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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.

effort and spearheaded
Franklin became a national hero in America when he spearheaded the effort to have Parliament repeal the unpopular Stamp Act.
Rick Boyce, a former media buyer with San Francisco advertising agency Hal Riney & Partners, spearheaded the sales effort for the company .< ref > Reid, Robert H. ( 1997 ).
Stephen Hyatt Pell, who spearheaded the restoration effort, founded the Fort Ticonderoga Association in 1931, which is now responsible for the fort.
The genetic basis of HD was discovered in 1993 by an international collaborative effort spearheaded by the Hereditary Disease Foundation.
Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver ( the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments ), a long-time advocate for addressing the disability question, spearheaded the effort until he died of a heart attack on August 10, 1963.
In 1987, after being fired from Marvel, Shooter spearheaded an effort to purchase the then-floundering publisher Marvel from its corporate ownership — " buying Marvel Comics " as it were.
George Henry Crosby spearheaded the effort by the Mormons to build a ditch high enough to irrigate a larger area of Round Valley, higher than the small ditches then used in Springerville.
After ownership of the Meridian Main Street was transferred to the Alliance for Downtown Meridian in late 2007, the two organizations, along with the Meridian Downtown Association, spearheaded the downtown revitalization effort.
Cyrus Mark, the first president of the Illinois Nature Conservancy spearheaded the effort to purchase Volo Bog for preservation.
Lycoming College and the Muncy Historical Society have spearheaded an effort to uncover the history of Port Penn.
on the Seattle TV station KING, spearheaded an effort to have " Louie Louie " replace " Washington, My Home " by Helen Davis as Washington's official state song.
William Wilkerson, who became the town's second mayor, spearheaded the incorporation effort and helped improve the town's phone service and water supply.
The program, launched in 2004, is a multi-faceted effort, spearheaded by the AICPA with the support of state CPA societies.
A major catalyst for this was the conversion of many Seminole to Christianity, following missionary effort spearheaded by the CreekBaptist evangelist Stanley Smith.
There is a grassroots effort afoot to get him a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, spearheaded by Radio One host Joe Madison.
The effort is again being spearheaded by Emanuel Steward, the gym's legendary trainer.
This effort was spearheaded by Councillor Kyle Rae, Robert Sniderman of the Senator Restaurant, and Arron Barberian of Barberian's Steak House.
He became one of the founding members of the Country Music Association in Nashville, Tennessee and spearheaded the effort to build the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
He was the director of Manitoba Child and Family Services from 1983 to 1985 and in this capacity spearheaded an effort to rewrite the province's child protection legislation.
The effort was originally spearheaded by the 2002 – 2003 Tappee class of the Texas Orange Jackets, the " oldest women's organization at the University " ( of Texas at Austin ).
The organization has since spearheaded the state's effort to save the local French language and culture.
During the period that DNA Lounge was closed, Zawinski spearheaded a successful grassroots effort to maintain its late-night permits, facing opposition from several neighbors and the SFPD, but was unable to procure an all-ages license.
In 2009, he spearheaded an effort to repeal clauses in the Civil Partnership Act 2004 which prohibited religious institutions from conducting the ceremonies on their premises.
While Mayor-Pro Tem, Annette spearheaded the effort to build a refuge for an increasing number of families living on the streets, victims of the collapsed Texas economy.
This has application to the development of ecash, an effort originally spearheaded by David Chaum.

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