Many of the later sources may also have formed part of a propaganda effort designed to create a history for the people of Ireland that could bear comparison with the mythological descent of their British invaders from the founders of Rome that was promulgated by Geoffrey of Monmouth and others.

* 1944 – World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four battles with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105, 000 Allied casualties.

The great feature of Urban V's reign was the effort to return the papacy to Rome and to suppress its powerful rivals for the temporal sovereignty there.

The bulls were easily acquired because the papal nuncio was under orders from Rome to please the English in an effort to avert a final breach.

* Rome is threatened by Attila but not attacked due to a last-minute effort by Leo I.

* Hannibal marches northwards on the city of Rome in a belated and unsuccessful effort to capture the city.

* Rome process, an international effort to define and categorize the functional gastrointestinal disorders

The former asserts that Scipio was unsuccessful in his effort to obtain the province, and, offended by the rejection, remained after the end of his consulship, in a private capacity at Rome.

Prince Gaius, in an effort to rid Rome of Marcellus, banishes Marcellus to the command of the Roman garrison at Minoa, a port city in southern Palestine.

The greatest irony was that if the VI Corps main effort had continued on the Valmontone axis on May 26 and the days following, Clark could undoubtedly have reached Rome more quickly than he was able to do by the route northwest from Cisterna.

According to Tacitus, upon hearing news of the fire, Nero rushed back to Rome to organize a relief effort, which he paid for from his own funds.

The Senate of Rome recognized the effort made in Cyprus and offered him a reception in the city, an extraordinary praetorship, and other privileges, all of which he stubbornly refused as unlawful honours.

Salt, wheat ( grown in vast quantity in North Africa in area literally desertified by the effort ), and even water ( carried by the massive aqueducts which stand to this day in many parts of Europe ) were however controlled by the central government in Rome, along with many other functions of a military dictatorship-such as the making of denarius ( Roman coins ), which took place in massive state factories.

In 1859, after Bologna had been annexed to Piedmont, the Mortara parents made another effort to recover their son, but he had been taken to Rome.

Ecclesiastical historians have claimed that in the last years of Emperor Philip the Arab ( reigned 244 – 249 ), during otherwise undocumented festivities to commemorate the millennium of the founding of Rome ( traditionally in 753 BC, putting the date about 248 ), the fury of the Alexandrian mob rose to a great height, and when one of their poets prophesied a calamity, they committed bloody outrages on the Christians, whom the authorities made no effort to protect.

Tait repeated his World Championships double Gold effort at Rome in 1998 riding Ready Teddy.

Paul K. Davis sees its importance as the " Carthaginian defeat ended the attempt to reinforce Hannibal, dooming his effort in Italy, and Rome was able to establish dominance over Spain.

This resulted in the adoption of the Rome Declaration on World Food Security in which member states stated to " pledge our political will and our common and national commitment to achieving food security for all and to an ongoing effort to eradicate hunger in all countries, with an immediate view to reducing the number of undernourished people to half their present level no later than 2015.

However, he did help individuals to avoid persecution, and he helped to free Rome from all German military bases in an effort to discourage Allied bombing of the city.

Lengthy telegrams asking for instructions were sent to Rome, but there was no effort to move the ship closer to the presumed crash site or otherwise begin a search.

However, Niall Brennan tells us that Dr Mannix made a mistake with his public association with Wren as it damaged the Catholic Church, and: " He ( Wren ) tried hard but was never successful in buying the Archbishop as he bought politicians ", and describes how Mannix refused Wren's contribution of most of a £ 50, 000 testimonial at Mannix's departure for the USA and Rome in 1920: " It was the last effort to wrap a tentacle around the Archbishop ; and it failed ".

Two Byzantine fleets were destroyed near Naples in 542, and in 546, Belisarius personally commanded 200 ships against the Gothic fleet that blockaded the mouths of the Tiber, in an unsuccessful effort to relieve Rome.

Willys-Overland and Ford, under the direction of Charles E. Sorensen ( Vice-President of Ford during World War II ), produced about 640, 000 Jeeps towards the war effort, which accounted for approximately 18 % of all the wheeled military vehicles built in the U. S. during the war.

In an effort to conceal the fact that they played in a stadium built and decorated for another team, the stadium grounds crew was assigned to make the stadium more Jet-friendly during Jets games by putting up green banners and placing the Jets ' logo over the Giants '.

Giorgio Vasari coined the term " Gothic " in an effort to describe, particularly architecture, that he found objectionable, supposedly saying " it is as if the Goths built it ".

The end product of this effort is what the industry terms as-built drawings, or more simply, “ as built .” The requirement for providing them is a norm in construction contracts.

This would be the first construction effort of a besieging army, built soon after a fortress or city had been invested.

In after-dinner conversation at his home near Versailles, Laboulaye, an ardent supporter of the Union in the American Civil War, is supposed to have said: " If a monument should rise in the United States, as a memorial to their independence, I should think it only natural if it were built by united effort — a common work of both our nations.

As part of a futile effort to have Philadelphia named the permanent national capital, Pennsylvania built a presidential palace several blocks away, but Washington declined to move there.

In an effort to compensate for the tilt, the engineers built upper floors with one side taller than the other.

In an effort to further improve trade, Darius built canals, underground waterways and a powerful navy.

As part of this effort, the first modern concrete apartment block, the Unité d ' Habitation of Corbusier, was built in Marseille in 1947 – 52.

The first known effort to harness the waters was in 1759, when Daniel Joncaire built a small canal above the falls to power his sawmill.

The mission has begun the 1000 Wells project, an effort to have a thousand new wells built throughout Africa.

:" The cooperation that was built up with Canada during the war was an amalgam compounded of diverse elements of which the air and land routes to Alaska, the Canol project, and the CRYSTAL and CRIMSON activities were the most costly in point of effort and funds expended.

What supporters of Chinese reunification do oppose is desinicization inherent in the foreign Communist ideology built into the system as seen during the Cultural Revolution, along with the effort to emphasize a Taiwanese identity as separate from a Chinese one.

After the war the T111 contributed heavily to the rebuilding effort in Central and Eastern Europe and a memorial was built at Magadan, Siberia for its exploits in the Far East of the USSR.

It was only with great effort in the 1950s and 1960s that Verrazzano's name and reputation as the European discoverer of the harbour was re-established during an effort to have the newly built Narrows bridge named after him.

The first Seedling Mile was built in 1914 west of Malta, Illinois, but after years of experience the LHA began a design effort for a road section that could handle traffic 20 years into the future.

A successful rescue effort was mounted, but the only homes that awaited the Naskapis were the shacks that they built for themselves on the edge of Pearce Lake, near the railroad station, with scavenged and donated materials.

The center was built in 1996-through a joint effort by Midland College, and by leaders of Fort Stockton education, business and government-as a means to enhance higher education and workforce development in this part of West Texas.

In September 1942 the Pantex Ordnance Plant was built on of southwestern Carson County land, to pack and load shells and bombs in support of the World War II effort.

The London Borough of Hillingdon's Civic Centre was built in Uxbridge High Street in 1973, as part of an effort to unite the services of the council, which had formed in 1965 with the merger of the Municipal Borough of Uxbridge, Ruislip-Northwood Urban District, Hayes and Harlington Urban District and Yiewsley and West Drayton Urban District.

In the rebuilding effort, the city closed the main street through downtown to traffic and built the Downtown Promenade in 1972 ( expanded in 1978 ).

So under a joint use agreement with the military, the Los Angeles Department of Airports, now called Los Angeles World Airports, built a 9, 000 square foot ( 800 m² ) terminal on leased land that opened in 1971, creating present day LA / Palmdale Regional Airport which the City of Palmdale has taken control of in an effort to establish reliable air service in the region.