While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.

The actual impelling force which severed me from evangelical effort was of another sort.

Therefore, he decided he was unfair to the young man and should make an effort to understand and sympathize with his point of view.

Wilson stressed the fact that clear as this was, they must have a better church, a more business-like conduct of the church organization, and an effort to get this religious center out of its rut of wild worship into a modern church organization.

That after all his years of effort to become a composer, he should now, now when he was still stoutly replying to the critics of his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, be so close to a success in music and have to reject it.

Suppose at this very moment her father was calling my house in an effort to cancel the plans??

Local industry's investment in Rhode Island was the big story in 1960's industrial development effort.

In all of this extensive and expensive effort, the camera was downgraded to the status of recording instrument for art work produced elsewhere by the actor or by the author.

But no art at all was born of the art effort in the early movies.

Rep. James Cotten of Weatherford insisted that a water development bill passed by the Texas House of Representatives was an effort by big cities like Dallas and Fort Worth to cover up places like Paradise, a Wise County hamlet of 250 people.

Catcher Frank House's throw in an effort to nab Throneberry was wide and in the dirt.

The target was Allied shipping -- a desperate effort to stave off the Allied invasion of Europe.

Moreover, an eventual meeting was desirable if for no other reason than to satisfy world opinion that the U. S. was not inflexible and was sparing no effort to ease international tensions.

Finally, there was a wide area of agreement on the value of the President's making a final effort in the summit spotlight for a nuclear test accord.

Here was what was called the American dream, namely, the effort to build a structure which would be something new in history and to do so in such fashion that God could bless it.

Another weakness -- far more irritating than his manner of speaking, which he made only token effort to change -- was his devotion to that old horse of Tolley's.

The war effort was the source of continued disparagement of Lincoln, and dominated his time and attention.

From the start, it was clear that bipartisan support would be essential to success in the war effort, and any manner of compromise alienated factions on both sides of the aisle, such as the appointment of Republicans and Democrats to command positions in the Union Army.

In terms of war strategy, Lincoln articulated two priorities: to ensure that Washington was well-defended, and to conduct an aggressive war effort that would satisfy the demand in the North for prompt, decisive victory ; major Northern newspaper editors expected victory within 90 days.

With the great Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, and the defeat of the Copperheads in the Ohio election in the fall, Lincoln maintained a strong base of party support and was in a strong position to redefine the war effort, despite the New York City draft riots.

The emancipation of slaves was now part of the national war effort.

As Neely ( 2004 ) concludes, there was no effort to engage in " total war " against civilians, as in World War II.

As he informs Watson, `` My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.

How long it will take to show substantial success in this effort will vary greatly from country to country.

Snyder theorizes that Agathon might have made a deliberate effort to mimic the sumptuous attire of his famous fellow-poet, although by Agathon's time, such clothing, especially the κεκρύφαλος ( kekryphalos, an elaborate covering for the hair ) had long fallen out of fashion for men.

The cabal was created in an effort to facilitate reliable propagation of new Usenet posts: While in the 1970s and 1980s many news servers only operated during night time to save on the cost of long distance communication, servers of the backbone cabal were available 24 hours a day.

More technically and financially capable organizations were surely able to do the same long before the effort described in the book.

And the second course of action led to my going to Pakistan a month or so after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, for the purpose of coordinating with the Pakistanis a joint response, the purpose of which would be to make the Soviets bleed for as much and as long as is possible ; and we engaged in that effort in a collaborative sense with the Saudis, the Egyptians, the British, the Chinese, and we started providing weapons to the Mujaheddin, from various sources again – for example, some Soviet arms from the Egyptians and the Chinese.

Most observers familiar with horses and their capabilities estimate that Watt was either a bit optimistic or intended to underpromise and overdeliver ; few horses can maintain that effort for long.

Later versions had a rectangular sail on a single mast which was used to replace or augment the effort of the rowers, particularly during long journeys.

At sea, the sail enabled longships to travel faster than by oar and to cover long distances overseas with far less manual effort.

Potatoes yield abundantly with little effort, and adapt readily to diverse climates as long as the climate is cool and moist enough for the plants to gather sufficient water from the soil to form the starchy tubers.

Intellectual property-non-corporeal things like ideas, plans, orderings and arrangements ( musical compositions, novels, computer programs )-are generally considered valid property to those who support an effort justification, but invalid to those who support a scarcity justification, since they don't have the exclusivity property ( however they may still support other ' intellectual property '- laws such as Copyright, as long as these are a subject of contract instead of government arbitration ).

This awakening to moral and spiritual realities thus precedes a transformation of lifestyle and thought patterns often taking place over a long period of time and requiring a significant level of effort and commitment as described in the spiritual teachings of the world's great religions.

However, the Giants would rebound and put out a solid effort all season long, culminating with a division title and the best record in the Major Leagues.

Written entirely in Hebrew, a sefer Torah contains 304, 805 letters, all of which must be duplicated precisely by a trained sofer (“ scribe ”), an effort which may take as long as approximately one and a half years.

Grant forced Lee into a long nine month siege of Petersburg and the Union war effort stalled.

After a long effort, the duke succeeded in exiling Guy in 1050.

After a long effort at conquest, and shortly before his death, in 1013 he became the first of the Danish Kings of England.

The Bonding process is long and hard, but may very well be worth the effort.

Saruman, however, reassured the Council that Sauron's evident effort to find the One Ring ( a necessary component of his resurgence ) would fail, as the Ring would long since have been carried by the river Anduin to the Sea ; and the matter was allowed to rest.

And the second course of action led to my going to Pakistan a month or so after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, for the purpose of coordinating with the Pakistanis a joint response, the purpose of which would be to make the Soviets bleed for as much and as long as is possible ; and we engaged in that effort in a collaborative sense with the Saudis, the Egyptians, the British, the Chinese, and we started providing weapons to the Mujaheddin, from various sources again – for example, some Soviet arms from the Egyptians and the Chinese.

Because ten nuns are required in order to ordain a new one, the effort to establish the Dharmaguptaka bhikkhu tradition has taken a long time.

The same feature worked with file names, which took some effort on the part of the interpreter, and the system allowed for long file names with human-readable descriptions.

However, Milbrath states that " a long cycle 30, 000 years involving the Pleiades ... may have been an effort to calculate the precession of the equinox.

Regaining control of the root from Network Solutions would have clarified his authority to create new top-level domains as a step to resolving the DNS Wars, but he ended his effort after Magaziner's threat, and died not long after.