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effort and heal
" In the year 642, Emperor Taizong of Tang made an effort to eradicate this practice by issuing a decree of a stiffer punishment for those who were found to deliberately injure and heal themselves.
On succeeding to the throne in 1830, he published an edict in which he promised to give his most anxious attention to the impartial administration of justice, to reform the finances, and to use every effort to heal the wounds which had afflicted the Kingdom for so many years.
Saca announced his intention to seek reconciliation with the opposition FMLN, in an effort to heal old divisions from the country's violent past.
Unlike humans, Uratha heal very fast ( sometimes in a matter of seconds ) and can theoretically regrow limbs and organs ( which is accompanied with a great deal of effort ).
On August 14, 1865, King was appointed by President Andrew Johnson Collector of the Port of New York, in an effort to eliminate corruption in the Port of New York and to heal divisions within the Republican Party.
On Muir Island, the X-Men use Shadowcat to lure in Colossus in an effort to heal his head wound ( caused by the X-Cutioner ), which they believed was responsible for his defection.
The 1 – 0 home defeat by Hamburg on 22 October was Brown's last action of the year, as Celtic initially chose to rest him in another effort to heal the ankle injury.

effort and residual
The French turned over its Lao French Union troops to the new nation ; as a residual effort, it kept two bases in Laos and supplied advisors to the new Lao military.

effort and wounds
Although wounded in the leg in this effort, his death was the result of shrapnel wounds from an air bomb dropped by a German plane.
That effort was a failure, inflicting relatively slight wounds on the prince.
The prosecution's case was further undermined after it had spent a great deal of effort to link the 13 wounds which Professor Sikorsky had discovered on a part of the murdered boy's body with the importance of the number thirteen in " Jewish ritual ," only to have it revealed later that there were actually 14 wounds on that part of the body.
But Louis made a last effort, the English contingent and its great leader were withdrawn from the enemy's camp, and Villars, though still suffering from his Malplaquet wounds, outmanoeuvered and decisively defeated Eugène at Denain.
Sforza was driven from the Marche, but defeated Piccinino at Montelauro, and while the latter was preparing for a desperate effort against Sforza he was suddenly recalled to Milan, his army was beaten in his absence, and he died of grief and of his wounds in 1444.
Fine Gael said the 2008 figure would rub “ salt in the wounds of the many people who have lost their jobs or taken significant pay cuts in an effort to achieve wage restraint ”.
In the ensuing hand-to-hand encounter he sustained pistol wounds, but heroically continued in the advance, during which he received additional wounds: but, with great physical effort, he remained in active command of his detachment.
In a statement on Wiesenthal's death, Council of Europe chairman Terry Davis said, " Without Simon Wiesenthal's relentless effort to find Nazi criminals and bring them to justice, and to fight anti-Semitism and prejudice, Europe would never have succeeded in healing its wounds and reconciling itself ....

effort and from
As he informs Watson, `` My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.
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.
The actual impelling force which severed me from evangelical effort was of another sort.
Both Secretary of War Baker and Secretary of Navy Daniels devoted much time and effort to the problem of providing reasonably normal and wholesome activities in camp for the millions of men who had been removed from their home environment.
But for the safety of Southeast Asia, and for the sake of the Laotian people -- who would not be well-ruled by either militant minority now engaged in the fighting -- this last big effort to seal that country from the cold war had to be made.
We ran east for about half a mile before we turned back to the road, panting from the effort and soaked with sweat.
How long it will take to show substantial success in this effort will vary greatly from country to country.
Have you evaluated the proper place of advertising and all phases of promotion in your total marketing program -- from the standpoint of effort, money, and effectiveness??
The bitter memory of Russia's exclusion from the Paris Peace Conference and of the West's effort to stamp out Bolshevism at its birth boiled up within him.
Resolved, that we find in this fearful tragedy at Harper's Ferry a reason for more earnest effort to remove the evil of slavery from the whole land as speedily as possible.
Interruptions came largely from the bench, which numerous times rebuked the Attorney General for letting his witnesses run on, though it, too, made no serious effort to choke off the flow.
The time has come for citizens of all faiths to unite in an effort to remove this divisive and nettlesome issue from the political and social life of our nation.
When Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov took it over in 1957 from Georgi Zaroubin, he made a determined effort to change this idea.
`` We have witnessed in this campaign the effort to project Mr. Mitchell as the image of a unity candidate from Washington.
Being convinced that salvation is alone by accepting Christ as Saviour, and being convicted by the Holy Spirit of my lost condition, I do repent of all effort to be saved by any form of good works, and just now receive Jesus as my personal Saviour and salvation as a free gift from Him.
Now Spencer, seeming with effort to shake himself from lethargy, spoke.
Wittkowsky counters that Swift's satiric use of statistical analysis is an effort to enhance his satire that " springs from a spirit of bitter mockery, not from the delight in calculations for their own sake ".
Kiva walls show marks from great fires set within them, which probably required removal of the massive roof-a task which would require significant effort.
* 1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
* 1943 – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.
This move garnered criticism from the left ( for being too tentative in promoting gay rights ) and from the right ( who opposed any effort to allow gays to serve ).
Rep. Don Pilon of Saco has led the effort to get rid of the laws that prohibit automobile dealerships from opening for business on Sundays.

effort and convention
He was also a delegate to the Virginia constitutional ratifying convention, and was instrumental to the successful ratification effort in Virginia.
For example, shortly before the GOP convention, Daugherty struck a deal with millionaire and political opportunist Jake Harmon, whereby 18 Oklahoma delegates whose votes Harmon had bought for Lowden were committed to Harding as a second choice if Lowden's effort faltered.
In an effort to preserve their vision of the organization, the Fifth Order members revealed their identities and resigned their leadership positions at Mattachine's May 1953 convention.
This convention was an idea borrowed from the puppet handlers of bunraku theater, who dressed in total black in an effort to simulate props moving independently of their controls.
* A rare convention is to use xy for the product and x ⊕ y for the ring sum, in an effort to avoid the ambiguity of +.
Robinson was involved in the New Politics Initiative, an effort to build a new progressive political party in Canada closely linked with social movements and labour, and the NDP's renewal process, although he remained committed to the party after the NPI's defeat at the 2001 general convention in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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.
Leading the merger effort were Elmer Kelm, the head of the Minnesota Democratic Party and founding chairman of the DFL party ; Elmer Benson, effectively the head of the Farmer-Labor Party by virtue of his leadership of its dominant left-wing faction ; and rising star Hubert H. Humphrey, who chaired the Fusion Committee that accomplished the union and then went on to chair its first state convention.
However, after the tornado he decided to turn the convention into a relief effort.
However, in an effort to gain votes for all women, she spoke out against the literacy requirements for the right to vote at the national American Women's Suffrage Association convention which took place in 1903 in New Orleans.
Lott led the effort at the 1962 national convention of the Sigma Nu fraternity to defeat the Civil Rights era amendment proposed by the Stanford and Brown University chapters to end mandatory racial exclusion by the fraternity.
Just at this time Redmond made a desperate effort to broker a new compromise with Irish unionists, when he accepted Lloyd George's proposal for a national convention to resolve the problem of Home Rule and draft a constitution for Ireland.
At this meeting Thomas pledged that the upcoming convention would make no effort to terminate the newspapers of the various factions.
The convention did pass a ban on future branch resolutions on controversial matters, an effort to rein in the activities of the factions at the local level.
At its December 1883 Baltimore convention, the SLP made a vain effort at reestablishing organizational unity with the IWPA, adopting a particularly radical " proclamation " in the name of the party and eliminating the position of National Secretary, to allow the form of decentralization favored by the anarchists.
By October 1975 Bentsen, generating little national attention or significance in the polls, scaled back his campaign to a limited effort in areas of 8 to 10 states, hoping for a deadlocked convention.
This and other groups began to turn to political action in 1870 in an effort to advance their political agenda, with an August 1870 convention calling for the establishment of the National Labor Reform Party.
Ruthenberg and Louis C. Fraina, turned away from that effort and formed their own party, the Communist Party of America, at a separate convention on September 1, 1919.
Examples of convention activities include word games, trivia games, hidden puzzles ( which must be found before they can be solved ), local field trips to places of NPL interest, library trivia hunts, and an " extravaganza " ( a multi-stage puzzlehunt that requires team effort to solve ).
Reverent calls are an effort by personnel in armed forces to rebuild the tradition of oratory recounting of military history in the convention of cadences.
He was also a member of the peace convention of 1861, held in Washington, D. C., in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending American Civil War.
Because of this, both Ford and Reagan arrived in Kansas City before the convention opened to woo the remaining uncommitted delegates in an effort to secure the nomination.
In 1861 Grimes was a member of the peace convention held in Washington, D. C., in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending Civil War.
His term as mayor was characterized by an intense effort to distance Columbus, Ohio from its cowtown reputation ( New World Center, 1986 ; convention center / arena complex, 1987 ; acquiring St. Louis Cardinals NFL football team, 1988 ), a downtown office boom, with the construction of many skyscrapers.

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