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 ".

It has even been reported, although apparently without historical documentation, that Adolf Hitler was influenced by concave hollow-Earth ideas and sent an expedition in an unsuccessful attempt to spy on the British fleet by pointing infrared cameras up at the sky

After an apparently successful attempt to enforce the baptism of all Jews and Montanists in the empire ( 722 ), he issued a series of edicts against the worship of images ( 726 – 729 ).

Ameliki describes how some of the Nephites wished to return to the land of Nephi, apparently in an attempt to reclaim it.

There was some fighting in Meirionnydd the following year, but Rhys apparently made no serious attempt to annex it.

When the scammer – who apparently never heard of the television series, asked for his passport details, he sent a copy of a fake passport with a photo of Star Trek's Captain Kirk, hoping that the scammer would attempt to use it and get arrested.

Some informed consent laws have been criticized for allegedly using " loaded language in an apparently deliberate attempt to ' personify ' the fetus ," but those critics acknowledge that abortion information provided pursuant to informed consent laws " most of the information in the materials about abortion comports with recent scientific findings and the principles of informed consent, some content is either misleading or altogether incorrect.

An attempt to visit Barsoom takes them to an apparently different version of Mars seemingly under the colonial rule of the British Empire ; but near the end of the novel, Heinlein's recurring character Lazarus Long hints that they had traveled to Barsoom, and that its " colonial " status was an illusion imposed on them by the telepathically adept Barsoomians:

Thomas Francis led the joint armies again in 1644, taking Santya and Asti ; he also tried to take Finale Ligure, but gave up the attempt, apparently because he feared this valuable port would end up in French control rather than Piedmontese.

Thomas led the joint armies again in 1644, taking Santya and Asti ; he also tried to take Finale Ligure, but gave up the attempt, apparently because he feared this valuable port would end up in French control rather than Piedmontese.

Just before he had left Korea, Choi apparently had a disagreement with a wrestler named Hu, and the possibility of a future confrontation inspired him to train ; in his own words, " I would imagine that these were the techniques I would use to defend myself against the wrestler, Mr. Hu, if he did attempt to carry out his promise to tear me limb from limb when I eventually returned to Korea " ( Park, 1993, p. 242 ).

( It is Luke who has dropped the acid-he, too, having been taken prisoner in an independent attempt to rescue Jasra, and having apparently been given it as an experiment.

On the other hand, she apparently has a conscience, risking her life to rescue a man on Mercury and later dying in an attempt to save a distressed flier.

And then the violent, bloody ending is also a mistake ; apparently it was a misguided attempt to copy " Bonnie and Clyde ...." we don't believe it, and we walk out of the theater wondering what happened to that great movie we were seeing until an hour ago.

Chapter 13 describes how, in desperate attempt to call down rain, the image of Moloch was brought to the center of Carthage, how the arms of the image were moved by the pulling of chains by the priests ( apparently Flaubert's own invention ), and then describes the sacrifices made to Moloch.

However Hotspur was killed in the attempt, apparently being shot in the face when he opened his visor.

President Ramos-Horta was critically injured in an assassination attempt on February 11, 2008, in a failed coup apparently perpetrated by Alfredo Reinado, a renegade soldier who died in the attack.

Antiochus tried to suppress public observance of Jewish laws, apparently in an attempt to secure control over the Jews.

When the Silver Star crew located and boarded the apparently undamaged Ourang Medan in a rescue attempt, the ship was found littered with corpses ( including the carcass of a dog ) in what appeared to be terrified postures, with no survivors and no visible signs of injuries on the dead bodies.

The attempt resulted in a supernova that apparently consumed Omega, but instead shunted him into an antimatter universe.

Inspectors also reported the discovery of over 3, 000 pages of weapons program documents in the home of an Iraqi citizen, suggesting an attempt to " hide " them from inspectors and apparently contradicting Iraq's earlier claim that it had no further documents to provide.

A fourth plane also heading for Washington crashes in rural Pennsylvania, apparently after passengers and members of flight crew attempt to re-take control.

At the Fifth Solvay Congress, held in Belgium in October 1927 and attended by all the major theoretical physicists of the era, Louis de Broglie presented his own version of a deterministic hidden-variable theory, apparently unaware of Einstein's aborted attempt earlier in the year.

Paul Mellon's ownership in Newsweek apparently represented " the first attempt of the Mellon family to function journalistically on a national scale.

He played Amanda's worldly and sophisticated admirer Worthy, the " fine gentleman of the play ", and apparently brought an unintended hands-on realism to his supposedly suave seduction attempt:

Since the areas for science to investigate are theoretically infinite, the issue then arises as to what science should attempt to question or find out.

In similar fashion, the isolation and examination of the stage image of Cleopatra becomes an attempt to improve the understanding of the theatrical power of her infinite variety and the cultural treatment of that power .” So, as a microcosm, Cleopatra can be understood within a postmodern context, as long as one understands that the purpose for the examination of this microcosm is to further one ’ s own interpretation of the work as a whole.

Hawking and Ellis attempt to describe the foundation of space itself and its nature of infinite expansion, using differential geometry to examine the consequences of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.

Einstein's first attempt at modeling relied on a cosmological constant that was finely tuned to exactly balance out matter curvature and provide a framework for an infinite and unchanging spacetime metric in which the objects of the universe were embedded.

Maimon's concept of an infinite mind as the basis of all opposites was similar to the German idealistic attempt to rescue theism by positing an Absolute Mind or Spirit.

Now I understand that this burden was the infinite love for the land of his ancestors, an attempt to endure all the ordeals, to have full responsibility for his every step.

For example, these crawlers do not attempt to find dynamic pages that are the result of database queries due to the infinite number of queries that are possible.

Attempting to flee from the clones with Doomsday, the Superman Family discover that their ship is now on course for Earth with the potential to trigger an extinction-level-event if it strikes, only for their attempt to divert the ship being interrupted by a being called ' Doomslayer ', resembling a cyborg version of Doomsday-later revealed to be a Doomsday who was tossed down an infinite tube that gave it time to evolve -, who effortlessly tears Eradicator apart and proclaims that Earth must die for the future.

Baum's decision to ration the Magic Belt to one wish a day may be a retcon attempt to limit the Belt's otherwise infinite ability to get his characters out of predicaments ; at any rate, this one-per-day wish limit is never mentioned again in any other Oz book.

It is an ecstasy, or exteriority toward the Other that forever remains beyond any attempt at full capture, this otherness is interminable ( or infinite ); even in murdering another, the otherness remains, it has not been negated or controlled.

Care must be taken that the secondary of a current transformer is not disconnected from its load while current is flowing in the primary, as the transformer secondary will attempt to continue driving current across the effectively infinite impedance.

The ALARP principle arises from the fact that infinite time, effort and money could be spent on the attempt of reducing a risk to zero.

It entailed the recruitment of clerical scholars from Mercia, Wales and abroad to enhance the tenor of the court and of the episcopacy ; the establishment of a court school to educate his own children, the sons of his nobles, and intellectually promising boys of lesser birth ; an attempt to require literacy in those who held offices of authority ; a series of translations into the vernacular of Latin works the king deemed " most necessary for all men to know "; the compilation of a chronicle detailing the rise of Alfred's kingdom and house ; and the issuance of a law code that presented the West Saxons as a new people of Israel and their king as a just and divinely inspired law-giver.

Adoptionism was one position in a long series of Christian disagreements about the precise nature of Christ ( see Christology ) in the developing dogma of the Trinity, an attempt to explain the relationship between Jesus of Nazareth, both as man and God, and God the Father while confidently claiming to be uncompromisingly monotheistic.

For several years, the National League and American Association champions met in a postseason championship series — the first attempt at a World Series.

Therefore, the Kennedy administration decided to try the new Corona ( satellite ) KH series in an attempt to obtain sufficient evidence.

Auditing is a process whereby a series of questions are asked by the Scientology auditor, in an attempt to rid the auditee of the painful experiences of the past which scientologists believe to be the cause of the " reactive mind.

* statements assuming a combination of intention and probability (" they are moving ") to distinguish the likely series of events and dependencies (" if they can sell their house they might move to Agrestic or if they can't, to Gardendale ") in which the probability that an attempt to do something complex may fail is explicitly acknowledged and not assumed certain.

A series of Jacobite rebellions broke out in an attempt to restore the Stuart monarchy, but all ultimately failed.

His second attempt, however, fit Roberts ' vision perfectly: a spaced-out series of clustered buildings, joined by lower structures and complemented by two underground levels.

* Top Gear, British television series, featuring an episode following a desert challenge in which Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May attempt to drive three old cars across Botswana, including the Kalahari Desert

Their influence increased after a coup attempt in May 1985, that was blocked mainly thanks to the action of the Revolutionary Guard that engaged regular army units in a series of street battles.

In an attempt to prevent dirty money from entering the US financial system in the first place, the United States Congress passed a series of laws, starting in 1970, collectively known as the Bank Secrecy Act.

Modernism comprised a series of sometimes contradictory responses to the situation as it was understood, and the attempt to wrestle universal principles from it.

Morphophonological analysis often involves an attempt to give a series of formal rules that successfully predict the regular sound changes occurring in the morphemes of a given language.

Nepal has used a series of five-year plans in an attempt to make progress in economic development.

Fortunately, there are a series of simplified models that attempt to describe market behavior under certain circumstances.

Beginning in August 1940, the German Luftwaffe began a series of concentrated aerial attacks ( designated Unternehmen Adlerangriff or Operation Eagle Attack ) on targets throughout the United Kingdom in an attempt to destroy the RAF ( Royal Air Force ) and establish air superiority over Great Britain.

The two women usually attempt to get the men to make peace with each other at least once per series.

In 149 BC, in an attempt to draw Carthage into open conflict, Rome made a series of escalating demands, one being the surrender of three hundred children of the nobility as hostages, and finally ending with the near-impossible demand that the city be demolished and rebuilt away from the coast, deeper into Africa.

This change was necessary to support the plot change in which the killing of Kimble's wife was not a senseless murder by a transient during a botched robbery attempt ( as in the original series ) but rather the result of a fiendish plot by an evil drug company executive.

( They did attempt a series of daily prime time soaps, which aired on newly created sister network MyNetworkTV, but the experiment was largely a failure.

This first series of lessons culminated, at the 11-year-old Prokofiev's insistence, with the budding composer making his first attempt to write a symphony.

The last straw was a series of laws enacted by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, including an attempt to prevent Jews from living in Jerusalem ; a new Roman city, Aelia Capitolina, was to be built in its place.

The 15-minute series The Telegoons ( 1963 ) was the next attempt to transplant The Goons to television, this time using puppet versions of the familiar characters.

Miyamoto has referred to the creation of the Zelda games as an attempt to bring to life a " miniature garden " for players to play with in each game of the series.