Republicans opposed the ratification process, and were infuriated that the Democrats were attempting to revise the entire constitution without calling a constitutional convention, as had been called for the state's two previous constitutions.

Meanwhile, Congressional Democrats, labor unions and community safety and health advocates are attempting to revise the OSH Act to make it a felony with much higher penalties to commit a willful violation that results in the death of a worker.

Major Ranald MacDonell, a seasoned diplomat and the British vice-consul of Baku, was tasked by his superiors in attempting to persuade Shahumyan to revise his position.

Sabermetrics is concerned both with determining the value of a player or team in current or past seasons and with attempting to predict the value of a player or team in the future.

Because of the excessive heat and inadequately experienced drivers attempting to access the desert in the past, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources has decided since 2008-2009 to close the Simpson Desert during the summer — to save unprepared " adventurers " from themselves.

* March 19 – The wreck of the SS Georgiana, reputed to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser ever built and owned by the real Rhett Butler, is discovered off the Isle of Palms, South Carolina, by teenage diver E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after she was sunk with a million dollar cargo while attempting to run past the Union blockade into Charleston.

The subversive nature of the festival is reflected in Italy's many laws over the past several centuries attempting to restrict celebrations and the wearing of masks, a central feature of the Carnival.

Hatred relates a past experience with a Nigerian scammer while attempting to introduce Dr. Venture to the concept of email, saying: " If it ’ s a Nigerian prince asking you to take twelve million dollars, he never sends it.

Bryant was near the exit, preventing others from attempting to run past him and escape.

Briefly attempting to pitch past the injury, Ryan threw one further pitch after tearing his ligament ; with his injured arm, his final pitch was measured at 98 miles per hour.

The novel was the last of a story arc published to coincide with the series ' 30th anniversary in 1993, in which the Seventh Doctor encounters various alternate realities that have been created due to the Monk's meddling with time, including a reality where the Third Doctor was killed in his confrontation with the Silurians ( Blood Heat ), attempting to distract the Doctor while he helps the Vardans to invade Earth, thus getting their mutual revenge on the Doctor for their losses during their past confrontations with him.

John Brahm's The Locket ( 1946 ) featured Mitchum as bitter ex-husband to Laraine Day's femme fatale, while Raoul Walsh's Pursued ( 1947 ) combined western and noir styles, with Mitchum's character attempting to recall his past and find those responsible for killing his family.

It was to add steampunk elements to the fantasy setting, set in a world where the past, present and future of Sosaria were merged by a mistake made by Lord British while attempting to merge the shards of the Gem of Immortality.

Within the writing of Nennius is a sense of pseudo-nationalist pride attempting to legitimize the people of Britain and embellish the past through legend much as the Romans used the story of Romulus and Remus to legitimize the founding of Rome.

While in the past many Western countries that were predominately Christian often attempted to use their political and economic power in missions and evangelism, some missiologists are now disavowing these methods and attempting to construct a new paradigm that does not employ such imperialistic approaches which lead to language and cultural imposition.

In the past, before modern technology largely alleviated the problem of economic scarcity in industrialised countries, most people spent a large portion of their time attempting to provide their basic survival needs, including water, food, and protection from the weather.

The administration claimed that Iraq had not conformed with its obligation to disarm under past UN Resolutions, and that Saddam Hussein was actively attempting to acquire a nuclear weapons capability as well as enhance an existing arsenal of chemical and biological weapons.

Lister spends half a lifetime trapped there attempting to correct his species past actions before Red Dwarf can rescue him due to black hole time dilation.

Their approach to such a prominent part of Melbourne ’ s historical and cultural infrastructure was to bring the past and existing exhibition building, into a new context and attempting to redefine a museums role as a public building.

Though these industries have declined over the past decade, Faro is attempting to attract eco-tourists to the region to view such animals as Dall's Sheep and Stone's Sheep — a species of mountain sheep almost unique to the surrounding area.

The classic rock format evolved from AOR radio stations that were attempting to appeal to an older audience by including familiar songs of the past with current hits.

Others have speculated that by stripping Wagner's works of their Germanic and historic elements, Wieland was attempting to distance Bayreuth from its nationalistic past and create productions with universal appeal.

A time traveler attempting to alter the past in this model, intentionally or not, would only be fulfilling their role in creating history as we know it, not changing it.

The third group were found by a group of civilians as they moved towards the coast ; after attempting to bluff their way past by claiming to be German soldiers on a special field exercise, which failed when the local Mayor demanded identity papers, they were captured by carabinieri.

In contrast to many of the past leaders of the British Empire in India, he saw himself as an Orientalist monarch and believed his rule was that of a modernizer, attempting to bring the English intellectual revolution to India.

Her plans in the game include attempting to take over the Disney Castle of the past, bribing the YRP fairies into spying on Leon's group, and sending Pete to different worlds so he could recruit old and new allies.

After cutting herself twenty times, she replayed the tape, listened to the sounds, and tried to repeat the same movements, attempting to replicate the mistakes, merging past and present.

Now determined to break up the wedding, Alan first tries to kill Clarissa — first by dropping a gargoyle on her from atop her stately home's roof, then attempting to trap her car in the path of an oncoming train — then hires an actress to crash the wedding and pretend to be the mother of Piers ' illegitimate child, but Clarissa, through a mixture of luck and skill, foils him at every turn, and the wedding is completed as planned.

The Ulenga faction accused Shixwameni of " revolt against the party and its democratically elected leadership by organising illegitimate parallel national structures against CoD structures, and by attempting to usurp the national leadership of the party " following his defeat at the May 2008 congress.

This is a very strange way to begin a historical narrative proving that Eusebius was attempting to push his own ideas regarding the church into a text.

New Historicist and cultural materialist critics examined the play in its historical context, attempting to piece together its original cultural environment.

In this process of reclassification and relabelling, the government was attempting to tap into a " deep reservoir of negative feelings related to the historical role of quasi-religious cults as a destabilising force in Chinese political history.

* The. 45 Long Colt shot clip appears in the historical introduction to the film Tombstone, as do numerous other clips from the film, notably the man shot while attempting to escape the robbers.

Stalin stated that " or the Soviet government, the question of Poland was one of honor " and security because Poland had served as a historical corridor for forces attempting to invade Russia.

He was attempting a comprehensive summary of the party's historical experience and how to adapt to new situations and tasks when he stated:

The latter closely followed the pattern of series 4, in which the Professor had interviewed famous historical personalities in attempting to win a bet with Satan ( by showing that mankind was capable of redemption ).

Recent criticism has tended away from attempting to identify Cerinthus with an historical figure in favour of noting the literary implications of the pseudonym.

Four general historical models can be identified based on the aspect of early Christianity that the individuals and groups involved were attempting to restore.

Goldhagen further accused Mayer of obscurantism, of suppressing historical fact, and of being an apologist for Nazi Germany, like Ernst Nolte, for attempting to “ de-demonize ” National Socialism.

The London Dungeon is a popular London tourist attraction, which recreates various gory and macabre historical events in a grimly comedic ' gallows humour ' style, attempting to make them appealing to younger audiences.

Mosse's popularity was not only due to the fact that he laced his critical skepticism with humor, irony and empathy ; he also applied his historical knowledge to contemporary issues, attempting to be fair to opposing views while remaining true to his own principles.

Currently, the government is attempting to improve the old and historical part in Yanbu down town, as many old and historical buildings are located there.

These organizations are attempting to bridge the gap of historical prejudice between the two religious communities.

He takes a long term historical view on these matters: just as one can identify progressive and democratic advances achieved by e. g. religion-driven farmers ' rebellions in the European Middle Ages, such as the Jan Huss or Engelbrekt uprisings, so one should attempt to support authentic popular forces and anti-Imperialist movements today, without attempting to impose one's own time-and-place-specific political agenda on their struggles.

Karl Marx died before the establishment of formal social science but nonetheless fiercely rejected Comtean sociological positivism ( despite himself attempting to establish a historical materialist ' science of society ').

During the so-called " Fischer Controversy " which coalesced the German historical profession in the early 1960s, Hillgruber stood apart from the various right-wing historians who attempted to rebut Fischer, such as Gerhard Ritter, Hans Herzfeld, Egmont Zechlin, and Karl Dietrich Erdmann, by accepting Fischer's arguments in part instead of attempting to rebut Fischer in toto.

* The historical novel The Carton Chronicles: The Curious Tale of Flashman's true father ( 2010 ) by Keith Laidler imagines that Sydney Carton had a last minute change of heart, escaped the guillotine and went on to work as a spy for Robespierre whilst attempting to win Lucie Manette / Darnay's heart.

This strategy called for ending most of the party's historical traditions as a working-class trade union based party and attempting to gain new support among white-collar and public sector employees.

Following the suppression of Bar Kokhba's revolt, the emperor Hadrian changed the name of the province to Syria Palaestina and Jerusalem became Aelia Capitolina in order to humiliate the Jewish population by attempting to erase their historical ties to the region.