Recently, in England, there have been plans to raise the age limit for purchasing knives, including utility knives, from 16 to 18, in an effort to reduce knife crimes.

On July 1, 2003, Christopher Swain of Portland, Oregon, became the first person to swim the Columbia River's entire length, in an effort to raise public awareness about the river's environmental health.

Kapodistrias negotiated with the Great Powers and the Ottoman Empire the borders and the degree of independence of the Greek state and signed the peace treaty that ended the War of Independence with the Ottomans ; introduced the phoenix, the first modern Greek currency ; organised local administration ; and, in an effort to raise the living standards of the population, introduced the cultivation of the potato into Greece.

The Soviet Union, responding with an effort to raise the Albanian leaders ' morale, elevated diplomatic relations between the two countries to the ambassadorial level.

A civic group, Milwaukee Civic Pride, was quickly established in an effort to raise the funds to purchase and destroy Dahmer's possessions.

From this we learn that, although Pius's defenders still say that he paid a golden ransom in a vain effort to save Rome's Jews from transportation to the death camps, the most he did was indicate a willingness to chip in if the Jews could not raise the sum demanded.

Major General John A. McClernand was authorized to raise an army in his home state of Illinois for the purpose of taking Vicksburg ; Grant was very frustrated at the lack of direction he was receiving to move forward from his station in Memphis, and more aggravated to learn of this apparent effort to brush him aside.

King led the effort to raise a memorial to Harper, which resulted in the erection of the Sir Galahad statue on Parliament Hill in 1905.

* January 9 – British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars.

*** War bonds, a type of government bond used to raise funding for a war effort

Calhoun labored to raise troops, to provide funds, to speed logistics, to improve the currency, and to regulate commerce to aid the war effort.

In an effort to reduce local demands on the central treasury, local government was given wider powers to raise local taxes.

Late in 1861, the United States federal government suspended specie payments, seeking to raise revenue for the American Civil War effort without exhausting its reserves of gold and silver.

As an effort to raise racing quality and promote horseracing nationwide, the KRA started to construct the new thoroughbred racecourse in Busan, the second largest city in South Korea.

The plot features an African-American woman who goes North in an effort to raise money for a rural school in the Deep South for poor Black children.

In a similar move made by former North Hollywood neighborhoods that are now named Toluca Woods, West Toluca Lake, and Valley Village, a few Van Nuys neighborhoods have won approval the Los Angeles City Council to break off from Van Nuys and join the more upscale communities of Lake Balboa, Valley Glen and Sherman Oaks in an effort to raise their property values.

In Afghanistan, the Carter administration began providing limited covert military assistance to Afghanistan's mujahideen, in an effort to drive the Soviets out of the nation, or at least raise the military and political cost of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.

This could be an effort to raise awareness of alternative sexuality or a political metaphor for oppression.

In an effort to raise more funds, museum organizers used Allen's extensive art collection to create a 2006 exhibit within the confines of the EMP.

The majority of homes in Brentwood were built during and after World War II ; young people coming to Washington, D. C., to support the war effort found a quiet place to raise their families.

Countless volunteers passed sandbags from hand to hand in a futile effort to raise the dike level and hold back the water, until at 11: 00 am, Civil Defense sounded the alarm calling a halt to all efforts on the east side.

Started in 1972, in an effort to raise funds for the city park, Lawrence and Eulyne LaFoy, along with a group of other citizens, had the idea of holding a horse show and tack sale.

This effort was moderately successful ( the larger area was known as Alderwood Manor during this time ), as a few people moved into the area to raise chicken, mink and chinchilla.

On this tour, they perform with the symphony orchestras of various U. S. colleges in an effort to raise money for the individual schools ' music programs.

Herodotus had no Athenian victories to record after the initial success, and the fact that Themistocles was able to carry his proposal to devote the surplus funds of the state to the building of so large a fleet seems to imply that the Athenians were themselves convinced that a supreme effort was necessary.

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.

** King Phillip of France meets with the Estates General to ask for funds to further the war effort against the English

Campaigning in a liberal state like Massachusetts and riding the wave of national media coverage and greater campaign funds coming into his effort, he rose in the polls dramatically.

In an apparent effort to secure a larger share of research funds, geographers had the National Science Foundation's Geography and Regional Science Program renamed " Geography and Spatial Sciences ".

In 1846 the Polk Administration created a United States Treasury system that moved public funds from private banks to Treasury branches in an effort to stabilize the economy.

:" The cooperation that was built up with Canada during the war was an amalgam compounded of diverse elements of which the air and land routes to Alaska, the Canol project, and the CRYSTAL and CRIMSON activities were the most costly in point of effort and funds expended.

In addition to this, FEMA provides funds for training of response personnel throughout the United States and its territories as part of the agency's preparedness effort.

In June 1933, in an effort to undermine Long's political dominance, Roosevelt cut Long out of consultation on the distribution of federal funds or patronage in Louisiana and placed Long's opponents in charge of federal programs in the state.

Because funds were extremely limited every effort was made to use already available equipment.

In 1918, and again in 1919, she introduced legislation to provide state and federal funds for health clinics, midwife education, and visiting nurse programs in an effort to reduce the nation's infant mortality.

Franklin's campaign to raise funds for the move were complicated by the Great Depression, but ended up including a gift from the City of Waterville-in an effort to keep Colby from relocating to Augusta, Waterville deeded on Mayflower Hill, near the outskirts of the city, to the college.

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.

Rubin also noted that half the funds northern Iraq received through the sanctions regime had not been spent, thus the amount of goods it actually purchased was less than what the rest of Iraq was provided ; that northern Iraq had recently been subjected to chemical weapons and was under a separate blockade by the central government ; and that UN workers had rebuilt water purification facilities all over Iraq and engaged in dozens of other projects in an effort to compensate for the UN restrictions on and approval process for potential " dual-use " chemicals.

The first popularly elected mayor of Hiroshima, Shinzo Hamai ( 1905 – 1968 ) sought funds for the preservation effort domestically and internationally.

She was a practical pacifist in the sense that she helped the war effort by working as a fire warden and by travelling around the country raising funds for the Peace Pledge Union's food relief campaign.

They were joined in the effort by grass-roots organizations that collected record numbers of signatures on petitions to place anti-airport initiatives on the ballot and raised funds for the election campaigns.

By mid-May, the recall organization was calling for funds to begin a lawsuit against the secretary, and publicly considered a separate recall effort for the Secretary of State ( also an elected official in California ).

Later that month, the committee's periodic e-mail said that state funds were being illegally used to fight the recall effort.