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effort and curb
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.
* 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.
In an effort to curb drug use and crime, the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program in California designed caps with the DARE logo and Scruff McGruff, as well as county sheriff badges.
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.

effort and insurgency
During its second year-long deployment, which ended on December 14, 2006, V Corps continued to lead coalition forces and made great strides battling a widespread insurgency, conducting a massive rebuilding effort, and paving the way for democracy in Iraq.
Like many classical liberals at the time, including Edward Atkinson, Moorfield Storey, and Grover Cleveland, Sumner opposed the Spanish-American War and the subsequent U. S. effort to quell the insurgency in the Philippines.
These operations ( OPLAN 34-Alpha ) were conducted in an effort to convince that nation to cease its sponsorship of the communist insurgency in South Vietnam.

effort and Sultan
In any effort to modernise or reform the empire the Sultan was always opposed by the powerful military and religious elite who did not want to lose their traditional powers.
An effort to court the Ottoman Sultan began.
The Sultan Abd Al-Malik also died during the battle, but from natural causes ( the effort of riding was too much for him ), and the news was concealed from his troops until total victory had been secured.
In 1898, Haffkine approached Aga Khan III with an offer for Sultan Abdul Hamid II to resettle Jews in Palestine, then a province of the Ottoman Empire: the effort " could be progressively undertaken in the Holy Land ", " the land would be obtained by purchase from the Sultan's subjects ", " the capital was to be provided by wealthier members of the Jewish community ", but the plan was rejected.
Though the Sultan was retained, he made no effort to exercise power independent of the Young Turks and was effectively their puppet.
Though the Young Turks had compelled the Sultan in his capacity as the Caliph to declare a global jihad urging all Muslims to resist Allied encroachment on their lands, the effort was largely unsuccessful.
In an effort to neutralize this threat, the Sultan agreed to hold elections, with the hope of placating and co-opting the nationalists.
According to observers, this action against the Sultan and the ALF was another effort to reduce his influence in the Afar Region.
Taddesse Tamrat explains Sultan Umar's military acts as an effort to consolidate the Muslim territories in the Horn of Africa in much the same way as Emperor Yekuno Amlak was attempting to consolidate the Christian territories in the highlands during the same period.

effort and expanded
There is a need for an expanded Federal effort to provide research and information to help guide state education departments and local school boards in existing programs.
Paralleling other 18th century encyclopedias, its scope was expanded beyond that of earlier publications, in an effort at comprehensiveness.
IKEA has also expanded their product base to include flat-pack houses, in an effort to cut prices involved in a first-time buyer's home.
The government-led effort — that began in the 1990s — to connect the country by expressways via the " National Trunk Highway System " has expanded the network to about by the end of 2011
The of Detrick Field were also surrounded by extensive farmlands that could be procured if and when the BW effort was expanded.
This became the one-act " Summersoft ", which he later rewrote into a short story, " Covering End ", and then expanded into a full-length play, The High Bid, which had a brief run in London in 1907, when James made another concerted effort to write for the stage.
In the rebuilding effort, the city closed the main street through downtown to traffic and built the Downtown Promenade in 1972 ( expanded in 1978 ).
In Japanese-occupied Chinese territories the prices of basic necessities rose substantially as Japan's war effort expanded.
A simple form of this used in some amateur-built aircraft uses rigid expanded foam plastic as the core, with a fiberglass covering, eliminating the necessity of fabricating molds, but requiring more effort in finishing ( see the Rutan VariEze ).
For practical purposes, though, the original Virginians rarely ventured far inland to what was then known as " The Virginia Wilderness ", although the concept itself helped renew the interest of investors, and additional funds enabled an expanded effort, known as the Third Supply.
While at the time of unification each had approximately equal numbers of students, buildings at Marischal College began to be expanded in the late-19th century with a significant rebuilding effort completed in 1906.
Because the Nazis saw the Rammelsberg with its metal ores as vital to the war effort and the difficulty of mineral dressing the ore had been technically solved ( using froth flotation ), the mine was greatly expanded as part of the Nazi's Four Year Plan.
The effort succeeded in attracting more women to apply to Stevens and expanded recruitment for athletes across the country.
Although the airport had expanded during the war effort, it desperately needed a new terminal to meet the city's growing needs.
Garrett G. Fagan expanded on this, noting how in the academic archaeological community, " New evidence or arguments have to be thoroughly scrutinised to secure their validity ... and longstanding, well-entrenched positions will take considerable effort and particularly compelling data to overturn.
The party's platform focused upon repeal of the Specie Resumption Act of 1875 and the renewed use of non-gold-backed United States Notes in an effort to restore prosperity through an expanded money supply.
Singapore fell in February and Japan occupied much of South East Asia and the large parts of the Pacific In response, the Australian government expanded the army and air force and called for an overhaul of economic, domestic, and industrial policies to mount a total war effort.
In the third quarter of 2002 the one-man effort was expanded to a small team.
The C ++ Standard Library underwent ISO standardization as part of the C ++ ISO Standardization effort, and is undergoing further work regarding standardization of expanded functionality.
Paralleling other 18th century encyclopedias, the scope was expanded beyond that of earlier publications, in an effort to become comprehensive.
The expanded college made a greater contribution to Australia's effort during World War II by training a sixth of the country's military personnel-including the majority of its Royal Australian Air Force communication officers.
Although CHCH had been available on cable in many Ontario markets for years, the station's broadcast signal coverage was expanded throughout Ontario with repeaters in 1997, in an effort to compete with the reach of Global's Ontario station CIII, as well as the Baton Broadcast System, a group of mostly CTV-affiliated stations which served most of the province .< Ref > In turn, WIC renamed the station ONtv, as in " Ontario Television ", in line with the naming pattern of many of its other stations ( such as BCTV, ITV, and RDTV ).
This project later took on an expanded role when Apple and Microsoft agreed to work together to form an alternative to PostScript fonts, which were extremely expensive, creating the TrueType effort based on Apple's existing efforts.
Additionally, improved harvesting technologies that expanded the harvesting areas and supported larger harvests per unit effort were not initiated.

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