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latter and tried
As a matter of fact, this latter approach has already been tried, and with pleasing results.
They note that the discoverers of the two planets around HW Virginis tried to circumvent the naming problem by calling them " HW Vir 3 " and " HW Vir 4 ", i. e. the latter is the 4th object – stellar or planetary – discovered in the system.
During the latter part of the 1660s, the Portuguese tried to gain control of Kongo.
The Portuguese in the latter part of the 16th century tried to gain control of Ndongo but were defeated by the Mbundu.
In the South during the latter part of the American Civil War and during the Reconstruction Era, many former Whigs tried to regroup in the South, calling themselves " Conservatives " and hoping to reconnect with the ex-Whigs in the North.
Two letters of Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop of Pavia, survive addressed to him, written when the latter tried to regain horses and money he had lent the pope.
In the latter, Barks tried to increase the usability of the character by having plots turn on other magic artifacts, here a flying carpet, not always having to repeat the joke about Scrooge's first coin.
The latter festival came to scandalous prominence in 62 BC, when the politician Clodius Pulcher was tried for his intrusion on the rites, allegedly bent on the seduction of Julius Caesar's wife, whom Caesar later divorced because " Caesar's wife must be above suspicion ".
Of the two remaining neutral countries, Sweden and Portugal, the latter tried in vain to avoid Napoleon's ultimatum ( since 1373, it had had a treaty of alliance with the English which became an alliance with the United Kingdom ).
Boniface tried to induce King Charles to break the treaty, but the latter was only too anxious for peace.
The man who escaped from the blazing house, having recovered, would have tried to help and console the other sufferer ; and the latter might have realized that he was the victim of circumstances over which neither of them had control.
When in 1944 he tried to take up relations with the Soviet Union, the latter refused roughly.
The latter, perceiving that they were losing, tried to send for help, but their messengers were killed by the archers posted to prevent that eventuality.
In the 19th century, cultural anthropology was dominated by an interest in cultural evolution ; most anthropologists assumed that there was a simple distinction between “ primitive ” and “ modern ” religion and tried to provide accounts of how the former evolved into the latter.
In 1986, he moved to the Treasury, first as Financial Secretary to the Treasury, then Chief Secretary to the Treasury ( succeeding John Major in the latter job on Major's promotion to Foreign Secretary in July 1989 ) under Chancellor Nigel Lawson, whom he tried unsuccessfully to persuade not to resign from the government on the morning of 26 October 1989 – Lawson resigned that evening.
Drake tried the latter method initially when looking for oil in Titusville.
We tried boards of 10 × 10 squares and 10 × 8 squares, and we concluded that the latter was preferable because hand-to-hand fights start earlier on it.
At the end of the 2007 – 2008 season Olympiacos won the championship by finishing 2 points ahead of AEK but the latter tried to obtain the Greek League by appealing against a decision that gave Olympiacos 3 points for the illeagal use of Roman Wallner by Apollon Kalamaria in a game between the two of them, however both UEFA and the Court of Arbitration for Sport declined their appeal.
Emperor Hui tried to save Liu Ruyi by intercepting his half brother before the latter entered Chang ' an, and kept Liu Ruyi by his side most of the time.
This was a strong defensive position and these maneuvers pitted the Muslims and Byzantines into a decisive battle, one which the latter had tried to avoid.
The latter tried repeatedly to settle back in their village.
On the latter program, he tried to popularize the catch phrase " Hit me with the digits !".
In March 2000, Mong-koo made his boldest move: he tried to oust Mong-hun as group co-chairman while the latter was on a trip to Beijing and Shanghai.
After the latter, his mother then tried to kill Cletus, and was apparently beaten to the brink of death by Kasady's father, who received no defense from Kasady during his trial.

latter and through
Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.
The latter jobs include major management responsibilities and have been filled by those who have come up primarily through the engineering-management side.
However, the latter figures only represent cash remittances processed through Armenian commercial banks.
The former, he tells the reader, are proved by demonstration, while the latter are given through experience.
The elephant ( though its range has become restricted through the attacks of hunters ) is found both in the savannas and forest regions, the latter being otherwise poor in large game, though the special habitat of the chimpanzee and gorilla.
Although he uses the terms interchangeably, remarks that, for example, the final glides of English par and buy differ from French par (' through ') and baille (' tub ') in that, in the latter pair, the approximants appear in the syllable coda, whereas, in the former, they appear in the syllable nucleus.
The Branco flows nearly south, and finds its way into the Negro through several channels and a chain of lagoons similar to those of the latter river.
Other manufacturers, in reaction to the challenges from using this business model, choose to make more money on printers and less on the ink, promoting the latter through their advertising campaigns.
Capitalism entails the private ownership of the latter two — natural resources and capital goods — by a class of owners called capitalists, either individually, collectively or through a state apparatus that operates for a profit or serves the interests of capital owners.
Later, with Robert Calef's observation of Mather's dealings with Margaret Rule, it became seen as the latter, with Mather perceived as drawing information from her through leading questions, and possibly having a prurient interest -- " Smutty " in Mather's words — in his intimate dealings with afflicted young women.
In the latter, that ruling class dominated through the influence of traditional regional gentry.
The second through fourth of these councils are generally entitled " Christological councils ," with the latter three mainly elucidating what was taught in them and condemning incorrect interpretations.
For Dunedin, George Smith Duncan further developed the Hallidie model, introducing the pull curve and the slot brake ; the former was a way to pull cars through a curve, since Dunedin's curves were too sharp to allow coasting, while the latter forced a wedge down into the cable slot to stop the car.
In the latter case, program and data entry was done at front panel switches directly into memory or through a computer terminal / keyboard, sometimes controlled by a read-only memory ( ROM ) BASIC interpreter ; when power was turned off after running the program, the information so entered vanished.
While the latter part was a boom and bust cycle, the Internet boom is sometimes meant to refer to the steady commercial growth of the Internet with the advent of the world wide web, as exemplified by the first release of the Mosaic web browser in 1993, and continuing through the 1990s.
The process of transformation in the film is David Bowman transitioning through various human ages, first from young man to a dying elderly man, the latter finally transforming into a floating fetus.
It was licensed to RedBrick LLC in 2003, who released the Classic Edition in 2005 and the game's Third Edition in 2009 ( the latter through Mongoose Publishing's Flaming Cobra imprint ).
The latter was a cabinet in which a continuous loop of Dickson's celluloid film ( powered by an electric motor ) was back lit by an incandescent lamp and seen through a magnifying lens.
Instead of trying to approach Christianity through the traditions of the local religion and creating a nativised church as latter fellow Jesuit Matteo Ricci did in China, he was eager for change.
The Manifesto supported the creation of universal suffrage for both men and women ( the latter being realized only partly in late 1925, with all opposition parties banned or disbanded ); proportional representation on a regional basis ; government representation through a corporatist system of " National Councils " of experts, selected from professionals and tradespeople, elected to represent and hold legislative power over their respective areas, including labour, industry, transportation, public health, communications, etc.
East of Oneida and Cazenovia Lakes are the headwaters of the Susquehanna River and Hudson River watersheds ( the former in the foothills of the Catskills, the latter through the Mohawk Valley and southern Adirondack Mountains ).
When the World Cup began, Banks was in goal as England got through their group containing Uruguay, Mexico and France, drawing 0 – 0 with the former and clinching 2 – 0 victories over the latter.
It posits itself in opposition to positive law, as the latter depicts itself in social reality and methodologically in the objective " should-have " sense of law, which reveals itself through value-related interpretation.

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