In the most confidential whispers ambassadors told of techniques they had tried to bring Rooney around -- friendly persuasion, groveling abasement, pressure subtly exerted through other powerful congressmen, tales of heartbreak and penury among a threadbare diplomatic corps.

He leaned on the wheel, clutching it, staring into the sunlight, and tried to bring order into his thoughts.

Thomas Jefferson had tried to bring a French mechanic ( almost certainly Blanc ) and his methods to America in 1785, but the project never went anywhere.

Faced with a vacancy, Disraeli and Derby tried yet again to bring Gladstone into the government.

" Signal guns were fired to bring in the foraging parties and picquets as the French and Bavarian troops tried to draw into battle-order to face the unexpected threat.

Capital punishment was abolished in 1956, though the last person to be executed was in 1940 ( The current president Porfirio " Pepe " Lobo has tried to bring it back ).

Almost all of Haganah's armoured vehicles had been destroyed, the blockade was in full operation, and hundreds of Haganah members who had tried to bring supplies into the city were killed.

Nevertheless, with the aid of his " capellanus " or chaplain, Hildebrand, destined to be Pope Gregory VII, he tried to bring about civil and religious order.

Growers tried to bring this bee into other growing locales, to no avail.

Wilson tried to bring labor and management together, but when management refused, he had Congress pass the Adamson Act in September 1916, which avoided the strike by imposing an 8-hour workday in the industry ( at the same pay as before ).

He unsuccessfully tried to bring Armenia into closer contact with Rome.

However, he was not without supporters ; Deutsche Zeitungs music critic Theodor Helm, and famous conductors such as Arthur Nikisch and Franz Schalk constantly tried to bring his music to the public, and for this purpose proposed ' improvements ' for making Bruckner's music more acceptable to the public.

In June 1960, Nasser tried to establish economic reforms that would bring the Syrian economy more in line with the exceedingly strong Egyptian public sector.

According to a letter to the Empress Pulcheria collected among the letters of Leo I, Hilarius apologized for not delivering to her the pope's letter after the synod, but owing to Dioscurus of Alexandria, who tried to hinder his going either to Rome or to Constantinople, he had great difficulty in making his escape in order to bring to the pontiff the news of the result of the council.

During the crisis concerning the Exclusion Bill in 1680, Charles at first invited William to come to England to bolster the king's position against the exclusionists, then withdrew his invitation — after which Lord Sunderland also tried unsuccessfully to bring William over but now to put pressure on Charles.

Schoenewolf later clarified that " No person is better off enslaved, obviously ... What I tried to say, before my words were twisted by that reporter, is that despite the clear and obvious evil of that practice, we tend to forget that many of the enslaved people had been first been sold into bondage by their fellow countrymen ; so coming to America did bring about some eventual good.

Al later states that while they had tried to bring Sam back during this " leap ", they were unable to do so, leaving Sam forced to continue leaping until the team can figure out how to bring him back permanently.

* Victor, the comes who tried to bring the Batavian reserve battalion into action.

After the Barbadians scored an own goal to bring the scoreline level at 2 – 2, Grenada in turn tried to score in either net while Barbados defended both goals for the final three minutes of the match.

With James ’ s intention to form an alliance with the Ulster O ' Donnells of Tyreconnell against the MacDonalds, the English became distrustful of the Scottish king ’ s motives and they themselves tried to bring James the Fat to England.

Hyperbolos tried to bring about the ostracism of one of this pair, but Nicias and Alcibiades combined their influence to induce the people to expel Hyperbolos instead.

She used it to bring in an army of villains from Duckburg and St. Canard, as well as a brainwashed Phantom Blot, and tried to seize both cities so she could have all of Scrooge McDuck's assets.

I have tried earnestly and sincerely, with a deep prayer in my heart, to bring a message to the world, one which will reach, perhaps, millions.

A wide ranging investigation rolled up many additional irredentist youths, and the fifth column that the Black Hand and Serbian Military Intelligence had tried to organize was eliminated.

Mackal tried, unsuccessfully, to raise funds for additional trips to Africa.

After his journey to the Alhambra, Escher tried to improve upon the art works of the Moors using geometric grids as the basis for his sketches, which he then overlaid with additional designs, mainly animals such as birds and lions.

Edward I had tried to introduce an additional duty on wool, but this unpopular maltolt, or " unjust exaction ", was soon abandoned.

Soldiers involved in the violations have been tried and sentenced to prison, and additional court cases are pending on other persons who engaged in such violations.

Land conservation advocates have long tried to enact additional tax incentives for landowners to donate easements, above the federal charitable deduction ( and state tax deduction in states that conform to federal tax process ).

Nintendo reserved a large part of NES game revenue for itself by limiting most third-party publishers to only five games per year on its systems ( some companies tried to get around this by creating additional company labels like Konami's Ultra Games label ).

For since well-nigh all the people of Greece had come together and formed themselves in opposing lines, there was no one who did not suppose that if a battle were fought, those who proved victorious would be the rulers and those who were defeated would be their subjects ; but the deity so ordered it that both parties set up a trophy as though victorious and neither tried to hinder those who set them up, that both gave back the dead under a truce as though victorious, and both received back their dead under a truce as though defeated, and that while each party claimed to be victorious, neither was found to be any better off, as regards either additional territory, or city, or sway, than before the battle took place ; but there was even more confusion and disorder in Greece after the battle than before.

Payphone providers have sometimes tried to reverse the decline in usage by offering additional services such as SMS and Internet access, thus making their phone booths into Internet kiosks.

Crick tried to get Wilkins to continue with additional molecular modeling efforts, but Wilkins did not take this approach.

This lost opportunity held up McClellan for two additional weeks while he tried to convince the U. S. Navy to bypass the Confederates ' big guns at Yorktown and Gloucester Point and ascend the York River to West Point and outflank the Warwick Line.

Dayton was reluctant to go along with the team's Arden Hills proposal because it would cost a total $ 1. 1 billion, including an additional $ 131 million for road improvements, and later tried to make a push to have the stadium built on the site of the Linden Hills farmers market in downtown Minneapolis.

On November 23, 2006, the Saskatchewan Party tried to make a political issue about the provincial government trying to reclaim money from tobacco companies for the additional strain smokers placed on the health care system.

As part of that plan, the university has constructed additional dorms and has tried to make campus life more enjoyable.

This was in spite of the fact that " he Statute of Anne 1710 tried to limit this by declaring that all published works would get a copyright term of fourteen years, renewable once if the author was alive, and that all works already published ... would get a single term of twenty-one additional years.

When it became clear that the government was unwilling to entertain a further prisoner exchange given the experience of the kidnapping of Peter Lorenz two years earlier, the RAF tried to exert additional pressure by hijacking the Lufthansa aeroplane Landshut on October 13 with the help of the allied Palestinian group PFLP.

At the end of the JLS performance, an additional approximately 7, 000 largely ticket-less fans tried to force themselves into the venue before the Sugababes could start their act, and the police were overwhelmed.

A number of about 40 Jewish men were killed by the Nazis in a barn belonging to Bronisław Śleszyński, followed by a group of an estimated 300 additional Jewish victims with families locked later that day in the same barn, which was then set on fire by Polish men ( some tried after the war ) in the presence of Nazi German gendarmes.

The winning team earned a chance to win up to an additional $ 250 by playing the " Lightning Round ", in which the civilian contestant on the prevailing team tried to guess five passwords within 60 seconds from clues given by his / her celebrity partner.

He noted that in addition to a metric field there could be additional degrees of freedom along a path between two points in a manifold, and he tried to exploit this by introducing a basic method for comparison of local size measures along such a path, in terms of a gauge field.

When Del Shannon released a cover version of " From Me to You " on Bigtop Records in June, Vee-Jay tried to stimulate more interest in the original, both by placing magazine ads and by sending out additional promotional copies of the 45 stamped with the words " The Original Hit ".

He tried his hand as a lyricist in such works as His Majesty, a comic opera in the Gilbert and Sullivan vein, with music by Alexander Mackenzie, a libretto by F. C. Burnand and additional lyrics by Adrian Ross, presented at the Savoy Theatre in 1897.

Female cadets were accepted from approximately 1978 and although the service flavour and well tried and tested services training methods and character was retained, additional training was introduced by units, which were desired by them and the community supporters.

In 1987, he was extradited to the United States, where he was tried and sentenced to life without parole, plus an additional 135 years.