His successor Pope Boniface VIII sent for him, and finally, despite the former pope's desperate attempts to escape, captured him and imprisoned him in the castle of Fumone near Ferentino in Campagna where, after languishing for 10 months in infected air, he died on 19 May 1296.

Each film traces the evolution of the living dead epidemic in the United States and humanity's desperate attempts to cope with it.

Such an outpost far from Europe generally only attracted the most desperate and avaricious, and as such the feeble attempts at Christianisation only strained relations with Ternate's Muslim ruler.

This internal dialogue is mixed with descriptions of Jessie's more and more desperate attempts to get out of the handcuffs, first by trying to break the headboard she was cuffed to then by trying to slip off the bed and push the bed to the bureau where the keys were placed.

Richie is a clumsy, pompous dimwit who attempts to make himself out as being much higher in social status than he actually is, and is both deranged and desperate, as well as being obsessed with sex.

The final stages of the war involved increasingly desperate attempts by the Idirans to stave off their defeat, the withdrawal of the Homomdan from the Idiran side ( after suing for a separate peace with the Culture ), and the confinement of the Idirans to limited, carefully watched zones.

She complains that, despite increasingly desperate attempts to capture a husband via intensive flirtation at hurling matches, wakes, and pattern days, the young men insist on ignoring her in favor of late marriages to much older women.

It was during the desperate German attempts to bring reserve units to the front that men of the Das Reich SS Panzer Division massacred over 600 inhabitants of the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in central France, in retaliation for partisan attacks in the area.

Throughout, the play explores Catherine's fear of following in her father's footsteps, both mathematically and mentally and her desperate attempts to stay in control.

With the hanging of Hamiora, November 10, 1869, and the conclusion of Fairweather ’ s desperate attempts first to prevent and then to mitigate it, the book ends.

For ten years, Beckmann lived in poverty in self-imposed exile in Amsterdam, failing in his desperate attempts to obtain a visa for the US.

In the play the characters conceal, blame, resent, regret, accuse and deny in an escalating cycle of conflict with occasional desperate and half-sincere attempts at affection, encouragement and consolation.

He attempts hypnosis on a nun, who kicks him in his genitals, buys another pheromone spray ( Pig Piss ) which only attracts a blind woman's guide dog and makes a desperate approach to Millie Tant, who repays him with yet another vicious kick.

Directed by James Furman and written by David Turner, the 60-minute episode tracks in detail the events of Wednesday 30 January 1889, at Mayerling as well as the following few days-The discovery of the dead bodies, the breaking of news to Rudolf's family, the desperate attempts to cover up, what really happened-even to the Emperor and Empress-and the secret smuggling of Marie Vetsera's body away from Mayerling before scandal can erupt.

Her desperate attempts to restart her film career, combined with her increasing dependence on alcohol and the pressures brought to bear by her mother, result in a complete nervous breakdown.

In September, having run out of food and water, his desperate army made several unsuccessful attempts to breakout.

Such an outpost far from Europe generally only attracted the most desperate and avaricious, and as such the feeble attempts at Christianisation only strained relations with Ternate's Muslim ruler.

After this, Khrushchev made many desperate attempts to reconstitute the Sino-Soviet alliance, but Mao considered it useless and denied any proposal.

However, as M. J. repeatedly rejects Bench's advances, Hydro-Man becomes even more desperate in his attempts and incensed against Spider-Man as a competitor.

Heedless to all threats against herself, left alone as the only Western woman in an absolute and anti-Christian monarchy at war with the West, beset with raging fevers and nursing a tiny baby that her husband had not yet seen, she rushed from office to office in desperate attempts to keep her husband alive and win his freedom.

His friends were equally active in the desperate attempts to get his work published, where he offended or felt cheated by a succession of publishers who found his work either unsellable or unpublishable.

Nor did it start with the desperate and heroic attempts of the people of Palestine to resist the Zionist occupation of their ancestral homeland.

As the Imperial army got tied up in desperate attempts to eliminate the Swedish bridgehead, the Swedish cavalry with no opposition or attention from the enemy was able to cross the river 10 km south of the Imperial left wing.

As the pilot fights for control, Vlady in the back opens the brief case nuke and attempts to disarm it but to his horror the bomb reactivates and Vlady leaps from the chopper in a desperate and unsuccessful attempt to escape the blast. The bomb detonates and the helicopter and Vlady are vaporized as the shock waves slam into the aircraft carrier that Frank's team used causing it to capsize sending helicopters, jets, and people falling off the side.

In a desperate attempt to prevent armed battle and to avert the resulting political crisis, U. S. President Andrew Jackson consulted his Attorney General Benjamin Butler for his legal opinion on the border dispute.

The States of Holland sent their highest official, the Grand Pensionary Adriaan Pauw to London in a last desperate attempt to prevent war, but in vain: English demands had become so extreme that no self-respecting state could meet them.

During the final days of World War II in Europe, Captain America and Bucky were assigned to England to prevent desperate Nazi efforts at sabotaging Allied supply bases there.

The Royal Navy made desperate efforts to board the ships to prevent the sinkings, but the German crews had spent the idle months preparing for the order, welding bulkhead doors open, laying charges in vulnerable parts of the ships, and quietly dropping important keys and tools overboard so valves could not be shut.

He cut off all access to Antwerp from the sea by constructing a bridge of boats across the Scheldt from Calloo to Oordam, in spite of the desperate efforts of the besieged townspeople to prevent its completion.

The Doctor is worried about the wisdom of such a meeting in the current circumstances, but elsewhere the Master is so desperate to see the event take place he uses mind-control over Stephenson's young aide, Luke Ward, telling him to kill anyone who tries to prevent it.

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann commented: " If you ‘ re that desperate to prevent criticism of some Olympic games, you shouldn ‘ t detain a noted commentator and write her scripts for her.

A posting from a person claiming to be David Higginbottom, Prentice's campaign manager in the last election, said, " It is unfortunate that at a time when Conservatives need to be working together to prevent what is a desperate power play by the opposition to seize control of our democratically elected government, that a site like this would be created.

But I believe that the rulers of the German people are deliberately and cynically preparing to hurl them into a wicked and a desperate war of conquest ... The Germans cannot prevent that war, because they do not believe it is coming.

It was on these expeditions that he first became aware of the desperate struggle for survival many animal species were facing in the wild, and he became convinced that zoos had a responsibility to try to prevent further decline and extinctions.

In a final desperate attempt to overcome his drug addiction, partially prompted by his inability to obtain drugs through his usual channels ( the authorities had imposed a strict monitoring of the medical institutions in order to prevent illicit drug distribution during the 1980 Olympics ), he switched back to alcohol and went on a prolonged drinking binge ( apparently consuming copious amounts of champagne due to a prevalent misconception at the time that it was better than vodka at countering the effects of drug withdrawal ).

Do not reply .” Attempting to comply, Streaker is ambushed at the Morgran transfer point and pursued by opposing fleets of fanatical alien races — all of them wanting the cluster co-ordinates, and all of them desperate to prevent their enemies from getting them.

It was against such a background of despondency that Muir, in a desperate attempt to prevent an irreversible set-back to the reform movement, left London for France in an eleventh hour bid to persuade the French leaders to spare the life of the King.

After the particle is stolen by the Borg, Admiral Sela forges a temporary and desperate alliance with Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Federation and Chancellor Martok of the Klingon Empire in order to prevent the Borg from using the Omega particle to fuel an invasion of the Alpha Quadrant.

* In the BBC TV series Sherlock episode " The Reichenbach Fall ", the Diogenes Club is shown ; Watson goes there, desperate to see Mycroft Holmes, gets into trouble for talking, and is briskly and not too gently escorted to the Stranger's Room by two muffle-shoed bouncers who hold a cloth pad to his mouth to prevent further noise.

The Dutch were desperate to prevent a second English blockade of their ports after the first was broken off by the English only for lack of supplies.

Koshi is an admirable character: she tried ( in vain ) to save the Empress from the soldiers who came to arrest her and even blocked their way in a desperate attempt to prevent them from taking away the Empress.

Stalin, on the other hand, argued in 1933 that the further the country would move forward in constructing socialism, the more acute forms of struggle will be used by the doomed remnants of exploiter classes in their last desperate efforts-and therefore, political repression was necessary to prevent them from succeeding in their presumed goal of destroying the Soviet Union.

As the Enterprise crew ( aided by Columbia ) race to prevent the impending destruction of the Enterprise ( resulting from sabotage in the previous episode by a group of Klingon-Augment hybrids ), Dr. Phlox fights a desperate battle against time to come up with a cure for the virus before a Klingon task force arrives to stop the diseases by eradicating the colony.

Growing increasingly desperate, Diabolico considered killing Impus himself to prevent him losing his Star Power, but lost the chance when the other demons walked in on him.

Anita, desperate to save her life and seething with hatred, heads for Verea, seeking to kill Halfas and thus prevent her own death.

The human forces engage in a desperate chase to prevent the Starflyer from escaping the Commonwealth.

However, the land is under threat from development and villagers desperate to preserve their countryside are fighting hard to prevent any further development.