This threat was realised when on 6 January 1661, 50 Fifth Monarchists, headed by a wine-cooper named Thomas Venner, made an effort to attain possession of London in the name of " King Jesus.

This first ecumenical council was the first effort to attain consensus in the church through an assembly representing all of Christendom.

Only those who make effort, really attain it, but nonetheless, each soul is capable on its own to do so by gradually reducing its karma.

I do not hesitate to affirm that an effort should now be made to attain this advantage, nor to declare that, according to my judgment, it is in present circumstances practicable ... we ought not to aid the rates, and remove the Income Tax, without giving to the general consumer, and giving him simultaneously, some marked relief in the class of articles of popular consumption ... I for one could not belong to a Government which did not on every occasion seek to enlarge its resources by a wise economy.

To put it differently, the political effort to attain " national unity " through reconciliation of the diverse Patriot factions of all stripes, got in the way of the effort to create an efficient national unitary state, as envisioned by Gogel.

Because of the marabouts far reaching influence in Senegal, politicians made a considerable effort to attain the support from these religious leaders for their personal advancement.

# Achievement: completing a task successfully, typically by effort, courage, or skill ( pursue a standard of excellence ) ( explore alternatives before acting )-Based on the need to attain high-quality results on challenging projects, the belief that outcomes are linked to one's effort rather than chance and the tendency to personally set challenging yet realistic goals.

A meta-analysis has confirmed the assumption that optimism is related to psychological well-being: “ Put simply, optimists emerge from difficult circumstances with less distress than do pessimists .” Furthermore, the correlation appears to be attributable to coping style: “ That is, optimists seem intent on facing problems head-on, taking active and constructive steps to solve their problems ; pessimists are more likely to abandon their effort to attain their goals .”

A skilled athlete can perform in a half-pipe for an extended period of time by pumping to attain extreme speeds with relatively little effort.

However, Jain thinkers rejected this view by opining that, if no continuing soul could be accepted, then even the effort to attain any worldly objective would be useless as the individual acting and the one receiving the consequences would be different.

Blumenbach's concept of Bildungstrieb, formulated in 1789, held that all living organisms " from man down to maggots, and from the cedar to common mould or mucor ," owned an inherent " effort or tendency which, while life continues, is active and operative ; in the first instance to attain the definite form of the species, then to preserve it entire, and, when it is infringed upon, so far as this is possible, to restore it.

In the course of this multifaceted effort to attain optimum efficiency, San Miguel reduced its workforce by more than 16 percent, from a 1989 high of 39, 138 to 32, 832 by 1993.

His journal and letters show how he was led from a sustained effort to attain the morality of the Gospel to a profound spiritual revolution.

Converted believers are expected to " make every effort to live a holy life … Even though Christians may not attain absolute perfection in this life ".

They arose partly as an effort to attain tax privileges.

I also have trust that our anthropological work constitutes an input to the indigenous communities themselves, and to their persistent effort to attain the respect, in the largest sense of the term, that is owed to them within Colombian society.

Sometimes hurls are won by a team effort, but occasionally a single hurler may attain the ball in the town and manage to run all the way to the goal or boundary without being caught by any of the opposition.

In " Endeavors in Psychology ," Henry Murray uses conation to denote each persistent effort ( intention, volition, act of willing ) to attain a specific goal, saying:

Further, in Theravada Buddhism, there are no lands or heavens where a being is guaranteed nirvana ; instead he can attain nirvana within a very short time, though nothing conclusive could be said about the effort required for that.

With his departure, the imprint began to drastically change its editorial direction in an effort to attain the commercial success that largely eluded them.

Despite a music video for " Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy ," the group did not attain the same success as they did with their debut effort.

Social conflict or group conflict occurs when two or more actors oppose each other in social interaction, reciprocally exerting social power in an effort to attain scarce or incompatible goals and prevent the opponent from attaining them.

The navy captain disclosed also that a list of questions found in Miss Gee's purse would, if completed and handed back, have given the Kremlin a complete picture `` of our current anti-submarine effort and would have shown what we are doing in research and development for the future ''.

The effort was sufficiently complete that during the summer of 1973 the Unix kernel for the PDP-11 was rewritten in C. During the 1972 – 73 period there was a need to port to Honeywell 635 and IBM 360 / 370 machines, so Mike Lesk wrote the " portable I / O package " which would become the C " standard I / O " routines.

Goebbels demanded from his audience a commitment to " total war ," the complete mobilization of the German economy and German society for the war effort.

The Janet effort resulted in the standardisation known as the Coloured Book protocols, which provided the first complete X. 25 standard.

OS / 390 was introduced in late 1995 in an effort, led by the late Randy Stelman, to simplify the packaging and ordering for the key, entitled elements needed to complete a fully functional MVS operating system package.

Tracks are highly visible, and in some cases significant effort is expended to keep traffic away through the use of special signaling, level crossings with gate arms or even a complete separation with non-level crossings.

This " inclusive " approach contrasted with the typical modernist effort to resolve and unify all factors in a complete and rigidly structured — and possibly less functional and more simplistic — work of art.

The convention was seen by some of its contemporaries, including featured speaker Mott, as but a single step in the continuing effort by women to gain for themselves a greater proportion of social, civil and moral rights, but it was viewed by others as a revolutionary beginning to the struggle by women for complete equality with men.

Because many people eliminate whole categories of food in an effort to reduce symptoms, a complete review of the patient's diet may be needed to avoid nutritional deficiencies.

There is an ongoing effort to record his complete works, led by Miklos Spanyi on the Swedish record label BIS.

The Red Shoes underwent a complete restoration as the result of a seven-year effort.

The effort to automate map plotting began in the United States in 1969, with the process complete in the 1970s.

It was because Ellsberg held an extremely high-level security clearance and desired to create a further synthesis from this research effort that he was one of very few individuals who had access to the complete set of documents.

Collaborative editorial effort has been investigating the various manuscripts of Metamorphoses, some forty-five complete texts or substantial fragments, all deriving from a Gallic archetype.

By the end of the game, even the Mets fans were cheering Bunning's effort ; he had only reached a three-ball count on two batters, and retired shortstop Charley Smith on a pop-out, and pinch-hitters George Altman and John Stephenson on strikeouts, to complete the perfect game.

In 1986, he estimated the effort to complete Cyc would be 250, 000 rules and 350 man-years of effort.

The rehabilitation effort was nearly complete in August 1927, when Major Millard F. Harmon reported in to take over the job of base commander and commandant of the flying school.

Although Version 6 was released and some effort was made to unify the user interface between WordPerfect and QPW, the effort was far from complete.

The Beemer Times declared the waters works complete in March 1898 but, the effort was dealt a set bank in July on that year when the tank swelled, rivets popped, and the tank tumbling to the ground could be heard throughout Beemer.

In the 19th century, less emphasis was placed on preserving the fortifications for the sake of their architectural or historical value — on the one hand, complete fortifications were restored ( Carcassonne ), on the other hand many structures were demolished in an effort to modernize the cities.

The effort started in 1979 and didn't complete until 1987, and then immediately went into a redesign that lasted until 1994.

The 1971 release " I Am ... I Said " was a Top 5 hit in both the US and UK, and was his most intensely personal effort to date, taking upwards of four months to complete.