The attempt had failed because, when endeavoring to cut his wrists, this murderer of seven women had fainted at the sight of blood.

The attempt failed: the animal is now dead.

This first attempt at an amendment failed to pass, falling short of the required two-thirds majority on June 15, 1864, in the House of Representatives.

When the Confederate attempt to defend Petersburg failed, the Confederate army retreated but was pursued and defeated, which resulted in Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.

* In 1990 12 soldiers were sent to Trinidad after a failed coup attempt by radical Black Muslims against the constitutionally elected government headed by Prime Minister A. N. R.

After an attempt to arrest the queen herself failed, Joan called Sforza who defeated the Aragonese milices near Castel Capuano in Naples.

Andronikos III's attempt to make up for this setback by annexing Bulgarian Thrace failed in 1332, when he was defeated by the new Bulgarian Emperor Ivan Alexander at Rousokastron.

After a failed attempt to invade Athens, Atlantis sank into the ocean " in a single day and night of misfortune ".

* 1955 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.

This attempt failed, but gained him the support of Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Hayyay, lord of Carmona, and a cousin of the Sevillan lord, Ahmad ibn Maslama.

After a failed health care reform attempt, Republicans won control of Congress in 1994, for the first time in forty years.

As such he was the principal field commander for the failed airborne attempt to bridge the Rhine at Arnhem and the Allied Rhine crossing.

In the then Victorian Colony ( now State of Victoria in Australia ), the ( Royal ) Victorian Bowling Association was formed in 1880 and The Scottish Bowling Association was established in 1892, although there had been a failed attempt in 1848 by 200 Scottish clubs.

His attempt to devise a constitution in 1818 that would legitimize his government failed, as did his effort to generate stable funding for the new administration.

Many had perished from scurvy, while others ( including Captain Arnaud ) died during a failed attempt to sail after a passing ship to fetch help.

According to accounts in the Zuo Zhuan and Shiji, Confucius departed his homeland in 497 BC after his support to the failed attempt of dismantling the fortified city walls of the powerful Ji, Meng, and Shu families.

A subsequent attempt by the government to re-establish control over the rebellious islands by force failed, and presently the African Union is brokering negotiations to effect a reconciliation.

He was once more defeated at Kish, and again fled to Elam where he died in exile after one final failed attempt to raise a revolt against Assyria in his homeland, Bit-Yâkin in 700 BC.

These include the largest, the Swiss People's Party ( SVP ), the Christian Democratic People's Party ( CVP ), represented in the Federal Council or cabinet by Doris Leuthard ( in 2011 ), and the Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland ( BDP ), which is a spliter of the SVP created after a failed attempt to expel Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf from the SVP.

In 1933, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was fatally wounded in Miami, Florida during a failed assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Co-emperor alongside his brothers, his short reign saw the beginnings of conflict emerge between the sons of Constantine the Great, and his attempt to exert his perceived rights of primogeniture ended up causing his death in a failed invasion of Italy in 340.

As punishment for a failed assassination attempt against him, Harkonnen forces Feyd to single-handedly slaughter all the female slaves who serve as Feyd's lovers.

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* 1989 – 1989 Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d ' état.

In the early first decade of the 21st century, campus-wide debate focused on a Board of Trustees recommendation that Greek organizations become " substantially coeducational "; this attempt to the change the Greek system eventually failed.

* Made in Heaven, a 1987 film which concerns two souls who cross paths in Heaven and then attempt to reconnect once they are reborn on Earth.

In an attempt to highlight his stands on key Reagan Era foreign policy initiatives, Kemp traveled in September 1987 to Costa Rica, Honduras and El Salvador to lobby the presidents of those nations against the Arias Peace Plan-a peace accord US conservatives felt too conciliatory to Central American communists.

In April 1987, President Chun made a declaration in an attempt to overpower the opposition that measures would be taken to protect the current constitution at the end of his term, instead of contemplating constitutional reform that would call for direct election of the president.

" After an alleged attempt to overthrow President Momoh in March 1987, more than 60 senior government officials were arrested, including Vice-President Francis Minah, who was removed from office, convicted for plotting the coup, and executed by hanging in 1989 along with 5 others.

She has famously been quoted since as stating that she has " no memory of this tour " due to her increasing dependency on the tranquillizer Klonopin, prescribed in ever increasing amounts by a psychiatrist between 1987 and 1994 in an attempt to keep Nicks from regressing to her former abuse of cocaine.

Prone to self-harm, in 1948 Foucault allegedly undertook a failed suicide attempt, for which his father sent him to see the psychiatrist Jean Delay ( 1907 – 1987 ) at the Hôpital Sainte-Anne.

An industry-group called the Network Computing Forum formed ( March 1987 ) in an ( ultimately unsuccessful ) attempt to reconcile the two network-computing environments.

Wetton and Downes ' attempt to restart the group in 1987 with guitarist Scott Gorham ( formerly of Thin Lizzy ) and drummer Michael Sturgis ( ex-a-ha ) fizzled when they were unable to land a worldwide recording deal.

The January 19, 1987 issue of Broadcasting & Cable featured a trade advertisement promoting another five-day-a-week revival attempt in syndication, again with Rayburn as host.

During the Slippery When Wet Tour in 1987, Jon Bon Jovi's attempt to give it his all during live shows and the tour's exhausting schedule greatly strained his vocal cords, and he began receiving steroid shots to help him sing.

In 1981 Iran supported an attempt to overthrow the Bahraini government, in 1983 expressed political support for Shi ' ites who bombed Western embassies in Kuwait, and in 1987 Iranian pilgrims rioted at poor living conditions and treatment during the Hajj ( pilgrimage ) in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and were consequently massacred.

By the early 1990s, a new leadership had emerged on the Shankill Road following the killing of powerful South Belfast Brigadier and the UDA's Deputy Commander John McMichael in 1987 by a booby-trap car bomb planted by the IRA ; less than three months later, the Supreme Commander Andy Tyrie resigned after an attempt was made on his life.

The first stages towards deregulation started in 1987 with Braathens SAFE being permitted to compete with SAS on the Oslo – Bergen and Western Norway – Trondheim – Bodø – Tromsø route, plus once daily Oslo – Trondheim – Bodø, as well as Tromsø – Longyearbyen, in an attempt to increase domestic competition.

Minor clashes had been occurring since 1987, and when the scale of unrest grew, Hu responded with the deployment of some 1, 700 People's Armed Police into Lhasa in February 1989 in an attempt to warn against further disturbance.

* Matewan, Director: John Sayles, 1987 – critically acclaimed account of a coal mine-workers ' strike and attempt to unionize in 1920 in Matewan, a small town in the hills of West Virginia.

He had previously made an attempt, but it failed as the crowd was not prepared for the acid house style until 1987 when the party was successful.

Dennett comments on this issue, Fodor " attempt to make these irreducible realities acceptable to the physical sciences by grounding them ( somehow ) in the ' syntax ' of a system of physically realized mental representations " ( Dennett 1987, 345 ).

* The Monarchist, attempt at quarterly in 1973, but bi-annual until 1984 ( incl ), once in 1985, and 1987.

The first email attempt was successfully sent out on 14 September 1987 with the contents " Across the Great Wall, we can reach every corner in the world " ( 越過長城 ， 走向世界 ).

In an attempt to establish his legal rights as head of the Royal House of France, Henri launched an unsuccessful court case ( 1987 – 1989 ) in which he challenged his rival Louis-Alphonse, Duke of Anjou's right to use the undifferenced Royal Arms.

In 1987, Norman Norwood, of Arkansas, sued SOF magazine, because of injuries he suffered during a murder attempt, by two men hired via a " Gun for Hire " advert in the magazine.

Howser attempted a comeback during spring training of 1987 with Kansas City, but quickly found he was physically too weak and abandoned the attempt in late February, when Billy Gardner took over.

During 1987, in an attempt to remain relevant and survive, Gagne renewed a relationship with Memphis based promoter Jerry Jarrett and the CWA and even allowed Mid-Southern territory legend Jerry " The King " Lawler to win the AWA World Title from Curt Hennig.

O ' Donoghue was finally elected to the Dáil on his fourth attempt at the 1987 general election.

At a well known 1987 Conference from Gothenburg Sweden, Kenneth Kitchen astutely noted that any attempt to explain away the Year 59 Horemheb date as a " scribal error " fails to consider the long and volumnious listed series of court trials and legal setbacks which Mes ' family endured in order to win back control over certain valuable lands which had been stolen from his family's line.