Conchita nagged at the younger children, attempting without success to keep her thoughts off Tom Brannon.

" Drivers " serve to keep the prey running in a certain direction and follow them without attempting to make a catch.

Marvin Mayer notes that some scholars regard the idea of dying and rising deities in the mystery religions as being fanciful but suggests this may be motivated by apologetic concerns, attempting to keep Christ's resurrection as a unique event.

Some of the earliest gun-control legislation at the state level were the " black codes " that replaced the " slave codes " after the Civil War, attempting to prevent blacks ' having access to the full rights of citizens, including the right to keep and bear arms.

For example, in " Bread and Circuses " itself, James Kirk and crew investigated the fate of a ship's personnel on a planet while attempting to keep their origins secret even while the planet's rulers were aware.

A simple rule of thumb to keep the point of the sword pointed to the opponent ( or at within the area of the gate ) while attempting to parry in all angles, will provide a good foundation for an appropriate counter maneuver reflexes.

While we ’ re not attempting to keep up with the Joneses, we felt this is a significant award, and it could feel and look a bit more significant.

The following should be understood in discussions of NAIRU: governments that follow it are attempting to keep unemployment at certain levels ( usually over four percent, and as high as ten or more percent ) by keeping interest rates high.

On August 15, 2009 Wired writer, Evan Ratliff " vanished " attempting to keep his whereabouts secret saying " I will try to stay hidden for 30 days.

Elliott and his siblings help the extraterrestrial return home while attempting to keep it hidden from their mother and the government.

Another time, he woke up after spending a night in a barn to find himself at the far end of a musket, confronted by a man attempting to keep away thieves.

This important traditional practice is one of the reasons often given for the requirement that the athame must be double-edged ; because attempting to trace a pentagram in the air with a single-edged blade will require some awkward twisting of the hand and wrist, in order to keep the single cutting edge in the direction of motion.

Many games between 1941 and 1980 had insignificantly-short runs ( some measured in a span of weeks or even days ) that the networks felt it unnecessary to keep them for posterity, whereas recycling the tapes would be more profitable and less of an effort than attempting to sell the series in reruns, in an era before cable television.

The contract, however, did not keep Roxborough and Black from attempting to cash in as Louis ' managers ; when Louis turned 21 on May 13, 1935, Roxborough and Black each signed Louis to an onerous long-term contract that collectively dedicated half of Louis ' future income to the pair.

This manufacturer, not unsurprisingly, refused to supply any UK based manufacturer while it was attempting to keep Japanese manufacturers supplied.

However, forensic evidence suggests that Byrd had been attempting to keep his head up while being dragged, and an autopsy suggested that Byrd was alive during much of the dragging.

He did not expect the British to accede to the claim and made it to keep Germany from attempting to take it.

Instead of attempting to break out of the encirclement, German dictator Adolf Hitler decided to keep Axis forces in Stalingrad and resupply them by air.

The magazine struggled to compete with television in the 1960s by increasing its international coverage and attempting to keep up with the sexual revolution through a succession of editors including Gzowski and Charles Templeton.

It is a common misconception that a simple " no soliciting " sign is meant to keep individuals from attempting to speak with a business owner or principal about his products or services.

She is easily embarrassed and uses most of her energies attempting to keep others from saying or doing things that go against her rules.

Morse died on July 22, 1974, while attempting to keep a busy campaign schedule.

But in 1918, the BRT would likely have been more criticized for not attempting to keep the system running, absent the accident.

Image: Pentagon vietnam protests. jpg | Members of the military are shown attempting to keep Vietnam War protesters from rioting.

For a number of years, Wesleyan has been drawing varied groups of political and business leaders into these informal discussions with members of the faculty and student body, attempting to explore and clarify aspects of their responsibility for public policy.

Another criticism is that universities tend more to pseudo-intellectualism than intellectualism per se ; for example, to protect their positions and prestige, academicians may over-complicate problems and express them in obscure language ( e. g., the Sokal affair, a hoax by physicist Alan Sokal attempting to show that American humanities professors invoke complicated, pseudoscientific jargon to support their political positions.

God's commission to Joshua in chapter 1 is framed as a royal installation, the people's pledge of loyalty to Joshua as successor Moses recalls royal practices, the covenant-renewal ceremony led by Joshua was the prerogative of the kings of Judah, and God's command to Joshua to meditate on the " book of the law " day and night parallels the description of Josiah in 2 Kings 23: 25 as a king uniquely concerned with the study of the law — not to mention their identical territorial goals ( Josiah died in 609 BCE while attempting to annex the former Israel to his own kingdom of Judah ).

Bacardi continues to fight a war in the courts attempting to legalize their own Havana Club trademark outside of the United States.

Players take turns shooting discs across the circular playing surface, trying to have their discs land in the higher-scoring regions of the board, while also attempting to knock away opposing discs.

They broke their legs to prevent them from attempting to escape before being eaten, but kept them alive so that they could brood over their impending fate.

It accepts new concepts, while attempting also to accord old beliefs their due.

It accepts new concepts, while attempting also to accord old beliefs their due.

The former warlord Yan Xishan, who had fled to Nanking only one month before, quickly insinuated himself within the Li-Chiang rivalry, attempting to have Li and Chiang reconcile their differences in the effort to resist the Communists.

The Cook Islands Herald suggested that the ariki were attempting thereby to regain some of their traditional prestige or mana.

Not to address their errant ways before attempting a cure could set them back in their " errand.

On October 4, 2011, military and police squads used force late at night to disperse hundreds of angry Coptic demonstrators and their supporters who were attempting to stage a sit-in outside the Maspero TV headquarters in downtown Cairo to protest attacks on a Christian church in Upper Egypt.

The crusaders investigated the eastern ruins on the site, occasionally excavating through the rubble, and while attempting to reach the cistern, they discovered part of the original ground level of Hadrian's temple enclosure ; they decided to transform this space into a chapel dedicated to Helena ( the Chapel of Saint Helena ), widening their original excavation tunnel into a proper staircase.

Those attempting to lose weight as part of a dieting program may choose to restrict their intake of dessert foods, as they tend to have a large amount of starch and sugar.

He might have been attempting to persuade them to ally themselves with Rome, thus reviving the old, Rome-friendly, Palmyrene sphere of influence, or simply attempting to reduce the frequency of their incursions.

Marginalist theory, such as above, describes the consumers as attempting to reach most-preferred positions, subject to income and wealth constraints while producers attempt to maximize profits subject to their own constraints, including demand for goods produced, technology, and the price of inputs.

The royal couple, on separate ships due to their disagreements, were first attacked in May by Byzantine ships attempting to capture both ( in order to take them to Byzantium, according to the orders of the Emperor ).

In the Epilogue section of the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál, a euhemerized monologue equates Fenrisúlfr to Pyrrhus, attempting to rationalize that " it killed Odin, and Pyrrhus could be said to be a wolf according to their religion, for he paid no respect to places of sanctuary when he killed the king in the temple in front of Thor's altar.

In high intensity necking, the combatants will spread their front legs and swing their necks at each other, attempting to land blows with their ossicones.