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When Frederick heard that James was preparing to go to war with him, he sent a messenger, Mountainer Pérez de Sosa, to Catalonia in an effort to stir up the barons and cities against James in 1298.

effort and public
they put much effort into public housing.
* 1943 – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.
The third event was a concerted effort to transform some of the dance crazes into dances which could be taught to a wider dance public in the US and Europe.
People acquired power through persuasion, exerted both publicly and privately, public debate, force of will ( often via aggressive flames ), garnering authority and respect by spending much time and effort contributing to the community ( by being a maintainer of a FAQ, for example ; see also Kibo, etc.
On July 1, 2003, Christopher Swain of Portland, Oregon, became the first person to swim the Columbia River's entire length, in an effort to raise public awareness about the river's environmental health.
Because of these differences, corporate lawyers are often consulted in an effort to determine the most appropriate or advantageous state in which to incorporate, and a majority of public companies in the U. S. are Delaware corporations.
Some proponents of school vouchers, including the Sutherland Institute and many supporters of the Utah voucher effort, see it as a remedy for the negative cultural impact caused by under-performing public schools, which falls disproportionately on demographic minorities.
The Government in an effort to structure the public transportation has attempted several time to bring BUS, in around 1979, It was the BUS called CONATRA a contract between the government and association of driver which quickly fail because of sabotage from different factor and poor maintenance.
Analysts should never report material nonpublic information, except in an effort to make that information available to the general public.
Nero enacted a public relief effort as well as large reconstruction projects.
Concurrently he stepped up his effort on LInear B, discovering finally that it was Greek, a revelation to an academic public that had more or less given up on the mysterious script.
It emerged during the campaign that what Lenihan had told friends and insiders in private flatly contradicted his public statements on a controversial effort in 1982 by the then opposition Fianna Fáil to pressure President Hillery into refusing a parliamentary dissolution to then Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald ; Hillery had resolutely rejected the pressure.
* 1938 – Great Depression: In an effort to restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.
" Luckily, many directors recognized the necessity ( and likely the commercial success they would reap ) of supporting the battle against fascism as public opinion lay with the war effort.
In 1995, in an effort to better give back to the community, Eagles Youth Partnership ( EYP ) was formed as a 501 ( c )( 3 ) public charity in the emerging field of sports philanthropy.
Posters were used to influence public opinion about what to eat and what occupations to take, and to change the attitude of support towards the war effort.
By the 1960s there was revived interest in minor league baseball for Toledo, and public official Ned Skeldon led the effort to remodel the Lucas County Fairgrounds stadium into a suitable minor league ballpark.
In an effort to establish a university to serve Brighton, a public meeting was held in December 1911 at the Royal Pavilion in order to discover ways to fund the construction of a university ; the project was halted by World War I, and the money raised was used instead for books for the Municipal Technical College.
The 2009 holiday season impacts from the " Yes, Virginia " special broadcast on the CBS television network on December 11, 2009, were: 1 ) " Yes, Virginia " reached more than 3. 7 million television viewers, 2 ) the associated public relations effort resulted in a substantial lift in overall exposure during Macy's most critical season with 1. 84 billion impressions generated, 3 ) On the night of the show on December 11, 2009, " Yes, Virginia " was Google's No. 1 and No. 4 hottest search terms, 4 ) " Yes, Virginia " made TV Guide's coveted Hot List.
A public genome sequencing effort of cotton was initiated in 2007 by a consortium of public researchers.
The public sector effort continues with the goal to create a high-quality, draft genome sequence from reads generated by all sources.
This public relations effort gave them some recognition for sequencing the cotton genome.
The featured species are California condors ( the wild animal park was the key force in the recovery effort for these birds and this is one of the only places in the world where the public can see them in captivity ) and desert bighorn sheep.

effort and from
As he informs Watson, `` My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.
The actual impelling force which severed me from evangelical effort was of another sort.
Both Secretary of War Baker and Secretary of Navy Daniels devoted much time and effort to the problem of providing reasonably normal and wholesome activities in camp for the millions of men who had been removed from their home environment.
But for the safety of Southeast Asia, and for the sake of the Laotian people -- who would not be well-ruled by either militant minority now engaged in the fighting -- this last big effort to seal that country from the cold war had to be made.
We ran east for about half a mile before we turned back to the road, panting from the effort and soaked with sweat.
How long it will take to show substantial success in this effort will vary greatly from country to country.
Have you evaluated the proper place of advertising and all phases of promotion in your total marketing program -- from the standpoint of effort, money, and effectiveness??
The bitter memory of Russia's exclusion from the Paris Peace Conference and of the West's effort to stamp out Bolshevism at its birth boiled up within him.
Resolved, that we find in this fearful tragedy at Harper's Ferry a reason for more earnest effort to remove the evil of slavery from the whole land as speedily as possible.
Interruptions came largely from the bench, which numerous times rebuked the Attorney General for letting his witnesses run on, though it, too, made no serious effort to choke off the flow.
The time has come for citizens of all faiths to unite in an effort to remove this divisive and nettlesome issue from the political and social life of our nation.
When Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov took it over in 1957 from Georgi Zaroubin, he made a determined effort to change this idea.
`` We have witnessed in this campaign the effort to project Mr. Mitchell as the image of a unity candidate from Washington.
Being convinced that salvation is alone by accepting Christ as Saviour, and being convicted by the Holy Spirit of my lost condition, I do repent of all effort to be saved by any form of good works, and just now receive Jesus as my personal Saviour and salvation as a free gift from Him.
Now Spencer, seeming with effort to shake himself from lethargy, spoke.
Wittkowsky counters that Swift's satiric use of statistical analysis is an effort to enhance his satire that " springs from a spirit of bitter mockery, not from the delight in calculations for their own sake ".
Kiva walls show marks from great fires set within them, which probably required removal of the massive roof-a task which would require significant effort.
* 1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
This move garnered criticism from the left ( for being too tentative in promoting gay rights ) and from the right ( who opposed any effort to allow gays to serve ).
Rep. Don Pilon of Saco has led the effort to get rid of the laws that prohibit automobile dealerships from opening for business on Sundays.

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