Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.

Adams depended largely on the dispatches of foreign ambassadors and observers in England, claiming that the reports of such agents had to be accurate because there were no newspapers.

For Mrs. Shaefer -- who had been given a clean bill of health by her own physician at the time she visited Lee -- and her friend were agents for the California Pure Food and Drug Inspection Bureau.

In answering these questions, we need to ask not merely whether Communist troops have crossed over into territories they did not occupy before, and not merely whether disciplined agents of the Cominform are in control of governments from which they were formerly excluded: the success of Communism's war against the West does not depend on such spectacular and definitive conquests.

These agents were to ascertain the difference between English and French goods, and the prices charged the Indians.

-- Vital secrets of Britain's first atomic submarine, the Dreadnought, and, by implication, of the entire United States navy's still-building nuclear sub fleet, were stolen by a London-based soviet spy ring, secret service agents testified today.

Although federal and city narcotic agents sometimes worked together, Sokol continued, rivalries developed when they were `` aiming at the same criminals ''.

Russian tanks and artillery parading through the streets of Havana, Russian intrigue in the Congo, and Russian arms drops in Laos ( using the same Ilyushin transports that were used to carry Communist agents to the Congo ) made it plain once more that the cold war was all of a piece in space and time.

Officeholders were the agents of the people, not their representatives.

This was all done under complete secrecy during the playing season because players were all free agents in those days and they did not want their current club and especially the fans to know they were leaving to play elsewhere the next year.

In an article he submitted for the medical journal The Lancet during World War I, Fleming described an ingenious experiment, which he was able to conduct as a result of his own glass blowing skills, in which he explained why antiseptics were killing more soldiers than infection itself during World War I. Antiseptics worked well on the surface, but deep wounds tended to shelter anaerobic bacteria from the antiseptic agent, and antiseptics seemed to remove beneficial agents produced that protected the patients in these cases at least as well as they removed bacteria, and did nothing to remove the bacteria that were out of reach.

On July 6, the arrival of a force of 300 Pinkerton agents from New York City and Chicago resulted in a fight in which 10 men — seven strikers and three Pinkertons — were killed and hundreds were injured.

The Diamondbacks were considered by some to be the favorite to win the division after spending on the aforementioned free agents ; however, injuries hurt the team's chances of reaching its expected potential.

Angels, especially the archangel Michael, who were depicted as military-style agents of God, came to be shown wearing Late Antique military uniform.

Abbasid agents closed in on Abd al-Rahman and his family while they were hiding in a small village.

The United States government, its allies, and journalists exhaustively studied the possibility that yellow rain attacks had occurred and concluded that the evidence supports the contention that trichothecene mycotoxins were used as biological warfare agents in Afghanistan and in Southeast Asia.

These agents were prepared to spray them down from tanks attached to airplanes over hundreds of miles.

In the First World War, German agents were arrested attempting to inoculate draft animals with anthrax, and they were believed to be responsible for outbreaks of glanders in horses and mules.

SDP polling agents were given special dispensation by the Returning Officer to have placards outside of polling stations to state which one on the ballot papers was the ' real Roy '.

Banda was the world's only source of nutmeg and mace, spices used as flavourings, medicines, preserving agents, that were at the time highly valued in European markets ; sold by Arab traders to the Venetians for exorbitant prices.

The world has been intentionally designed by God as a difficult place, where human beings are forced to make moral decisions, as only in this way can they mature as moral agents.

As with all alkali metals, lithium fires are difficult to extinguish, requiring dry powder fire extinguishers, specifically Class D type ( see Types of extinguishing agents ).

This structural stability means that prions are resistant to denaturation by chemical and physical agents, making disposal and containment of these particles difficult.

" However, such an assassination seemed too difficult, and he decided that since federal agents had become soldiers, it was necessary to strike against them at their command centers.

But these eccentric spies made Robertson aware that handling double agents was going to be a difficult task.

It is sometimes a difficult task to identify which part of the system represents this critical path, and some test tools include ( or can have add-ons that provide ) instrumentation that runs on the server ( agents ) and report transaction times, database access times, network overhead, and other server monitors, which can be analyzed together with the raw performance statistics.

People were encouraged to mirror the website of this unrelated program, as a means of presumably making it more difficult for anti-DeCSS agents to find the " real " DeCSS program.

All bleaching and maturing agents ( with the possible exception of ascorbic acid ) have been banned in the EU, making cake baking a difficult proposition as heat treated flours that mimic the effects of chlorination are to date available only to bulk bakeries.

In contrast to the pulps The Shadow radio drama limited the cast of major characters to The Shadow, Commissioner Weston, and Margo Lane, the last of whom was created specifically for the radio series, as it was believed the abundance of agents would make it difficult to distinguish between characters.

In the first few years of his career Garrett performed under the name of " Leif Per ", however casting agents found the name difficult to pronounce ( it is pronounced the same way as " pair " or " pear ").

Others are more rarely used to release chemical or biological agents either on impact or when over the target area ; designing an appropriate fuse is a difficult task which lies outside the realm of terminal ballistics.

The significance and economic impact of coronaviruses as causative agents of the common cold are hard to assess because, unlike rhinoviruses ( another common cold virus ), human coronaviruses are difficult to grow in the laboratory.

Since the internal contrast is too difficult to measure, external agents such thulium compounds are used to enhance the effect.

Such evidence is frequently obtained using undercover agents, since evidence of a quid pro quo relation difficult to prove.

This transparency has made it difficult for real estate agents, appraisers, and lenders to collect the fees, tipping the balance of power towards the consumers.

Another alternative is to construct dynamic stochastic general equilibrium ( DSGE ) models with heterogeneous agents, which is difficult, but is becoming more common ( Ríos-Rull, 1995 ; Heathcote, Storesletten, and Violante 2009 ; Canova 2007 section 2. 1. 2 ).

The lifestyle led by undercover agents is very different compared to other areas in law enforcement, and it can be quite difficult to reintegrate back into normal duties.

It is difficult to solve for Bayesian equilibria in such a setting because it involves solving for agents ' best-response strategies and for the best inference from a possible strategic lie.

Each level contains a section in which the lights are out, making it difficult to see the enemy agents unless they are in an elevator.

Also, unlike ACE models, it may be difficult to study local interactions between individual agents in DSGE models, which instead focus mostly on the way agents interact through aggregate prices.

Environmentally, they have similar effects as phytoestrogens, making it difficult to clearly separate the action of these two kind of agents in studies done on populations.

The Film Center Studios were popular with non-union producers, because they could turn off the elevator to lock out IATSE union agents, who found it difficult to climb the stairs to the seventh floor main stage.

Regarding the Roman provinces, former misrule and financial plundering is described, committed by Roman government agents and Roman merchants ; Caesar's reforms replaced the quasi-independent Roman governors with those selected by the Imperator and closely supervised, with reduction in taxes ; provincial oppression by private concerns was found more difficult to arrest.