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`` We are menaced for the first time in the history of the Republic by the open and unblushing effort of a multi-millionaire to purchase the Presidential nomination.
Governments often tax and otherwise restrict the sale of goods that have negative externalities and subsidize or otherwise promote the purchase of goods that have positive externalities in an effort to correct the price distortions caused by these externalities.
A civic group, Milwaukee Civic Pride, was quickly established in an effort to raise the funds to purchase and destroy Dahmer's possessions.
Since the French effort was in disarray, the U. S. was able to make the purchase at its price.
To that end, Hill was a major figure in the effort launched by J. P. Morgan to float the Anglo-French Bond drive of 1915, which allowed the Allies to purchase much-needed foodstuffs and other supplies.
In 1895 Hebrew linguist and publisher Rabbi Chaim Hirschensohn became entangled in a failed effort to purchase the Western Wall and lost all his assets.
In 1987, after being fired from Marvel, Shooter spearheaded an effort to purchase the then-floundering publisher Marvel from its corporate ownership — " buying Marvel Comics " as it were.
The proposed electronic " credits " awarded to workers based on their perceived level of effort and sacrifice would simply be deducted from the workers account when used to make a purchase, disappearing rather than transferring the credit to the vendor.
Cyrus Mark, the first president of the Illinois Nature Conservancy spearheaded the effort to purchase Volo Bog for preservation.
The XScale effort at Intel was initiated by the purchase of the StrongARM division from Digital Equipment Corporation in 1998.
Or consider buying a spatula from a store ; to purchase the spatula, your costs will be not only the price of the spatula itself, but also the energy and effort it requires to find out which of the various spatula products you prefer, where to get them and at what price, the cost of traveling from your house to the store and back, the time waiting in line, and the effort of the paying itself ; the costs above and beyond the cost of the spatula are the transaction costs.
But for first purchase made of the area that is now Wellington and the Hutt Valley, every effort was made to be scrupulously fair and open.
The Peter Norton group merger logistical effort began immediately while the companies sought approval for the merger, and in August 1990, Symantec concluded the purchase — by this time the combination of the companies was already complete.
Dining services introduced organic foods into the diets of students on campus while making the effort to purchase from Michigan-based suppliers.
It was through Profima, and other similarly organized holding companies, that the Vatican was able to purchase blacklisted companies, such as Banco Sudameris ( blacklisted by both the US and Great Britain for its financing of the Axis war effort ).
The purchase, known as the Montana Legacy Project, is part of an effort to keep these forests in productive timber management and protect the area ’ s clean water and abundant fish and wildlife habitat, while promoting continued public access to these lands for fishing, hiking, hunting and other recreational pursuits .< ref >
Already leery of previous American attempts to purchase Texas, Mexican authorities blamed much of the Texian unrest on American immigrants, most of whom had made little effort to adapt to the Mexican culture.
Often coupons are available for purchase at some online sites, but since most coupons are not allowed to be sold, the fee is considered to be for the time and effort put into cutting out the coupons.
In 2008, the campaign capitalized on the poor economic condition of Americans and used financial adviser and talk show host, Suze Orman, in an effort to advertise milk as a smart and nutritious commodity to purchase.
He had previously written to Soulé that, if Cuba's purchase could not be negotiated, " you will then direct your effort to the next desirable object, which is to detach that island from the Spanish dominion and from all dependence on any European power " – words Soulé may have adapted to fit his own agenda.
And thus began a multi-year effort by NRB to build credibility for Evangelical broadcasters, to secure their fair share of the available public interest slots, and to overturn the ban on the purchase of radio airtime for religious broadcasting.
Along with the purchase of Smiths Aerospace, the purchase included opening the first University Development Center in Houghton, Michigan, in the effort to work with University Students to provide training in engineering and software development.

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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 ''.
A dramatic series in 1956 saw a record that will probably never be beaten: off-spinner Jim Laker's monumental effort at Old Trafford when he bowled 68 of 191 overs to take 19 out of 20 possible Australian wickets in the Fourth Test.
For example, the federal government funds Canada Day events at the Old Port of Montreal — an area run by a federal Crown corporation — while the National Holiday parade is a grassroots effort that has been met with pressure to cease, even from federal officials.
Payback at Morning Peak ( 2011 ) is his first solo effort, a story of love and revenge set in the Old West.
The Old Trafford Test was less of a turnaround and more of a team effort than the previous two Tests, but Botham again was England's hero hitting yet another century in what Lillee claimed to be a better innings than his Headingley heroics.
Seventh-day Sabbatarianism has also been criticized as an effort to combine Old Testament laws, practiced in Judaism, with Christianity, or to revive the Judaizers of the Epistles or the Ebionites.
Orderic Vitalis records that late in William's life the king tried to learn to read Old English, but was unable to devote sufficient time to the effort and quickly gave up.
In an effort to define the Western Hemisphere as the parts of the world which are not part of the Old World, there also exist projections which use the 20th meridian west and the diametrically opposed 160th meridian east to define the hemisphere.
The Emperor created the Space Marines, and their leaders the Primarchs, for use in " The Great Crusade ," a two-century effort to re-unite the far-flung colonies of humanity following a " dark age " known as the " Age of Strife " and also as " Old Night ".
Gutenberg's first and only large-scale printing effort was the now iconic Gutenberg Bible in the 1450s — a Latin translation from the Hebrew Old Testament and the Greek New Testament, copies of which can be viewed on the British Library website www. bl. uk.
The history of the United States Navy divides into two major periods: the " Old Navy ", a small but respected force of sailing ships that was also notable for innovation in the use of ironclads during the American Civil War, and the " New Navy ", the result of a modernization effort that began in the 1880s made it the largest in the world by the 1920s.
In an effort to fully restore the galaxy to a peaceful state, the New Republic began a campaign of recapturing vital Imperial worlds, including Coruscant, the former capital of the Old Republic and the Galactic Empire alike.
In 1942 the rails over Promontory's " Old Line " were lifted for use in World War II's war effort.
The Josefov neighborhood, or Old Jewish Quarter, in Prague was leveled and rebuilt in an effort at urban renewal between 1890 and 1913.
After a largely successful grassroots effort to resist the Greek state's new doctrine and the Gregorian calendar that originated in Western Christendom, the popularity of the Old Calendar was attacked.
In 1842, Cole embarked on a Grand Tour of Europe in an effort to study in the style of the Old Masters and to paint its scenery.
Beamer's debut recording was 1972's solo effort, Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar in the Real Old Style.
The Orloj suffered heavy damage on May 7 and especially May 8, 1945, during the Prague Uprising, when Germans directed incendiary fire from several armored vehicles and an anti-aircraft gun to the south-west side of the Old Town Square in an effort to silence the provocative broadcasting initiated by the National Committee on May 5.
Old and new settlers did a great effort to raise the Szczecin from ruins, rebuild, reconstruct and extend the city's industry, residential areas but also the cultural heritage ( e. g. the Pomeranian Dukes ' Castle in Szczecin ), and it was still harder to do this under the communist regime.
A major campaign was organised in August, but the effort ended in total failure when the English were routed by the Scots, led by Robert the Bruce, at the Battle of Old Byland on 14 October 1322.
The literary effort most commonly attributed to Óengus is the Old Irish work known as Félire Óengusso (" Martyrology of Óengus "), which is the earliest metrical martyrology — a register of saints and their feast days — to have been written in the vernacular.
In these, he opened a group of colourful restaurants-including Ed's Warehouse, Ed's Folly and Old Ed's-in a successful effort to draw people back into the neighbourhood.
The Old State House frequently has preservation and restoration projects as a part of the ongoing effort to keep the building in good condition.
His primary effort toward this end was the creation of the Bank of the Commonwealth, but many of his other financial reforms were deemed unconstitutional by the Kentucky Court of Appeals, touching off the Old Court – New Court controversy.

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