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In the early 1050s, the Lamtuna, under the joint leadership of Yahya ibn Umar and Abdallah ibn Yasin-soon calling themselves the al-Murabitin ( Almoravids )-set out on campaign to bring their neighbors over to their cause.
The Anglo-Dutch forces gained minor compensation for the failed Moselle campaign with the success at Elixheim and the crossing of the Lines of Brabant in the Spanish Netherlands ( Huy was also retaken on 11 July ), but a chance to bring the French to a decisive engagement had eluded Marlborough.
Campaign buses are often specially decorated for a political campaign or other social awareness information campaign, designed to bring a specific message to different areas, and / or used to transport campaign personnel to local areas / meetings.
There is now a campaign to bring back the flags again.
This was part of a wider campaign to bring the province of Ulster under English control ; there had been a major siege of Enniskillen Castle in 1594.
When Theodosius ascended to the imperial throne in 380, he began on a campaign to bring the Eastern Church back to Nicene Christianity.
There is a campaign to bring some closed lines back into service, in particular the Limerick-Sligo line ( the Western Railway Corridor ), to facilitate economic regeneration in the west, which has lagged behind the rest of the country.
This campaign was successful enough to bring back Telia to the negotiation table over the interconnection issue.
In 2000, former Tirana mayor Edi Rama undertook a campaign to demolish illegal buildings around the city centre and on Lana River banks to bring the area to its pre-1990 state.
Former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani made a crackdown on vandalism a centerpiece of his anti-crime agenda in the 1990s, asserting that a strong campaign against nonviolent " quality of life " crimes such as vandalism would bring about a corresponding decrease in violent crime.
With the refusal of Henry the Lion to bring help to Italy, the campaign was a complete failure.
Funds that she helped to collect were used to buy a river launch, called Alexandra, to ferry the wounded during the Sudan campaign, and to fit out a hospital ship, named The Princess of Wales, to bring back wounded from the Boer War.
As part of his campaign to bring culture to Haifa, Mayor Abba Hushi provided the artist Mane-Katz with a building on Mount Carmel to house his collection of Judaica, which is now a museum.
On the other hand, Alcibiades argued that a campaign in this new theatre would bring riches to the city and expand the empire, just as the Persian Wars had.
In the spring of 1965, Jack McGregor, a state senator from Kittanning, began lobbying campaign contributors and community leaders to bring an NHL franchise back to Pittsburgh.
Upon his return, Bonaparte expressed fury at Joséphine for purchasing such an expensive house with the money she had expected him to bring back from the Egyptian campaign.
However, it failed to bring about prohibition, as happened in the United States, despite a long campaign for a local option.
With the announcement of the sequel, fans once again began a campaign to bring Christopher back to the Enterprise after his appearance in 2009's Star Trek, stating that " the Enterprise needs a Doohan ".
In April 2010, Lauper launched the Give a Damn campaign to bring a wider awareness of discrimination of the LGBT community as part of her True Colors Fund.
The campaign is to bring straight people to stand up with the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender community and stop the discrimination.
He referred to himself as " the cholo " throughout his campaign, and many indigenous Peruvians hoped that as president he would bring greater attention to issues of importance to them.
Residents launched a " tongue in cheek " campaign to bring the Olympic games to Milngavie in 2020.

campaign and about
They'd peddled the soap virtually alone, and without much success, until about a year ago, when -- with the addition of `` SX-21 '' to their secret formula and the inauguration of a high-powered advertising campaign -- sales had soared practically into orbit.
Any attempt to reconcile this statement of the central issue in the campaign of 1956 with the nature of the man who could not conceive it as the central issue will at least resolve our confusions about the chaotic and misleading results of the earnestness of both doctors and President in a situation which should never have arisen.
They were repelled by his noisy newspapers, his personal publicity, his presumptuous campaign for the Presidential nomination, and by the swelling cloud of rumor about his moral lapses.
Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.
During his aggressive campaign to win his present position, Mr. Kennedy was vitriolic about this country's `` prestige '' abroad.
A year ago today, when the Democrats were fretting and frolicking in Los Angeles and John F. Kennedy was still only an able and ambitious Senator who yearned for the power and responsibility of the Presidency, Theodore H. White had already compiled masses of notes about the Presidential campaign of 1960.
After only about a month, Clinton postponed his plans to be a coordinator for the McGovern campaign for the 1972 United States presidential election in order to move in with her in California.
The campaign raised more than $ 1. 4 billion from about 16, 000 donors.
From the mid-1960s, the anti-war movement's preoccupation with the Vietnam War tended to eclipse concern about nuclear weapons but CND continued to campaign against them.
* 40, 000 Horsemen, about the Australian Light Horse during the Sinai and Palestine campaign of World War I
The anti − alcohol campaign reduced tax revenues as well, which in 1982 accounted for about 12 % of all state revenue.
Van Doesburg became a friend of Schwitters, and together they organized the so-called Dutch Dada campaign in 1923, where Van Doesburg promoted a leaflet about Dada ( entitled What is Dada?
The Marlins were asked about ace Dontrelle Willis after his Cy Young caliber campaign in 2005 amid the " Market Correction " but rejected an offer from the Detroit Tigers that would have landed them now 4 × MLB All-Star and 2011 AL MVP pitcher Justin Verlander and five-tool outfielder Curtis Granderson, both prospects with some major league experience under their belt.
Ghana has embarked upon an aggressive media campaign to educate the public about what re-denomination entails.
A campaign poster at the time proudly stated, " Everyone is talking about Germany ; we're talking about the weather!
He talks about this campaign vividly in his memoirs.
Onis's argument was that their advertising could be seen in prominent landmarks throughout London, having been already accredited, showing concern about the impact IKEA's campaign would have on the originality of their own.
From May onwards, he orchestrated a " hate campaign " against Poland, fabricating stories about atrocities against ethnic Germans in Danzig and other cities.
At the 1993 Conservative Party Conference, Major began the " Back to Basics " campaign, which he intended to be about the economy, education, policing, and other such issues, but it was interpreted by many ( including Conservative cabinet ministers ) as an attempt to revert to the moral and family values that the Conservative Party were often associated with.
On 5 March 363, despite a series of omens against the campaign, Julian departed from Antioch with about 80, 000 – 90, 000 men, and headed north toward the Euphrates.
" Upon taking Mazar-i-Sharif in 1998, about 4, 000-6, 000 civilians were killed in an ethnic cleansing campaign by the Taliban and many more reported tortured.
This was accompanied by a cut in prices of about a third and was marketed as the Fares Fair campaign.
Fearing that the movement was about to take a turn towards violence, and convinced that this would be the undoing of all his work, Gandhi called off the campaign of mass civil disobedience.
In 2009 Dixit performed for NDTV Toyota Greenathon — India's first-ever nationwide campaign for save the environment and creating awareness about environmental issues.

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