It was a response to the conflict between political pressure and the moral intuition which resulted in attempts at prediction.

The remedies have been many and varied -- attempts to teach management techniques -- either in plant, at special schools, or in university `` crash '' courses -- provision of management-trained assistants or associates.

No attempts to measure the radio emission of the remaining planets have been reported, and, because of their distances, small diameters, or low temperatures, the thermal radiation at radio wave lengths reaching the earth from these sources is expected to be of very low intensity.

Although there is no question but that the process of washing fabrics involves a number of phenomena which are related together in an extremely complicated way and that these phenomena and their interrelations are not well understood at the present, this section attempts to present briefly an up-to-date picture of the physical chemistry of washing either fabrics or hard surfaces.

I would propose, first, an abandonment of attempts at a universal lexical list, as intrinsically unachievable, and operationally inadequate in proportion as it is achieved.

It is at least as important as the more dramatic attempts to break down barriers of inequality in the South.

Her teeth chattered so that she made three attempts at speech before she became intelligible.

There were attempts at compromise.

He commented favorably on colonization in the Emancipation Proclamation, but all attempts at such a massive undertaking failed.

Other calls include those given by a female in response to the advertisement call and a release call given by a male or female during unwanted attempts at amplexus.

The connection to Phoenician religion claimed by Herodotus I. 105, 131 ) has led to inconclusive attempts at deriving Greek Aphrodite from a Semitic Aštoret, via hypothetical Hittite transmission.

When Ewen rejected these attempts, Alexander sailed forth to compel him, but on the way he suffered a fever at the Isle of Kerrera in the Inner Hebrides.

The able and forceful empress Euphrosyne tried in vain to sustain his credit and his court ; Vatatzes, the favourite instrument of her attempts at reform, was assassinated by the emperor's orders.

After a few failed attempts at invasion, the brothers signed a peace treaty, arranged by Afonso's mother Queen Elizabeth.

Only the Jarawa and Sentinelese still maintain a steadfast independence and refuse most attempts at contact ; their numbers are uncertain but estimated to be in the low hundreds.

This was in marked contrast to the four attempts at political union between 1606 and 1689, which all failed owing to a lack of political will in both kingdoms.

The government, headed by Tony Blair, however, blocked all attempts to revise the succession laws, claiming it would raise too many constitutional issues and it was unnecessary at the time.

In the 7th and the 6th centuries BC, the site was taken over by Kylon during the failed Kylonian revolt, and twice by Pisistratus: all attempts directed at seizing political power by coups d ' etat.

When the colonists came to America, their initial attempts at survival included planting crops familiar to them from back home in England.

His few remaining masses ( the story of his having composed two hundred is hardly credible ) and church music in general are comparatively unimportant, except the great St Cecilia Mass ( 1721 ), which is one of the first attempts at the style which reached its height in the great masses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven.

Traffic shaping usually takes place in the Network Interface Card ( NIC ) in user equipment, and attempts to ensure that the cell flow on a VC will meet its traffic contract, i. e. cells will not be dropped or reduced in priority at the UNI.

Unsuccessful attempts at Cnossus were made by both W. J. Stillman and H. Schliemann, and A. J. Evans, coming on the scene in 1893, travelled in succeeding years about the island picking up trifles of unconsidered evidence, which gradually convinced him that greater things would eventually be found.

Some astronomers endeavoured to explain this by parallax, but these attempts were futile, for the motion was at variance with that which parallax would produce.

A drawing of a glider by Sir George Cayley, one of the early attempts at creating an aerodynamic shape.

His attempts to take control of the whole of Alexander's empire led to his defeat and death at the Battle of Ipsus in 301 BC.

The gnutella protocol remains under development and in spite of attempts to make a clean break with the complexity inherited from the old gnutella 0. 4 and to design a clean new message architecture, it is still one of the most successful file-sharing protocols to date.

This plant was originally transported to Kew in phials of clean water and arrived in February, 1849, after several prior attempts to transport seeds and roots failed.

The Boston Barracudas raced in the British League Division Two, ( now the Premier League ) and in 1973 completed a clean sweap winning the League, Knock-out Cup, and Arthur Price won the League Individual Championship, after the New Hammond Beck Road Stadium was sold for re-development in 1988 attempts to secure a new venue failed in the 1990s a team, known as Boston, raced in the Conference League out of King's Lynn

When Bart and Homer return home, Homer attempts to come clean to the family, but all is forgiven with the arrival of Santa's Little Helper who is assumed to be a Christmas present for the whole family.

Preliminary attempts to clean it up fail as they only transfer the mess elsewhere, including a dress, the wall, a pair of ten dollar shoes, a rug, the bed, and then eventually outside.

Moore had been Clay's trainer for a time, but Clay became dissatisfied and left Moore because of Moore's attempts to change his style and his insistence that Clay do dishes and help clean gym floors.

The Supreme Court had already decided unanimously in 1915 in Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio that free speech did not extend to motion pictures, and while there had been token attempts to clean up the movies before, such as when the studios formed the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry ( NAMPI ) in 1916, little had come of the efforts.

Feldman, himself now clean, spoke on the program about his attempts to help Haim kick the habit, and moved him into his house in October 2001.

Although the FIS seemed satisfied with Ghozali's appointment and his attempts to clean up the electoral law, it continued to protest, leading the army to arrest Belhadj, Madani, and hundreds of others.

Lamont attempts to demonstrate this to a politician and several members of the scientific community, but they, seduced by the cheap, presumed clean energy source and unwilling to take Hallam on face-to-face for fear of suffering Lamont's own fate, are unwilling to listen to him.

Then, as it drizzles, Sophie attempts to clean Howl's bedroom and the yard but he does not let her do either, so she starts mending clothes.

Occasionally there would be organized attempts to clean up the Tenderloin, and reformist mayors, such as William Russell Grace and Abram S. Hewitt would authorize raids on saloons and brothels, even those under the protection of " Clubber " Williams, but the effects were generally temporary: prostitutes would decamp to outlying areas, and return when the latest crusade was over.

The measure also led to attempts to clean up the voter registration rolls.

The Scythian attempts to apprehend them before they can get clean away but he is steered in the wrong direction by the Chorus and the comedy ends happily.

The strip attempts at recreating a dirty-realist outlook and a dark cinematic style through fairly clean, realistic lines.

Despite attempts from anti-social people to deface the plaque, the people of Nottingham have vigilantly kept it clean and new-looking, out of respect for the Xylophone Man.

Despite his mother's attempts to clean and bandage the wounds, surgeons in Tallinn later amputated the whole hand.

The Gulf States Regional Center focuses four-state region of Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Missouri and attempts to restore clean rivers and estuaries, conserve wetlands, springs, and natural river systems, protect wildlife populations, and promote sustainable land and water use.

Norton blocked all attempts to install malware on a clean system.

The study found that there was still extensive contamination, after approximately fifteen years during which attempts were made to clean up the town.

Her second autobiography published in 1990 titled The Shape Of Love, dealt with her move to England to dance with the Royal Ballet, her attempts to get a fresh start with her first husband, and her return to American Ballet Theatre with a clean slate and a renewed outlook on life.

As the body attempts to clean up these wear particles ( typically consisting of plastic or metal ) it triggers an autoimmune reaction which causes resorption of living bone tissue.

As he stumbled down the basement stairs, Knyvett reached out his bloodied hand leaving an imprint upon the wall which defied all attempts to wash it away — the marked stone had to be eventually chipped clean.