reverse decades of underinvestment in the transport system has resulted in a severe shortage of transport planners.

These attempt to reverse the priapic state by shunting blood from the rigid corpora cavernosa into the corpus spongiosum ( which contains the glans and the urethra ).

Segregationists from outside the area converged on Hoxie in an unsuccessful attempt to reverse the school board decision.

The petition for the election was started by two Pulaski County clergymen in an attempt to reverse Burnside's " moist " status.

This stage is characterised by the body employing physiological mechanisms, including neural, hormonal and bio-chemical mechanisms in an attempt to reverse the condition.

" However, Anya returns in the episode " Doppelgangland ", duping Willow into assisting in a failed magical attempt to recover the necklace which was her power center, lost when Giles destroyed it to reverse the wish granted for Cordelia.

It typically includes an admission of guilt, a promise or resolve not to repeat the offense ; an attempt to make restitution for the wrong, or in some way to reverse the harmful effects of the wrong where possible.

) show a-ζζ-for ζ ; assuming that Attic value was, it may be an attempt to transcribe a dialectal pronunciation ; the reverse cannot be ruled completely, but a-σδ-transcription would have been more likely in this case.

Most teenage pregnancies in the developed world appear to be unplanned. In an attempt to reverse the increasing numbers of teenage pregnancies, governments in many Western countries have instituted sex education programs, the main objective of which is to reduce such pregnancies and STDs.

Unfortunately the City of Dallas at one time restricted the growth of this neighborhood, an attempt to control traffic and crime, to the point where the history and heritage were longer thriving, however many groups and efforts are being made to reverse these trends.

This offensive was a last-ditch attempt by the Germans to reverse the course of the war.

Army doctors attempt to halt and reverse his growth with a formula, but after getting injected with the cure, he grabs the needle and spears one of the doctors with it, killing him on the spot.

Turner rehired much of Trudeau's staff during the final weeks in an attempt to turn the tide, but this did nothing to reverse the Liberals ' sliding poll numbers.

In 1976, with secret funding from the Freedom Association, he posed as a Labour Party moderate and briefly won control of Newham North East Constituency Labour Party, in an eventually unsuccessful attempt to reverse the deselection of the local MP, Reg Prentice.

The motorman stated during his interrogation that he had attempted to slow the train, but the subsequent investigation of the wreck indicated that no attempt to engage the emergency brake had been made and that he had not attempted to reverse the train's motors.

This may take the form of the stronger batsman trying to score an even number of runs on early balls in the over and an odd number on the last ball ; the weaker batsman will attempt the reverse, and the bowler will try to disrupt this pattern.

San Ysidro, along with the rest of South San Diego, was annexed by the city of San Diego in 1957 ; an attempt by residents in 1973 to reverse the decision was unsuccessful.

Sherlock loosened a fitting on one water line inside the experiment, wrapped the loose fitting with an absorbent diaper, and, using a laptop computer on board, turned a pump on the experiment into reverse for about 20 minutes in an attempt to flush out the clog.

Once in the coupling phase, the returning fluid will reverse direction and now rotate in the direction of the impellor and turbine, an effect which will attempt to forward-rotate the stator.

In the context of the " Threeboot " ( Mark Waid ) Legion continuity, it is revealed that in a sort of predestination paradox, Booster's ring and force field belt were stolen by Rip Hunter and Daniel in an attempt to reverse a " Time Stealer's " plan intended to erase Booster Gold from the continuity by damaging the Time Sphere held in the museum.

Competitors attempt to achieve the best time in four disciplines: slalom, giant slalom, Super G, and downhill.

You can attempt the Olympic women's super G and downhill courses.

" " The Great Pretender " is a reality show in which ordinary people attempt to fool a panel of experts in tasks such as piloting an aircraft, downhill skiing or heart surgery.

Beginning in Florence, there was an attempt to revive the dramatic and musical forms of Ancient Greece, through the means of monody, a form of declaimed music over a simple accompaniment ; a more extreme contrast with the preceding polyphonic style would be hard to find ; this was also, at least at the outset, a secular trend.

In an attempt to counterbalance this trend, NGOs have developed to emphasize humanitarian issues, developmental aid and sustainable development.

For example, a chartist may plot past values of stock prices in an attempt to denote a trend from which he or she might infer future stock prices.

The current trend is to include the place names as well as owners / sponsors in an attempt to gain support from the franchised communities.

The trend, however, became for records to be produced, usually with particular background noises, and no other group would attempt a version.

The band adopted a skinhead look as an attempt to gain publicity from what was a newsworthy youth fashion trend but this also added an unwelcome association with football hooliganism.

Kyle acknowledged this trend in the season five ( 2001 ) episode " Cartmanland " when he states that he often gives the speech each week in an attempt to " try and better myself ", and again in the season seven ( 2003 ) episode " Butt Out " where he repeatedly reminds his friends that they continuously allow potentially riotous events to occur, and are only able to defuse the situation by giving such a speech to the gathered townsfolk.

The trend of having a higher incident rate among females encompasses lesbians or bisexual females ; when compared with homosexual or bisexual males, lesbians are more likely to attempt suicide.

In more recent years, the trend has been to attempt to link the tales of King Arthur and his knights with Celtic mythology, usually in highly romanticized, early 20th century reconstructed versions.

The unrest that resulted from the 1830 French July Revolution led to a temporary reversal of that trend, but after the demonstration for civic rights and national unity at the 1832 Hambach Festival, and the abortive attempt at an armed rising in the 1833 Frankfurter Wachensturm, the pressure on representatives of constitutional or democratic ideas was raised through measures such as censorship and bans on public assemblies.

A play on the 1970s trend of large corporations buying up smaller companies is parodied in this film by the attempt of the Engulf and Devour Corporation to take control of a studio ( a thinly veiled reference to Gulf + Western's takeover of Paramount Pictures ).

A group of traditional-minded artists, troubled by this trend, formed the short-lived Association of Country Entertainers, in an attempt to bring back traditional honky-tonk sounds to the forefront.

In 1992, the Institute founded a consulting company, Adam Smith International Ltd, which was " charged with overseeing the overseas work of the institute ... an attempt to capitalise on the growing international trend towards economic liberalization and marketization ".

One recent trend in work visas is that various countries attempt to get special preference for their nationals as part of treaty negotiations.

There has been an exegetical trend during the last several decades to draw endless parallels to text from the ancient Near East and beyond in an attempt to validate the writings in the Book of Mormon and Pearl of Great Price.

The University also planned to have a more rigorous selection procedure regarding potential recipients of honorary degrees, in an attempt to rectify the trend of awarding degrees to celebrities.

In response, there is an emergent trend of English-speaking congregations, along with a more deliberate attempt to reach Hispanic-Americans who do not speak Spanish.

The hat saw a resurgence in popularity in the early 1980s, when it was marketed to both men and women in an attempt to capitalize on a retro fashion trend.

The concept continued the trend of aliens using a monster to try and conquer Earth, and was also the second attempt to try and create an entry in the Godzilla series that took place in Okinawa after the scrapped Godzilla vs. Redmoon.

Ibn al-Muqaffa '’ s translation of Kalīla wa Demna was not a conscious attempt to start a new literary trend ; it was clearly just one of several works of old Sasanian court literature which Ibn al-Muqaffa ' introduced to an exclusive readership within court circles, its function being to illustrate what should or should not be done by those aiming at political and social success.

In response to the demographic trend of longer lifespans and an expanding older market, and to its child-centered image, McDonald's made a conscious decision to attempt to market its food to a more adult audience.

The introduction of the Active Desktop marked Microsoft's attempt to capitalize on the short-lived push technology trend led by PointCast.

The establishment of the Spryfield Mall in the mid-1970s was an attempt to reverse this trend, but it has struggled to fill its floorspace in recent years.

During the Early 20s, African ( and Afro-American ) fashion was sweeping Paris, and this ballet may have been Ballets Suédois ’ attempt to follow the trend.