Marauders soon infiltrated the house ; they attempt to gain access to Destiny's Diaries on the order of Mr. Sinister ( who has been gathering information about the future from anybody and anything that could foretell the future ).

When Cordelia and Groo return, they find that some terrible things have happened in their absence, such as Connor being stolen by Holtz and Wesley having betrayed the team in an attempt to protect Connor from a prophecy that seemed to foretell Angel killing his son.

The movement of events is so fast, the pace so severe, that an attempt to peer into the future is essential if we are to think accurately about the present.

and, now and in the future unlike in the past, any attempt to repel injury and to preserve any particular civilized attainment of mankind or its provisional justice runs some risk of nuclear warfare and the danger that an effect of it will, by human action, render this planet less habitable by the human race.

Another view defines anxiety as " a future-oriented mood state in which one is ready or prepared to attempt to cope with upcoming negative events ," suggesting that it is a distinction between future and present dangers which divides anxiety and fear.

Conciliation is an alternative dispute resolution ( ADR ) process whereby the parties to a dispute ( including future interest disputes ) agree to utilize the services of a conciliator, who then meets with the parties separately in an attempt to resolve their differences.

At some time in 299, the Emperors took part in a ceremony of sacrifice and divination in an attempt to predict the future.

As the Starchild's transformation of Jupiter occurs ( it becomes engulfed with monoliths ), the crew of the Leonov make good their exit, and Bowman gives one last message via HAL, warning the human race not to attempt future contact with Europa, where the new mini-sun has melted the oceans and ushered in a new era of evolution.

Electrothermal-chemical ( ETC ) technology is an attempt to increase accuracy and muzzle energy of future tank, artillery, and close-in weapon system guns by improving the predictability and rate of expansion of propellants inside the barrel.

* Isaac Asimov's Encyclopedia Galactica as presented in The Foundation Series is an attempt to compile all human knowledge in order to preserve it following the collapse of the Galactic Empire in the far future.

* Futurists or futurologists, scientists whose speciality is to attempt to predict the future

After more than a century of strained relations and intercepted fighting Greece and Turkey agreed under the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 to a population exchange as an attempt to reduce tensions between the two countries in the future.

At the same time, the baptism decreased the likelihood of future attacks by German margraves and deprived them of the opportunity to attempt Christianization of Mieszko's lands by force.

In an attempt to address those criticisms, the statute of the recently established International Criminal Court provides for a system in which crimes and penalties are expressly set out in written law, that shall only be applied to future cases.

In The Only Game in Town, a Mongol warrior, while not knowing that the two " magicians " he meets are time travelers from the future, correctly guesses their intentions — and captures them with the help of the " magic " flashlight they had given him in an attempt to impress him.

Further, the use of the word attempt in Paragraph 6 denotes future action and cannot be construed to justify territorial redress for past action.

Even the most credible international assessment body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ), has refused to attempt subjective probabilistic estimates of future temperatures.

The attempt to detect a tachyon from the future ( and violate causality ) would actually create the same tachyon and send it forward in time ( which is causal ).

In 1896, the Independent ceased doing business and Amos Kling wasted no time in financing and launching another rival paper, the Republican Transcript, in a failed attempt to derail his future son-in-law.

* May 11 – Otsu Incident: Tsesarevich Nikolay Alexandrovich ( the future Czar Nicholas II ) of Russia survives an assassination attempt while visiting Japan.

In a last-ditch attempt to win the war, Skynet sends a cybernetic assassin called a Terminator back through time to murder Connor's mother Sarah before he is born, thereby preventing Connor's existence and the success of his future rebellion.

Stipulating that " some future case may attempt to establish that notwithstanding equal benefits and protections under Vermont law — the denial of a marriage license operates per se to deny constitutionally-protected rights ," the court decided that this was not the issue being addressed by the case at hand.

Nazi doctors often used gay men for scientific experiments in an attempt to locate a " gay gene " to " cure " any future Aryan children who were gay.

The Nine take advantage of this momentum and attempt to recover the Total Codex, a book that contains the past, present and future within its pages, from the ruins of the historical city of Covenant.

Spite tokens are awarded when a murder attempt fails and adds a bonus point to all future murder attempts.

Although there were many IRA men — both Official and Provisional — present at the protest, it is claimed they were all unarmed, apparently because it was anticipated that the paratroopers would attempt to " draw them out ".

In the present work an attempt is made to set forth the inferred Indo-European original language side by side with its really existent derived languages.

" The attempt by some twentieth-century Catholic theologians to present the Eucharistic change as an alteration of significance ( transignification rather than transubstantiation ) was rejected by Pope Paul VI in his 1965 encyclical letter Mysterium fidei In his 1968 Credo of the People of God, he reiterated that any theological explanation of the doctrine must hold to the twofold claim that, after the consecration, 1 ) Christ's body and blood are really present ; and 2 ) bread and wine are really absent ; and this presence and absence is real and not merely something in the mind of the believer.

They won the West London Amateur Cup in 1887 and, having shortened the name from Fulham Excelsior to its present form in 1888, they then won the West London League in 1893 at the first attempt.

Polybius, one of the first historians to attempt to present history as a sequence of causes and effects, carefully conducted his research — partly based on what he saw and partly on the communications of eye-witnesses and the participants in the events.

Because it is not the job of science to define human morality, a religious experience is an attempt to connect with a perceived moral past, which is in contrast with the technological present.

The OEDs official policy is to attempt to record a word's most-known usages and variants in all varieties of English past and present, worldwide.

In the face of capitalism, Jameson says, " It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place " ( Jameson 1991, ix ).

This characteristic has made it a useful addition to no-till and low-till farming practices which attempt to maximise the erosion-prevention benefits of keeping organic matter and farming residues present on the soil surface through the year.

Polybius was among the first historians to attempt to present history as a sequence of causes and effects, based upon a careful examination and criticism of tradition.

During World War II trace italienne fortresses could still present a formidable challenge, for example in the last days of World War II, during the Battle in Berlin that saw some of the heaviest urban fighting of the war, the Soviets did not attempt to storm the Spandau Citadel ( built between 1559 and 1594 ) but chose to invest it and negotiate its surrender.

He argued that humans are not called to justify God in the face of evil, but to attempt to live godly life ; rather than considering whether God was present during the Holocaust, the duty of humans is to build a world where goodness will prevail.

They do not hide the fact that communication takes place, and as such do not attempt to present the cluster as a single parallel machine.

The Great Books of the Western World is an attempt to present the western canon in a single package of 60 volumes

; Province of Maine: Settled in 1622 ( An earlier attempt to settle the Popham Colony in Sagadahoc, Maine ( near present day Phippsburg and Popham Beach State Park ) in 1607 was abandoned after only one year ).

As the translator himself notes in his preface to the three volumes, " o attempt has been made to superimpose on the translation changes that would be needed to ' rectify ' ... accretions, ... repetitions, non sequiturs and confusions that mark the present text ," and the work is a " representation of what is primarily oral literature, appealing to the ear rather than the eye.

" Writer Colin Wilson suspects that Fort took few if any of his " explanations " seriously, and notes that Fort made " no attempt to present a coherent argument ".

The ways in which a party may attempt to repudiate a signature present a challenge to the trustworthiness of the signatures themselves.

When Keitel then heard a radio broadcast about the failed assassination attempt, Keitel, aware his brother Wilhelm had to have been present at the meeting with Hitler in the Wolf's Lair and could conceivably be hurt or dead, had Boehmer immediately found and arrested.

He concludes that for a historian to attempt a more objective method, one must accept that history can only aspire to a conversation of the present with the past-and that one's methods of fact gathering should be openly examined.

The structure was reduced very nearly to its present state during the 1860s in a misguided attempt to restore the edifice to its original glory The picture shows that more of the Great Stone Church survived the quake than what is presently standing.