At this time, Thurmond led the effort to thwart Johnson's attempt to elevate Justice Abe Fortas to the post of Chief Justice of the United States.

At around the time of Edward's secret marriage, Warwick was negotiating an alliance with France in an effort to thwart a similar arrangement being made by his sworn enemy Margaret of Anjou, wife of the deposed Henry VI.

Other nations are racing to colonize space and they would stop at nothing, even sabotage, to thwart the US effort.

There he was one of the few white legislators who voted against the " hate bills " of the segregationists which the legislature passed in the effort to thwart the desegregation of public facilities and public schools.

In an effort to thwart Dolores ' rightful claim to the Florodora fortune, Gilfain plans to marry her himself.

Lai launched Taiwan editions of Next Magazine in 2001 and Apple Daily in 2003, taking on heavily established rivals who made considerable effort to thwart him.

MacNeill submitted a piece called " The North Began ", encouraging formation of a Volunteer force committed to the rights of Irishmen, much as the Unionists had done earlier that year with the Ulster Volunteers in an effort to thwart Home Rule.

During the period leading up to the referendum vote the American Chemistry Council stepped into this local affair, ultimately spending some $ 1. 4 million on their successful effort to thwart the proposed system of fully accounting for the cost of plastic bags.

In most of the episodes, the team confronts and defeats an army of enemy soldiers and the " monster of the week ", to thwart the antagonists plans, and in one last effort to defeat the heroes, an enlarged version of the monster appears to confront them, just to be defeated again when they call for huge robotic vehicles / animals (" mechas ") that can combine to form one giant robot to fight it.

Indeed, even before the treaty was publicly released, tobacco industry representatives embarked upon a concerted effort to thwart the efforts of FCTC drafters, in addition to participating policy-makers from individual WHO member states.

However, despite his linkage to MIKE and the enmity and struggle for Garmonbozia between MIKE and BOB, it is unlikely that The Man aids Agent Cooper in an effort to thwart BOB.

Among other activities, the group mounted " home-defense seminars " -- an effort to train Temple parishioners in the use of fire-arms in order to thwart the " black nationalist revolution " that Beeny warned was imminent.

The Egyptians knew of Abdullah's agreement with Meir and were determined to thwart Transjordan's territorial ambitions, " thus the Arab war plan changed in conception and essence from a united effort to conquer parts of the nascent Jewish state and perhaps destroy it, into a multilateral land grab focusing on the Arab areas of the country.

Maps of the city, which has a maze of meandering streets, are not distributed, as part of an effort to thwart Luskan spies.

The combination of new and enhanced sensor technology, coupled with information exchange between targeting systems and strike aircraft, helicopters, or smart missiles, can defeat threats that, in previous times, were considered too difficult to thwart without greatly widening a war effort.

He falls in love with a beautiful ( blonde ) spy on his own side, which proves to be an awkward complication, and is often called upon to thwart the enemy in some evil plan to ruin Britain's war effort.

In 1796, a British ship attempted to remove the slaves by force – and succeeded in embarking some 100 of them – but the slaves revolted and helped thwart the effort, which failed completely when the ship foundered.

After Philip's reduction of the Grabaei, Pleuratus, in a losing effort, tried to thwart Philip's advances in Illyria and succeeded in wounding one hundred and fifty of his elite corps and Hippostratus the son of Amyntas, in their pursuit of Pleuratus.

The Author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he has the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines ; if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort.

However, later archival work by the Soviet physicist German Goncharov has suggested that while Fuchs ' early work ( most of which is still classified in the United States, but copies of which were available to the Soviets ) did not aid the Soviets in their effort towards the hydrogen bomb, it was actually far closer to the final correct solution than was recognized at the time, and indeed spurred Soviet research into useful problems which eventually resulted in the correct answer.

" Loki states that it was indeed an effort, and also a success, for he has discovered that Þrymr has the hammer, but that it cannot be retrieved unless Freyja is brought to Þrymr as his wife.

At all events, this is the way the phenomena look to me: in the region of the knowable the last thing to be seen, and that with considerable effort, is the idea of good ; but once seen, it must be concluded that this is indeed the cause for all things of all that is right and beautiful — in the visible realm it gives birth to light and its sovereign ; in the intelligible realm, itself sovereign, it provided truth and intelligence — and that the man who is going to act prudently in private or in public must see it " ( 517b – c ).

Some effort was made to rename the town to Brackmann, and indeed, some postmarks came out that way, but other town interests eventually prevailed against a town name change.

The Author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he has the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines ; if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort.

The rules were indeed changed, but it was due to an effort by the Speedway to get more car manufacturers involved in the race by discouraging the entry of specialized racing machines which dominated the 500 during the mid-to late -' 20s.

Russia's counter-offensive was indeed boosted by Brusilov's engagement ; 14, 000 officers and over 100, 000 deserters enlisted in or returned to the Red Army, and thousands of civilian volunteers contributed to the effort.

The government has now ordered new armoured vehicles to the areas in an effort to increase the security of those serving in the warzone and indeed to prevent more troop fatalities.

A valuable book, indeed, and the outcome of intense and long sustained effort ; but I can scarcely venture to name it on the same day as his maximum opus – twenty seven large volumes devoted to a systematic account of created beings and substances and the relations between them, together with a hundred and fifty volumes more of index, exact scientific description, separate treatises and a vocabulary: a hundred and fifty volumes, Jack, with forty thousand drawings and thirty thousand specimens.

It is doubtful whether such a Herculean effort could have succeeded without political turmoil, or indeed at all.

This was, indeed, an earnest effort on Baum's part to escape the series, but the insistence of the readers meant the continuation of the series, and therefore the discovery of many ways for people to pass through this barrier as well as over the sands.

Is now conclusive proof that the trophy was indeed donated to the Red Cross to be melted down for the war effort and is therefore no longer in existence.

In contrast to Charles and Emma Frye of Seattle's Frye Art Museum, Henry made no effort to control the future of the museum he financed ; indeed, he specifically disavowed any such intention.

Skeletor's frantic effort to cover up what happened to Keldor, combined with the fact that Keldor vanished to another dimension when attempting to become a master sorcerer, is taken as a heavy implication that the two characters are indeed one and the same.

By mid-August, the SpaceX CEO Elon Musk clarified that while the Merlin 2 engine architecture was a key element of any effort SpaceX would make toward their objective of " super-heavy lift " launch vehicles — and that SpaceX did indeed want to " move toward super heavy lift "— the specific potential design configurations of the particular launch vehicles shown by Markusic at the propulsion conference were merely conceptual " brainstorming ideas ", just a " bunch of ideas for discussion.

The consciousness of effort, indeed, is a draw-back to the enjoyment of her verse.

In an effort to determine if JH is indeed responsible for manifesting dominance, a follow up experiment was done utilizing 20-hydroxyecdysone, an ecdysone known to enhance maturation and size of oocytes.

From 1940 to 1947, Waziristan and indeed most of the Frontier remained relatively calm and the British were able to divert most of their military effort to more important theatres.

In fact, the early medieval legal scholars, too, wrote commentaries and lectures, but their main effort was indeed creating glosses.

While every effort is made to enable students to take the subjects of their choice, this is not always possible if the course is oversubscribed or indeed under-subscribed.

A serious effort was made to prevent the relationship between Connolly and MacArthur becoming public and indeed it was claimed that this was homosexual, something that was later discounted.

In 1974, she wrote, " The outstanding weakness of this, the final novelistic effort of Mishima Yukio — and indeed the major failing of the bulk of his work — is its striking inability to rise above the emotional and intellectual limitations of its author.

Hundreds of ships and thousands of mecha participate in this maximal effort ; nonetheless, it becomes rapidly clear under mounting losses that the REF will indeed be defeated by the surprising strength of the Invid in as little as a few hours ' time.