Golden Gate Cetacean Research, a non-profit organization focused on research on cetaceans, has developed a photo-identification database enabling the scientists to identify specific porpoise individuals and is trying to ascertain whether a healthier bay has brought their return.

On the other hand, the Talmud ( in Tractate Baba Batra 15a – 16b ) goes to great lengths trying to ascertain when Job actually lived, citing many opinions and interpretations by the leading sages.

" But I did it for six months, basically trying to ascertain whether a Canadian Mental Health Association would be useful in Northern Ontario.

Initially, the Confederates atop the rocks lied flat trying to ascertain through the fog whether the approaching cavalry were their returning scouting party.

Its etymology though is from ' trying ', in the sense of testing, rather than the prefix ' tri -' meaning three.

In his fifteenth year, while trying to decipher some foreign words in the Talmud with the aid of Landau's Dictionary, he conceived the plan of writing a complete lexicon of the Talmud, not having found the etymology of many words in Landau.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

But however we come, finally, to explain and account for the present, the truth we are trying to expose, right now, is that the makers of constitutions and the designers of institutions find it difficult if not impossible to anticipate the behavior of the host of all their enterprises.

It is a matter of trying to sort out an earlier fourth-century Saxon element from the later, fifth-century mainstream of Anglo-Saxon invasions.

And Secretary Rusk, en route to Bangkok, doubtless is trying to make emergency arrangements for the possible entry of Australian or Thai SEATO forces.

Next year is the 80th anniversary of the signing of the treaty between Korea and the United States and experts in Seoul are trying to find the correspondence between Frederick Frelinghuysen, who was Secretary of State in 1883 and 1884, and Gen. Lucius Foote, who was the first minister to Korea.

There is no use trying to `` Explain '' to a 2-year-old.

But it is in the process of so doing because it apparently gives priority to trying to downgrade John F. Kennedy.

What it is trying to do is to protect the little man, too, as well as trying to maintain a flow of fresh meat to all stores, with choice of cut being made by the consumer, not the store.

Red China is trying to do this, and she is not likely ever to succeed.

Jesus, the guy says he is trying.

The safest procedure is to let your builder estimate the size of the unit you need, rather than trying to do this yourself.

There is no better way to waste time than trying to install a furnace in a finished Af closet.

After a few tortuous moments of wondering who `` he '' is, the camera pans across the room to the plaster statue, and we realize that Neitzbohr is trying to redeem himself in the eyes of a mute piece of sculpture.

The study of odd-lot indices is somehow akin to the spectacle of a man trying to outfox his own shadow, what with all observers trying to get on the side of the `` few '' at the same time.

Our Masu is one of the very few architects in Japan who is trying to plan homes around family functions and women's needs.

One of the hardest chores a detective has is hanging around on a city street, trying to make himself inconspicuous, keeping an eye on the entrance of an office building and waiting.

So what I am trying to tell you is the ' why ' -- that is my point -- and that concerns the spirit of the matter.

Coronal loops have become very important when trying to understand the current coronal heating problem.

Instead, it was found more effective when only trying to learn important information.

This is particularly important in renal failure where the kidney is trying to maintain renal perfusion pressure by elevated angiotensin II levels.

" Falk says, " There is nothing more important to an actor than to know that the one person who represents the audience to you, the director, is responding well to what you are trying to do.

Puritans were politically important in England, but it is debated whether the movement was in any way a party with policies and leaders before the early 1640s ; and while Puritanism in New England was important culturally for a group of colonial pioneers in America, there have been many studies trying to pin down exactly what the identifiable cultural component was.

In 1989, Schneider addressed the challenge scientists face trying to communicate complex, important issues without adequate time during media interviews.

Drug dealers are a major concern, although military offensives and police captures of important drug-cartel chiefs have weakened drug cartels trying to settle in the city.

The notion of purification ( cleaning one's soul from all evil things and trying to reach Nirvana and to become immortal in Nirvana ) plays an important role in Buddhism.

An important and unique property of quantum distribution is the ability of the two communicating users to detect the presence of any third party trying to gain knowledge of the key.

* Payipwāt ( or Piapot: " who Knows the Secrets of the Sioux "), also known as " Hole in the Sioux " or Kisikawasan-‘ Flash in the Sky ’, Chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or the Young Dogs with great influence on neighboring Assiniboine, Downstream People, southern groups of the Upstream People and Saulteaux ( Plains Ojibwa ), born 1816, kidnapped as a child by the Sioux, he was freed about 1830 by Plains Cree, significant Shaman, most influential chief of the feared Young Dogs, convinced the Plains Cree to expand west in the Cypress Hills, the last refugee for bison groups, therefore disputed border area between Sioux, Assiniboine, Siksika Kainai and Cree, refused to participate in the raid on a Kainai camp near the present Lethbridge, Alberta, then the Young Dogs and their allies were content with the eastern Cypress Hills to the Milk River, Montana, does not participate at the negotiations on the Treaty 4 of 1874, he and Cheekuk, the most important chief of the Plains Ojibwa in the Qu ' Appelle area, signed on 9 September 1875 the treaty only as preliminary contract, tried with the chiefs of the River Cree Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Mistahi-maskwa (" Big Bear ") to erect a kind of Indian Territory for all the Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa and Assiniboine-as Ottawa refused, he asked 1879-80 along with Kiwisünce ( cowessess-' Little Child ') and the Assiniboine for adjacent reserves in the Cypress Hills, Payipwāt settled in a reserve about 37 miles northeast of Fort Walsh, Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Papewes (‘ Lucky Man ’) asked successfully for reserves near the Assiniboine or Payipwāt-this allowed the Cree and Assiniboine to preserve their autonomy-because they went 1881 in Montana on bison hunting, stole Absarokee horses and alleged cattle killed, arrested the U. S. Army the Cree-Assiniboine group, disarmed and escorted them back to Canada-now unarmed, denied rations until the Cree and Assiniboine gave up their claims to the Cypress Hills and went north-in the following years the reserves changed several times and the tribes were trying repeated until to the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 to build an Indian Territory, Payipwāt remained under heavy guard, until his death he was a great spiritual leader, therefore Ottawa deposed Payipwāt on 15 April 1902 as chief, died in April 1908 on Piapot Reserve, Saskatchewan )

:;… when the batting team needs to score runs quickly: In situations where the batting team must score quickly in order to win or press an advantage ( because, for example, a limited-overs innings is ending soon ), slowing down the scoring becomes more important than trying to dismiss the batsmen.

Second, it ignored the problem of quiescence, trying to only evaluate a position that is at the end of an exchange of pieces or other important sequence of moves (' lines ').

Price is, therefore, a critically important element of the choices available to businesses in trying to attract demand for their products.

Sam is found in a language school trying to learn French and Spanish, to " be important ", and is shocked when he sees the article.

A dilemma arises from trying to meet important planning objectives when using the grid: pedestrianism, cost efficiency and environmental responsiveness.

Today, the city council is actively soliciting murals -- one of the most recent is of the storied Castle — and trying to attract businesses and tourists to keep people in town, important as the population of Woods County has been dropping since the 1930s.

This is an important consideration when trying to build a rail transit system into a built-up urban environment, such as Toronto.

Since it is the only outlet to the Persian Gulf, its capture was important in delivering humanitarian aid to the rest of the country, and also to stop the flow of operations trying to break the naval blockade against Iraq.

While not a member of the main Titans team himself, he appeared as a supporting character in the episode " Winner Take All ", and fought Robin, trying to convince him if winning is really that important.

This was ultimately rejected since Xander was thought to be too important to the series, and his death occurring so late in the season would leave little time to deal with it correctly, and that throughout the series ' run, Xander was the one character who never wavered, and to punish that characteristic with death would send a message the staff wasn't trying to convey.

The usually caustic Dorothy Parker had nothing but praise: " I think, and I'm trying to talk calmly, that Barnaby and his friends and oppressors are the most important additions to American Arts and Letters in Lord knows how many years.

Government transparency is important because it allows the public to be informed about what the government is working on as well as the policies they are trying to implement.

Willibrord tried this while on a Carolingian-sponsored mission into Frisia with the express purpose of trying to convert the pagan Frisians living there in the hope that, once they had converted to Christianity, the Franks could gain control of the important trade port Dorestad, which they had up to that point been unable to do.