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In the fall of 1991, in an attempt to win back viewers and attract a younger audience, the show's format and setting underwent a dramatic overhaul.
In an attempt to reach out to females, Infocom also produced Plundered Hearts, which required the gamer to take the part of a heroine in a swashbuckling adventure on the high seas, and which required the heroine to use more feminine tactics to win the game, since hacking-and-slashing was not a very ladylike way to behave.
A last-ditch attempt, known as " Operation Bodenplatte ", to win air superiority on 1 January 1945 failed.
Many Irish members of the British Army were interned there until the end of the war and at one stage they were visited by the Irish republican leader Roger Casement in an attempt to win recruits for the forthcoming Irish rebellion.
He stated in an internal e-mail message that reporters should not " artificially hold < nowiki ></ nowiki > George W. Bush and John Kerry ' equally ' accountable " to the public interest, and that complaints from Bush supporters were an attempt to " get away with ... renewed efforts to win the election by destroying Senator Kerry.
This might be done, for example, when the first player believes that an opponent has an inferior hand and will not call a direct bet, but that he may attempt to bluff, allowing the first player to win more money than he would by betting straightforwardly.
Some politicians have practised race-baiting in an attempt to win votes.
After Gerry Mullins recovered Dallas ' onside kick attempt, the Steelers then tried to run out the clock on the next drive with four straight running plays, but the Cowboys defense stopped them on fourth down at their 39-yard line, giving Dallas one more chance to win.
The Steelers joined the Cowboys in their attempt to be the first team to ever win a third Super Bowl, after wins in Super Bowl IX and Super Bowl X. Pittsburgh quarterback Terry Bradshaw had the best season of his career, completing 207 of 368 passes for 2, 915 yards and 28 touchdowns, with 20 interceptions.
The Dolphins, aided by a pass interference call, responded with a drive to the Chargers ' 31-yard line, but kicker Pete Stoyanovich's potential game-winning 48-yard field goal attempt sailed far to the right of the goal posts and sealed San Diego's stirring win.
The Patriots had no timeouts left for their ensuing drive, which led Fox color commentator John Madden to suggest that the Patriots should run out the clock and attempt to win in overtime.
Republicans believed Marshall's constitution was an attempt to win over Debs ' supporters, who had a strong presence in Indiana.
Willkie centered his presidential campaign around three major themes: the alleged inefficiency and corruption of Roosevelt's New Deal programs, Roosevelt's attempt to win an unprecedented third term as President, and the government's alleged lack of military preparedness.
" FDR's attempt to break the " two-term " tradition had also earned criticism from some conservative Democrats ( such as John Nance Garner ), and Willkie hoped to win their support.
In a last-ditch attempt to win the war, Skynet sends a cybernetic assassin called a Terminator back through time to murder Connor's mother Sarah before he is born, thereby preventing Connor's existence and the success of his future rebellion.
But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.
They threatened to vote against the Budget unless they had their way ( an attempt by Lloyd George to win their support by amending whisky duties was abandoned as the Cabinet felt that this was recasting the Budget too much ).
The general election in February 1974, an attempt to win a public mandate to face down the miners ' wage demands, resulted in a hung parliament.
But after yet another failed attempt to win her love, Frollo betrays Esmeralda by handing her to the troops and watches while she is being hanged.
If the champion had made multiple unsuccessful attempts to win the prize, one additional key was removed for each attempt.
In an attempt to win viewers on Friday night, the TGIF programming block was created.
Despite British backing for the military action, the intervention was widely seen as an attempt to win back influence in Spain, which had been lost to the British under Napoleon.
His approach, which he termed sabermetrics in reference to the Society for American Baseball Research ( SABR ), scientifically analyzes and studies baseball, often through the use of statistical data, in an attempt to determine why teams win and lose.
Previously, in an attempt to win Thomas ' friendship, Flagg had shown him a secret passage where Thomas could spy on his father.

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Cuban S.S.R.: Whatever may have been the setbacks resulting from the unsuccessful attempt of the Cuban rebels to establish a beachhead on the Castro-held mainland last week, there was at least one positive benefit, and that was the clear-cut revelation to the whole world of the complete conversion of Cuba into a Russian-dominated military base.
As a last attempt to reach international success, he released the LP titled Baris Mancho ( 1976 ), a strange transcription of his name, mostly with George Hayes Orchestra under CBS Records label, in Europe and South Africa.
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.
In a last attempt to protect it, Constantine attacked the enemy sword raised ; however he was defeated and killed.
Despite this huge show of force, the battle will be short-lived, for Ezekiel, Daniel, and Revelation all say that this last desperate attempt to destroy the people and the city of God will end in disaster: " I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed.
The last event in Cotton Mather's involvement with witchcraft was his attempt to cure Mercy Short and Margaret Rule.
DEC's last major attempt to find a space in the rapidly changing market was the DEC Alpha 64-bit RISC processor architecture.
The prohibitive cost of maintaining the colony, France's last outpost on the continent, was another factor that compelled observers to doubt that the French would attempt to hold on to the territory.
Tzara's last attempt at a Dadaist drama was his " ironic tragedy " Handkerchief of Clouds in 1924.
As the Starchild's transformation of Jupiter occurs ( it becomes engulfed with monoliths ), the crew of the Leonov make good their exit, and Bowman gives one last message via HAL, warning the human race not to attempt future contact with Europa, where the new mini-sun has melted the oceans and ushered in a new era of evolution.
The story of Donald Campbell's last attempt at the water speed record on Coniston Water was told in the BBC television film Across the Lake in 1988, with Anthony Hopkins as Donald.
In 1858, the last attempt was made by Johann Gustav Stickel, Jena University: " Das Etruskische (...) als Semitische Sprache erwiesen ".
A couple of days later, Galois made his second and last attempt to enter the Polytechnique, and failed yet again.
The Federal Reserve System was designed as an attempt to prevent or minimize the occurrence of bank runs, and possibly act as a lender of last resort when a bank run does occur.
On 3 July 1844, the last two confirmed specimens were killed on Eldey, off the coast of Iceland, which also eliminated the last known breeding attempt.
He took part in the religious colloquy of Regensburg in 1541 where Elector Joachim II made a last attempt to bridge the differences between the Romanists and evangelicals and with his nephew requested Luther's cooperation.
In addition to this, the final defeat of the uprising led by the Welsh prince, Owain Glyndŵr, in 1412 by Prince Henry ( who later became Henry V ) represents the last major armed attempt by the Welsh to throw off English rule.
It was the last attempt of the Ottoman Navy to leave the Dardanelles, thereby leaving the Greeks dominant in the Aegean.
* 1781 – In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey.
Nazarbayev, however, continued to support him, persistently urging other republic leaders to sign the revised Union Treaty, which Gorbachev had put forward in a last attempt to hold the Soviet Union together.
While the Emperor received detailed reports from Sugiyama and Nagano about the operations in Southeast Asia and the attack of Pearl Harbor, Prime Minister Konoe made one last desperate attempt to avoid war.
Rines undertook one last expedition to look for remains of the monster, using sonar and underwater camera in an attempt to find a carcass.
In a mid-Manhattan battle, detailed in Ultimate Fantastic Four # 23, he and dozens of other zombie-heroes attempt to consume the last batch of humans.

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