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On 8 August 1356, the eldest son of King Edward III of England, crowned as the Prince of Wales but now known as Edward, the Black Prince, began a great chevauchée, conducting many scorched earth raids northwards from the English base in Aquitaine, in an effort to bolster his troops in central France, as well as to raid and ravage the countryside.
" Opinion shifted even more in favour of the Republicans in 1917 – 18 with the Conscription Crisis, an attempt by Britain to impose conscription on Ireland to bolster its flagging war effort.
This caused the mobilization of all movie studios ( including their cartoon divisions ) to produce propaganda material to bolster public confidence and encourage support for the war effort.
The area is especially rich in coral and other marine biodiversity and contains a number of underwater wrecks, some accidental shipwrecks, others vessels deliberately sunk in an effort to provide a habitat for marine organisms and bolster the local dive tourism industry.
He soon came to terms with the event, however, conceiving of it as a long-anticipated bourgeois-democratic revolution which would ultimately bolster flagging popular support for the war effort and he returned home to Russia.
To bolster the effort south of Fort King, the Army sent the Eighth Infantry Regiment to Florida.
Congressman Herger supports legislation to bolster free and fair trade in an effort to support his constituency.
Additionally, as part of its overall effort to make vehicles more sustainable, Ford is making the material inside the door – known as the bolster – in part from kenaf.
In an effort to bolster ratings and improve the respectability of WBBM's newscasts, the station announced in July 2010 that Kurtis and Jacobson would permanently anchor the 6 p. m. newscast on WBBM beginning on September 1.
In an effort to bolster the offensive capabilities of the Stalingrad Front, over 420 tanks, 111, 000 soldiers and 556 artillery guns were shipped over the Volga River in a period of three weeks.
During the summer of 1936, the New York state organization of LNPL transformed itself into an independent political party in an effort to bolster Roosevelt's electoral chances in the state by providing him access on a second ballot line.
However, President Franklin D. Roosevelt decided in favor of the China bases because he was impatient to bomb Japan and wished to bolster the Chinese war effort.
In an effort to bolster ratings, TBS secured the cable syndication rights to The Big Bang Theory at a reported $ 2 million per episode to serve as a lead-in to Conan three nights a week.
However, President Franklin D. Roosevelt decided in favor of the China bases because he was impatient to bomb Japan and wished to bolster the Chinese war effort.
( ABC moved Laverne & Shirley in an effort to bolster ratings on other nights.
In an effort to bolster attendance at the coliseum, which had been operating at a loss for two years, SMG took over management of the coliseum in late 2001, agreeing to construct a large freestanding marquee visible from Interstate 526 as part of the management contract.
In a desperate effort to bolster the low enrollment base, Randolph-Macon Academy adopted the United States Air Force Junior ROTC program.

effort and southern
In 1942, Hitler shifted his primary goal from an immediate victory in the East, to the more long-term goal of securing the southern Soviet Union to conquer oil fields vital to a long-term German war effort.
The Soviets repulsed the important German strategic southern campaign and, although 2. 5 million Soviet casualties were suffered in that effort, it permitted the Soviets to take the offensive for most of the rest of the war on the Eastern Front.
While the southern kingdom made no serious effort to militarily regain power over the north, there was a long-lasting boundary dispute, fighting over which lasted during the reigns of several kings on both sides before being finally settled.
A number of southern states, including Arkansas, Louisiana, Virginia, and Florida, subsequently passed interposition and nullification laws in an effort to prevent integration of their schools.
* Slovenia contributed to IFOR ( logistical support ) and is very engaged in the SFOR effort, providing VIP support helicopter and light transport aircraft missions and use of an airbase in southern Slovenia ;
A second such effort, META II, was begun in Argentina in 1990 to search the southern sky.
The Union strategy, of a comprehensive effort to bring about a speedy victory for the Union, designed by President Lincoln and Grant, consisted of combined military Union offensives, attacking the Confederacy's armies, railroads, and economic infrastructure, to keep the Confederate armies from mobilizing reinforcements within southern interior lines.
It was not until Prince Henry the Navigator began in 1418 to encourage the penetration of the torrid zone in the effort to reach India by circumnavigating Africa that European exploration of the southern hemisphere began.
The moderate effort to compromise with Johnson had failed, and a political fight broke out between the Republicans ( both Radical and moderate ) on one side, and on the other side, Johnson and his allies in the Democratic party in the North, and the conservative groupings ( which used different names ) in each southern state.
The popularity of the missions also stemmed largely from Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona and the subsequent efforts of Charles Fletcher Lummis, William Randolph Hearst, and other members of the " Landmarks Club of Southern California " to restore three of the southern missions in the early 20th century ( San Juan Capistrano, San Diego de Alcalá, and San Fernando ; the Pala Asistencia was also restored by this effort ).
After the failed effort to found Antigua del Darién in 1506 by Alonso de Ojeda and the subsequent unsuccessful founding of San Sebastián de Urabá in 1517 by Diego de Nicuesa, the southern Caribbean coast became unattractive to colonizers.
Prince Gaius, in an effort to rid Rome of Marcellus, banishes Marcellus to the command of the Roman garrison at Minoa, a port city in southern Palestine.
Ultimately, it is revealed that Tom Dugan was working undercover for the FBI, part of an effort to prevent the assassination of a prominent southern civil rights preacher.
This effort was assisted by an Ohio law that allowed fugitive slaves to apply for a writ of habeas corpus, which protected them from extradition back to the southern states from which they had escaped.
In an effort to defend the railroad, the Battle of Honey Hill was one of the last battles won by southern forces in late 1864, shortly before General William Sherman attacked South Carolina after his " March to the Sea " in Georgia.
* Clay pots and vats discovered at a sprawling cave system in southern Armenia near the border with Iran shows signs of an organized effort to press and distill grapes during the Copper Age.
He created Sekong province to honor the southern minority for their support on the war effort.
Following the fall of Rostov, Hitler split German forces operating in the southern extremity of the southern Russian SFSR in an effort to simultaneously capture the city of Stalingrad and the Caucasus oil fields.
August A. Meier, a young professor at a black southern college, Tougaloo College, and a former student of Commager, corresponded with Morison and Commager during this period of time in an effort to get them to change their textbook and reported that Morison " just didn't get it " and didn't understand the negative effects that the Sambo stereotype was having on young impressionable students.
When the Germans occupied France in June 1940, Blum made no effort to leave the country, despite the extreme danger he was in as a Jew and a socialist leader ; instead of fleeing the country, he escaped to southern France, but the French ordered his arrest.
John Sewell led the effort to preserve Trefann Court, that covered the southern section of the original Cabbagetown.
In an effort to prevent a repeat of the fatalities on the southern section of the road.
* Late September-10, 000 soldiers are deployed along the border with Nepal in an effort to combat the flow of militants and criminals who are thought to use southern Nepal as a base for operations in India.

effort and Republican
However, about 12, 000 Volunteers, led by Eoin MacNeill and dominated by the secret Irish Republican Brotherhood ( IRB ), refused to join the British war effort and kept the name " Irish Volunteers ".
For instance, in the lead-up to the 1964 Republican National Convention, the press referred to supporters of the insurgent Arizona conservative Barry Goldwater as " Cactus Jacobins " in their effort to unseat the moderate East Coast branch of the party ( see Rockefeller Republican ).
As a result of that effort, the Puerto Rico Legislature approved a law regulating presidential primaries in 1979, the first of which was held in 1980, with George H. W. Bush winning the Republican primary and President Carter beating Senator Edward " Ted " Kennedy in a hard-fought Democratic primary.
He made such an effort to root out corruption and " machine politics " that Republican boss Thomas Collier Platt forced him on McKinley as a running mate in the 1900 election, against the wishes of McKinley's manager, Senator Mark Hanna.
* July 26 – In Los Angeles, Ronald Reagan announces his choice of liberal U. S. Senator Richard Schweiker as his vice presidential running mate, in an effort to woo moderate Republican delegates away from President Gerald Ford.
The political climate – dubbed the Era of Good Feelings – favored the development of national programs and institutions, including a protective tariff, internal improvements and the revival of a Bank of the United States Southern and western support for the Bank, led by Republican nationalists John C. Calhoun of South Carolina and Henry Clay of Kentucky was decisive in the successful chartering effort.
Nevertheless, their effort failed badly against the Republican ticket of McKinley and Roosevelt.
In his book With No Apologies, former conservative Republican Senator Barry Goldwater lambasted the discussion group by suggesting it was " a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power: political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical ... the creation of a worldwide economic power superior to the political governments of the nation-states involved.
The effort failed ; another Republican, Thomas B. Reed of Maine, was elected.
In 1951 he organized the New Jersey effort to secure the 1952 Republican nomination for Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Wyden voted against the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, a Republican effort to restrict the number of class actions suits against businesses and the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, a bipartisan change in bankruptcy law designed to make it more difficult to file for bankruptcy and to make those in bankruptcy pay more of their debts.
* Example: The " Support Our Troops " campaign created by the Republican party during the War on Terror implies that opposing the war effort detracts support away from the individual soldiers fighting the war.
With the Republicans in control of both chambers in Congress, Tom DeLay, along with Gingrich and conservative activist Grover Norquist, helped start the K Street Project, an effort to advance Republican ideals.
, He served in the Eisenhower Administration, filling posts including director of the Mutual Security Administration ( foreign aid ) and Special Assistant to the President for Disarmament .< Ref > During this period he held cabinet rank and led a quixotic effort ( perhaps covertly encouraged by Eisenhower, who had reservations about Richard Nixon's maturity for the presidency ) to " dump Nixon " at the 1956 Republican Convention.
Minton led the effort to counter Hearst and delivered a speech criticizing his support of the Republican Party.
* 2003 California recall: Republican Darrell Issa, the person behind the effort of recall election of Gray Davis, quickly and without warning dropped out of the gubernatorial race.
GOPAC was founded by Delaware Governor Pierre S. du Pont, IV in 1978 in " an effort to build a farm team of Republican officeholders who could then run for congress or higher state offices later ".
The movement took off when wealthy U. S. Representative Darrell Issa, a Republican representing San Diego, California, announced on May 6 that he would use his personal money to push the effort.
Camejo's alienation of the San Francisco local resulted in neither an endorsement nor any effort expended towards organizing for him in subsequent elections and he was unable to beat the Republican in San Francisco in 2003 and 2004.
In an effort to appease the powerful McClellan, Ford moved to replace Davis with Len E. Blaylock of Perry County, the mild-mannered Republican gubernatorial nominee in the 1972 campaign against Dale Bumpers.
The flash point for this division was Cummins ' effort in 1908 to join Dolliver in the Senate by challenging legendary Senator William B. Allison in the Republican primary.
In 1972, Ralph Yarborough made a comeback effort to win the Democratic nomination for U. S. Senator as a challenger of Republican Senator John Tower, who as a young man had once circulated Ralph Yarborough stickers.

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