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efforts and provide
This year's Senate measure would provide each state and the District of Columbia with $1,000,000 to be used in support of private, state, or municipal ETV efforts.
The President asks the support and cooperation of Congress in his efforts through the enactment of legislation to provide federal grants to states for specified efforts in combating this disturbing crime trend.
Vague in wording, it called for withdrawal of Belgian troops and authorized the Secretary-General `` to take the necessary steps to provide the ( Congolese ) Government with such military assistance as may be necessary, until, through the efforts of the Congolese Government with the technical assistance of the United Nations, the national security forces may be able, in the opinion of the Government, to meet fully their tasks.
Du Bois ' Black Reconstruction, first published in 1935, historians have noted African American contributions during Reconstruction to founding what were often the first systems of public education and welfare institutions in the South, gave muted praise for Republican efforts to extend suffrage and provide other social institutions, and excoriated Johnson for opposing the extension of basic rights to freedmen.
Continuing internal strife severely hampered domestic efforts to rebuild the nation or provide ways for the international community to help.
The practices of Egyptian religion were efforts to provide for the gods and gain their favor.
The New York Times reported in September 1906 on the rationale for the changes: " The main efforts of the football reformers have been to ' open up the game '— that is to provide for the natural elimination of the so-called mass plays and bring about a game in which speed and real skill shall supersede so far as possible mere brute strength and force of weight.
After the first episode, Bryce is generally recruited by Carter and his controller Theora Jones to provide technical aid to their investigative reporting efforts.
The Government of Namibia is making efforts to take advantage of the American-led African Growth and Opportunity Act ( AGOA ), which will provide preferential access to American markets for a long list of products.
Specifically, Nigeria had advanced efforts to provide universal primary education, protect the environment, and develop a global development partnership.
Despite these efforts the army is still not in a position to provide forces with the appropriate " level of training and discipline " without significant risk, according to Janes.
The mobile telephone services are usually available only in urban areas, although there are currently efforts to provide nationwide mobile phone coverage.
Modern medicine is forever in debt to the efforts put forth by Vesalius and his ethic to provide the most accurate form of the human body.
Collaborative efforts between WHO and other agencies, such as through the Health Metrics Network, also aim to provide sufficient high-quality information to assist governmental decision making.
The Direct Rendering Infrastructure ( DRI ), which aims to provide a reliable kernel-level interface to the framebuffer, may make these efforts redundant.
Thus, the ensuing revival of Augustinian theology, stating that man cannot be saved by his own efforts but only by the grace of God would erode the legitimacy of the rigid institutions of the church meant to provide a channel for man to do good works and get into heaven.
** Individual Mobilization Augmentee ( IMA )-The National Communications System ( NCS ) Augmentee Program was established in 1988 to provide a cadre of skilled civilian and military reservists to enhance the efforts of the Office of the Manager, NCS ( OMNCS ), the National Coordinating Center for Telecommunications ( NCC ), and NCS Regional Managers ( RMs ) during national crises and emergencies.
Together, these discoveries provide strong evidence that theoretical physicists are on the right track in their efforts to describe Nature at its most basic level through the so-called " Standard Model ".
Due to various changes in the ecosystem, some that are human-induced, efforts have been made to provide enhanced protection to some species of native fish and the increasingly threatened Whitebark Pine.
Early efforts to mimic snow involved laying extruded plastic tiles with upward spikes in an attempt to provide grip.
As noted by Brian Lapping, the Community Development Projects were also designed to test the view that within poor communities local residents could articulate local grievances, get conditions in their areas improved, and provide some kind of political leadership, in a way that the existing political structure had failed to do, “ largely because these areas of intense poverty were rarely big enough to be electorally important .” In assessing the First Wilson Government ’ s efforts to uplift the poorest members of British society via the establishment of the Community Development Projects and the designation of the Educational Priority Areas, Brian Lapping noted that
: We once again appeal to the industrialized countries, particularly those who have not done so, to urgently ratify and fully implement the Kyoto Protocol, and to provide concrete support in all our adaptation efforts to cope with the effects of climate change and sea level rise.
The Canine Explosives Detection Unit ( K-9 ): Created in 1976, the mission of the K-9 unit is to provide skilled and specialized explosives detection support to protective efforts involving Secret Service protectees.
While efforts to give to others and volunteer take place all year at the mission, the holiday season has many more programs to provide assistance to the community.

efforts and arms
As the Confederate government concentrated efforts on the units in the East, they gave Johnston only small numbers of reinforcements and minimal amounts of arms and material.
The Enterprise's efforts culminated in the Iran-Contra Affair of 1986 – 1987, which facilitated contra funding through the proceeds of arms sales to Iran.
Sweden has devoted particular attention to issues of disarmament, arms control, and nuclear nonproliferation and has contributed importantly to UN and other international peacekeeping efforts, including the NATO-led peacekeeping forces in the Balkans.
In so doing, he ensured that China's efforts to defend itself would not be hindered by the legislation: China was dependent on arms imports and only Japan would have been able to take advantage of cash-and-carry.
The book mentions the years of tireless efforts by physical therapist Sam Brockington which allowed Campanella to regain some use of his arms, eventually overcome his initial bitterness about his fate, and finally adopt an optimistic outlook on life.
The Iran-Contra matter resulted from NSC-led efforts to develop a policy to befriend Iran and provide arms to that nation in exchange for its resistance to the Soviet Union and, more particularly to assist in the freeing of American hostages held by Muslim extremist groups in the Middle East.
The first Independent Monitoring Commission report in April 2004 estimated the UVF / RHC had " a few hundred " active members " based mainly in the Belfast and immediately adjacent areas " The UVF weaponry was limited to small arms, with its sporadic bombing efforts being made using stolen quarrying explosives.
If the Sudanese government did not do so or if it interfered with humanitarian efforts, the Act authorized the President of the U. S. to seek a UN Security Council resolution for an arms embargo and to actively seek other financial and diplomatic methods to influence the conduct of the Sudanese Government.
The idea of " gentry " in the continental sense of noblesse is extinct in England and is likely to remain so, in spite of the efforts of certain enthusiasts to revive it ( see A. C. Fox-Davies, Armorial Families, Edinburgh, 1895, The right to bear arms, 1900 ).
* The chief United Nations arms inspector Hans Blix says Iraq appears to be making fresh efforts to cooperate with U. N. teams hunting weapons of mass destruction, while Washington says the " momentum is building " for war with Iraq.
The EU stated that "... a test of an anti-satellite weapon is inconsistent with international efforts to avert an arms race in outer space and undermines security in outer space .".
The Gatehouse was mainly built thanks to the efforts of Sir Thomas Lovell, the Treasurer at the time, who provided at least a third of the funds and oversaw the construction itself — as a result, his coat of arms hang on the gate, along with those of the Earl of Lincoln and Henry VIII ( the king at the time ).
The switch was made in response to the 1995 awarding of the Nobel Prize to the International Pugwash conferences " for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and in the longer run to eliminate such arms ".
In the programme, Phúc related how she was involved through her foundation in the efforts to secure medical treatment in Canada for Ali Abbas, who had lost both arms in a rocket attack on Baghdad during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Although both types were impervious to small arms fire, the T-1000 frequently suffered knockback which delayed its pursuit efforts, while the T-800 had a sturdier frame.
Bentsen provided crucial support for President Carter's arms control efforts and ratification of the Panama Canal Treaty.
He became one of the main arbiters of the Chōshū domain's policy and continued to act as the domain's expert on Western military science, devoting his efforts to importing arms and raising troops.
Takasugi ’ s efforts had made a small-scale ‘ nation in arms ’ out of Chōshū, giving it a military strength out of proportion to its relatively small size.
The aftermath of the crisis led to the first efforts in the nuclear arms race at nuclear disarmament and improving relations, although the Cold War's first arms control agreement, the Antarctic Treaty, had come into force in 1961.
Although President Jimmy Carter tried to place another limit on the arms race with a SALT II agreement in 1979, his efforts were undermined by the other events that year, including the Iranian Revolution and the KGB-backed Nicaraguan Revolution, which both ousted pro-US regimes, and his retaliation against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in December.
Alarmed at the imminent danger of war, he confined his efforts to inducing the Johannesburgers to lay down their arms on condition that the raiders ' lives were spared, not knowing that these terms had already been granted to Jameson.

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