The Absalon, according to The New York Times report, " was deployed in the Gulf of Aden September as part of an international effort to curb piracy ," part of Combined Task Force 150.

In an effort to curb the Dhofar insurgency, Sultan Qaboos expanded and re-equipped the armed forces and granted amnesty to all surrendering rebels while vigorously prosecuting the war in Dhofar.

* A final possibility surrounds Felipe III, who passed a law in an effort to curb rowdy drunken behavior, particularly among soldiers and sailors.

* The Chinese Ministry of War under the Ming Dynasty orders ships having more than one mast sailing along the southeast coast to be seized, investigated, and destroyed ; this in an effort to curb piracy and limit private commercial trade abroad.

A concerted effort was made to curb gambling on games which was leaving the validity of results in doubt.

The International Ski Federation ( FIS ) recognized freestyle as a sport in 1979 and brought in new regulations regarding certification of athletes and jump techniques in an effort to curb the dangerous elements of the competitions.

The International Ski Federation ( FIS ) recognized freestyle as a sport in 1979 and brought in new regulations regarding certification of athletes and jump techniques in an effort to curb the dangerous elements of the competitions.

In an effort to curb such a phenomenon, mobile police patrol cameras have been deployed and speed radars installed on major roadways and city intersections.

A 25-cent admission was charged in an effort to curb the large crowds, but to no avail.

Some argue that such bans are out of safety concerns, while others consider them an effort to curb dissent.

The unifying theme is an effort to curb the impact of corporate power on American democracy.

Annual deer hunts have been held since 1940 in an effort to curb white tail deer population.

In an effort to curb this, many jurisdictions require that warranties not be voided by outside servicing ; for example, see the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act in the United States.

In an effort to curb this flow of support the British sent an expedition to Tauranga, a major harbour in the Bay of Plenty, some 100 km east of the conflict in the Waikato.

This was done in an effort to curb complaints about aircraft noise.

It is often suggested that offering Cromwell the Crown was an effort to curb his power: as a King he would be obliged to honour agreements such as Magna Carta, but under the arrangement he had designed he had no such restraints.

The electronic variety are sometimes coupled with bark detection circuits in an effort to curb barking behavior.

As the leading opponent of the New Deal in the Senate from 1939 to 1953, he led the successful effort by the conservative coalition to curb the power of labor unions, and was a major proponent of the foreign policy of non-interventionism.

After Ender leaves for Battle School, his family moves to North Carolina in an effort to curb his emerging sociopathy.

Especially after 1954, when the Democrats regained control of Congress, the Wilson-Eisenhower effort to curb defense expenditures provoked growing criticism.

Wessel soon impressed Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Party's Gauleiter, and in January 1928, during a period when the Berlin city authorities had banned the SA in an effort to curb political street violence, Wessel was sent on a trip to Vienna, to study Nazi organisational and tactical methods.

Critics also argue that the company does not make enough effort to curb abuses by individual distributors, though Herbalife has consistently denied such allegations.

In 1982, then Prime Minister and Finance Minister Robert Muldoon imposed a simultaneous freeze on wages, prices and interest rates in an effort to curb inflation, despite public resistance.

To avoid annoying the neighbors, dog owners should make every effort to curb excessive barking through training.

The afflicted person's eyes may look, as well as feel abnormally " wide " or " open ", rarely blinking ; this sometimes contributes to clinicians ' misconception that a manic patient is under the influence of a stimulant drug when the patient is either not on any mind-altering substances, or is in fact under the influence of a depressant drug in a misguided effort to stave off destructive and unwanted manic impulses.

In an effort to turn the tide on reported increases in methadone-related adverse events, the DEA announced in a recent advisory that manufacturers of methadone hydrochloride 40-mg tablets have agreed to restrict their distribution of that particular formulation of the drug.

In an effort to reduce drug use in America, for the past 50 years the US government together with the United Nations have been waging a war on drugs.

In order to help them, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a new political approach to the economically challenged " banlieues " of France in 2008 saying that, " 500 million euros will be spent on the improvement of French public transportation ( an effort to make the ghetto less isolated ), an increase in police forces in the " banlieues ," a prioritization of creating new jobs for these underprivileged youth, a systematic crackdown on drug trafficking in the " banlieues ", and the establishment of new schools in disadvantaged areas for students who show particular promise.

Critics of the effort claim that it creates hardship primarily for the coca growers, many of whom are poor and have no viable alternative way to make a living, causes environmental problems, that it is not effective in reducing the supply of cocaine, in part because cultivation can move to other areas, and that any social harm created by drug abuse is only made worse by the war on drugs.

In 2011, Branson served on the Global Commission on Drug Policy with former political and cultural leaders of Latin America and elsewhere, " in a bid to boost the effort to achieve more humane and rational drug laws.

At the same time, police in Prince George's County conducted multiple raids in an effort to shut down drug activity in the county.

On July 1, 1997, he began a controversial " spray paint shame campaign ” in an effort to stop drug use.

For example, in a recent law enforcement effort, Operation Pipe Dreams, the 18 companies targeted accounted for more than a quarter of a billion dollars in retail drug paraphernalia sales annually.

There is no effort made to collect the debt, either, as most people take a drug that instills a sense of pride and work-ethic, which would disallow defaulting on the debt.

Since 1997 there has been a strong effort to make it a drug free event.

Although she is eventually able to break her drug habit after much effort, she has already contracted HIV from a needle containing infected blood and dies from complications from AIDS in 1986 at the age of 26.

In an effort to reduce the burden on manufacturers applying for orphan drug status, the FDA and EMA agreed in late 2007 to utilize a common application process for both agencies.

In 2009, The Guardian reported that, following a promise to assist British users of the drug " Vioxx " ( produced by Merck ) with legal fees in their attempt to claim damages, Lewis changed his mind within hours of an " expensive lobbying effort " by Merck.

The board has directed that around 40 % of its effort should be devoted to combating drug trafficking, 25 % to tackling organised immigration crime, around 10 % to fraud, 15 % on other organised crime and the remaining 10 % on supporting other law enforcement agencies.

: As the Second World War cuts off drug supplies, the company starts producing fine chemicals, dedicating all its facilities to the war effort.

This effort was a precursor to the Ohio Lawyers Assistance Program that has provided drug and alcohol dependency and mental illness treatment services to thousands of Ohio judges, lawyers, and law students since 1991.

The alleged purpose was to prove the Nicaraguan Sandinistas ' involvement in the drug trade and to build support for the Contra war effort.

An enormous marketing effort capitalized on these publications ; Vioxx was the most heavily advertised prescription drug in 2000, and Celebrex the seventh, according to IMS Health.

The agency provides services primarily to those attempting to relocate an employer and to those requiring the issuing of a financial provision due to in the first case lack of employment, of an allowance to assist with the living costs and expenditure intrinsic to the effort to achieve employment, or in all other cases the provision of social-security benefit as the result of a person without an income from employment due to illness-incapacity including illicit drug addiction.

Three security cameras were installed in the park in April 2008 in an effort to combat certain types of criminal activity, namely vandalism, drug dealing, and public sex.

He first came to public notice as president of the Telegraph Hill Dwellers, where he co-led the effort to save the Colombo building ( it was going to be made a Chinatown branch of City College ) and prevent a Rite-Aid drug store from moving into the Pagoda Theater.

SSDP is focused on reforming drug policy in the United States and internationally, while empowering young people to get involved in the political process through this necessary effort.