When Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov took it over in 1957 from Georgi Zaroubin, he made a determined effort to change this idea.

Another weakness -- far more irritating than his manner of speaking, which he made only token effort to change -- was his devotion to that old horse of Tolley's.

Attribution of recent climate change is the effort to scientifically ascertain mechanisms responsible for recent changes observed in the Earth's climate.

Because the GWP of a greenhouse gas depends directly on its infrared spectrum, the use of infrared spectroscopy to study greenhouse gases is centrally important in the effort to understand the impact of human activities on global climate change.

Despite his all-out effort to reduce the public-sector deficit, the overall ratio of fiscal deficit to the GDP in 1990 showed little change from that in 1989.

However, whereas in Quake, the only option was to change the color of the player's uniform unless third party modifications were used, now the game comes with a selection of three different player models: a male marine, a female marine, and a male cyborg ; choice of player model also affects the speech effects the player's character will make, such as exhaling in effort while jumping or groaning when injured.

9 ), there is an immediate intensive effort to change " all reports and records, newspapers, books, pamphlets, films, sound-tracks and photographs " and make them all record a war with Eastasia rather than one with Eurasia.

Posters were used to influence public opinion about what to eat and what occupations to take, and to change the attitude of support towards the war effort.

" A similar change occurred in Germany, with women choosing " Frau " instead of " Fräulein " in an effort to disassociate marital status from title.

Campaign finance reform is the common term for the political effort in the United States to change the involvement of money in politics, primarily in political campaigns.

Moyers reported on the Common Cause effort to change ALEC's status.

Each voter is faced with a tiny probability that his vote will change the result of the elections, while gathering the relevant information necessary for a well-informed voting decision requires substantial time and effort.

The fat acceptance movement ( also known as the size acceptance, fat liberation, fat activism, or fat power movement ) is an effort to change societal attitudes towards fat people.

Bolivia led a diplomatic effort to do so beginning in March 2009, but eighteen countries out of a total of 184, those 18 being listed as followed ( chronologically: the United States, Sweden, United Kingdom, Latvia, Japan, Canada, France, Germany, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Italy, Mexico, Russian Federation, Malaysia, Singapore, and Ukraine ) objected to the change before the January 2011 deadline.

However, as regulatory change began to appear in the 1976-79 period, including the phasing in of the loss of collective ratemaking authority, most of the major railroads shifted away from their effort to maintain the historic regulatory system, and came to support greater freedom for rail pricing, both as to higher and lower rail rates.

The Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration was created as part of the Clear Skies Initiative in February 2002 by George W. Bush, as a Cabinet-level effort to coordinate climate change science and technology research.

* In late 2010, Hilton Worldwide announced a name change of the Hilton Hotels brand to Hilton Hotels & Resorts along with a new logo design as part of a rebranding effort for the flagship brand.

McGuinn, Clark and Hillman's second release was to have been a full group effort entitled " City ", but a combination of Clark's unreliability and his dissatisfaction with their musical direction ( mostly regarding Ron and Howard Albert's production ) resulted in the billing change on their next LP " City " to " Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman, featuring Gene Clark ".

More inflammatory was the effort to change the original film rating from an R to PG-13.

The end of the Cold War resulted in a change in emphasis for the operations of the service, assuming responsibility for the investigation of all Irish republican activity within Britain and increasing the effort countering other forms of terrorism, particularly in more recent years the more widespread threat of Islamic extremism.

Some effort was made to rename the town to Brackmann, and indeed, some postmarks came out that way, but other town interests eventually prevailed against a town name change.

An effort was made in 1987 to change the ordinance to allow supervised daincing which was successful.

Another effort attempted to change the name to Uvadalia.

Initially educated to be a minister, Rogers was displeased with the way television addressed children and made an effort to change this when he began to write for and perform on local Pittsburgh-area shows dedicated to youth.

Many of them, in increasing panic, came running with water in their hats in a ludicrous effort.

The dweller at p is last to hear about a new cure, the slowest to announce to his neighbors his urgent distresses, the one who goes the farthest to trade, and the one with the greatest difficulty of all in putting over an idea or getting people to join him in a cooperative effort.

Now this concern for the freedom of other peoples is the intellectual and spiritual cement which has allied us with more than forty other nations in a common defense effort.

In his effort to stir the public from its lethargy, Steele goes so far as to list Catholic atrocities of the sort to be expected in the event of a Stuart Restoration, and, with rousing rhetoric, he asserts that the only preservation from these `` Terrours '' is to be found in the laws he has so tediously cited.

but the possibility of this effort is bound up with that development of historical thought which is the greatest achievement of our civilization in the last two centuries, and it is utterly impossible to people in whom this development has not taken place.

The only response we can think of is the humble one that at least we aren't playing the marimba with our shoes in the United Nations, but perhaps the heavy domes in the house of delegates can improve on this feeble effort.

It has not been any great mental effort on my part to keep up with this mechanization which has brought about new ways of dialing.

Therefore, he decided he was unfair to the young man and should make an effort to understand and sympathize with his point of view.

We ran east for about half a mile before we turned back to the road, panting from the effort and soaked with sweat.

In several significant cases, such as India, a decade of concentrated effort can launch these countries into a stage in which they can carry forward their own economic and social progress with little or no government-to-government assistance.

This same preoccupation with missiles at the expense of aircraft has resulted in our half-hearted effort to develop nuclear propulsion for aircraft.

If, for some reason such as economy, we are not going to develop aircraft nuclear propulsion with a sense of national urgency, then we should turn our effort to developing jet engines with a thrust-to-weight ratio of 12 or 15 to one.

he must improvise continuously with no apparent effort.

Old Mr. Pocket's frantic response to life imprisonment with a useless, social-climbing wife is to `` put his two hands into his disturbed hair '' and `` make an extraordinary effort to lift himself up by it '', whereas Joe Gargery endures the shrewish onslaughts of Mrs. Joe by apologetically drawing `` the back of his hand across and across his nose ''.

In an over-all ASW concept, dependence on and effort expended for such systems should be limited to those with proven capabilities.

Within each chapter an effort has been made to group together those crystals with similar structures.

Mickey's guts twisted with the effort, but he kept his eye on the weapon.

In an apparent effort to head off such a rival primary slate, Mr. Wagner talked by telephone yesterday with Representative Charles A. Buckley, the Bronx Democratic leader, and with Joseph T. Sharkey, the Brooklyn Democratic leader.

And you'll notice that in both places, there are acres of charming young ladies who with little effort spice up any chow line.

Now Spencer, seeming with effort to shake himself from lethargy, spoke.

He kept close tabs on all phases of the military effort, consulted with governors, and selected generals based on their past success ( as well as their state and party ).

Lincoln provided Grant with more troops and mobilized his party to renew its support of Grant in the war effort.

Possibly, the dismantling of their religious structures was an effort to symbolically undo the changes they believed they caused due to their abuse of their spiritual power, and thus make amends with nature.