Scott's subordinates back at base were unsure of Scott's intentions, and consequently failed to use the dogs in a concerted attempt to relieve the returning polar party when the need arose.

The fall of Wallingford appeared imminent and Henry marched south in an attempt to relieve the siege, arriving with a small army and placing Stephen's besieging forces under siege themselves.

When in June 1756 Minorca fell after a failed attempt by Admiral Byng to relieve it, Pitt's allegations fuelled the public anger against Newcastle-leading him to be attacked by a mob in Greenwich.

* May 14 – The French first attempt to relieve the Siege of Compiègne.

In Natal, the Battle of the Tugela Heights, which started on 14 February was Buller's fourth attempt to relieve Ladysmith.

In a final attempt to cut the German supply lines in northeast France, Bourbaki's army marched north to attack the Prussian siege of Belfort and relieve the beleaguered French defenders.

The army attempting to relieve Narbonne met him in open battle at the Battle of the River Berre and was destroyed, but Charles failed in his attempt to take Narbonne by siege in 737, when the city was jointly defended by its Muslim Arab and Berber, and its Christian Visigothic citizens.

This attempt to relieve his pain was tried despite the ban.

Although it had historical precursors, this idea derived its main impetus from a famous report by Scoville and Brenda Milner describing the results of surgical destruction of the hippocampus ( in an attempt to relieve epileptic seizures ), in a patient named Henry Gustav Molaison, known until his death in 2008 as H. M.

Between August and October 1387 he was in command of a naval force in an attempt to relieve the siege of Brest.

An attempt to relieve Naples by sea was badly bungled when Totila was informed during unnecessary delays, and a storm dispersed a second attempt, delivering the general, Demetrius, into Totila's hands.

References made to Valladolid, Segovia, El Escorial and Madrid suggest the novel takes place within the build-up to the Republican attempt to relieve the siege of Madrid.

This contract was nullified by The Beach Boys ' management, who perceived it as an attempt by Wilson to relieve the growing burden of his drug expenses.

In an attempt to relieve the burden on his bowlers, Bradman took a rare turn at bowling.

Since its 1998 reopening, the station has been open at the same times as most other stations, including weekends, in an attempt to relieve the pressure on the increasingly busy nearby station.

The fall of Wallingford appeared imminent and Henry marched south in an attempt to relieve the siege, arriving with a small army and placing Stephen's besieging forces under siege themselves.

At the same time, after the New Model Army had abandoned an attempt to relieve Taunton, Parliament's Committee of Both Kingdoms had directed Fairfax, its commander, to besiege Oxford, the King's wartime capital.

Bernhard felt that whatever the odds an attempt must be made to relieve Nordlingen.

The name of the post office was changed to Adams Station in an attempt to relieve that confusion.

People who self-harm are not usually seeking to end their own life ; it has been suggested instead that they are using self-harm as a coping mechanism to relieve emotional pain or discomfort or as an attempt to communicate distress.

In the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro ( 3 – 6 May 1811 ), the British-Portuguese Army under Viscount Wellington checked an attempt by the French Army of Portugal under Marshal André Masséna to relieve the besieged city of Almeida.

Napoleon Bonaparte's 23, 000 Frenchmen defeated an attack of 28, 000 Austrians under Feldzeugmeister Jozsef Alvinczi, ending Austria's fourth and final attempt to relieve the Siege of Mantua.

In a combat at La Junquera on 7 June, Pérignon repulsed a Spanish attempt to relieve Bellegarde, though La Barre was killed while leading his troopers.

Next day, reports went through the Department that Rooney had been outraged by what he considered a patent attempt to put public pressure on him for increased entertainment allowances and had sworn an oath that, that year, expense allowances would not rise a dollar.

This technique is also very useful for compounds which boil beyond their decomposition temperature at atmospheric pressure and which would therefore be decomposed by any attempt to boil them under atmospheric pressure.

Newer wood drying technologies have included the use of reduced atmospheric pressure to attempt to speed up the drying process.

Generally, a turbo-normalized system will attempt to maintain a manifold pressure of.

Civil society, opposition parties, and many members of the ruling party complimented widespread popular opposition to exert sufficient pressure on Chiluba to force him to back away from any attempt at a third term.

It was inspired by two Sun Microsystems ' products, the Wabi for the Solaris operating system, and the Public Windows Initiative ( an attempt to get the Windows API fully reimplemented in the public domain as an ISO standard, but rejected by the entity due to pressure from Microsoft in 1996 ).

On the National Geographic Channel television program, " Dangerous Encounters with Brady Barr ", Dr. Brady Barr measured the bite force of an adult female hippo at 8100 N ( 1821 lbf ); Barr also attempted to measure the bite pressure of an adult male hippo, but had to abandon the attempt due to the male's aggressiveness.

This may have been done in an attempt to allow the brain to expand in the case of increased brain fluid pressure, for example, after head injuries.

Stoliar impulsively called Groucho Marx to enlist Groucho's support for an unlikely campaign to attempt to persuade — or pressure — Universal to re-release the film.

In an attempt to pressure Lord Aylesford to drop his divorce suit, Lady Aylesford and Lord Randolph Churchill called on Alexandra and told her that if the divorce was to proceed they would subpoena her husband as a witness and implicate him in the scandal.

Tarkin orders the Death Star to destroy Leia's home world of Alderaan in an attempt to pressure her into giving him the location of the secret Rebel base ; she gives them a ( false ) location, but Tarkin has the planet destroyed anyway.

Though the Tutsi objective seemed to be to pressure the Rwandan government into making concessions, the invasion was seen as an attempt to bring the Tutsi ethnic group back into power.

INC was subsequently plagued by dissociation of many of its constituent groups from the INC umbrella, a cutoff of funds from its international backers ( including the United States ), and continued pressure from Iraqi intelligence services especially after a failed 1995 coup attempt.

Under pressure from political radicals in the Mouvement pour l ' évolution sociale de l ' Afrique noire ( Movement for the Social Evolution of Black Africa or MESAN ) and in an attempt to cultivate alternative sources of support and display his ability to make foreign policy without the help of the French government, Dacko established diplomatic relations with Mao Zedong's People's Republic of China ( PRC ) in September 1964.

Religious superiors met their bishops ' pressure with the response that the austere and cloistered ideal was no longer acceptable to more than a tiny minority of regular clergy, and that any attempt on their part to enforce their order's stricter rules could be overturned in counter-actions in the secular courts, were aggrieved monks and nuns to obtain a writ of praemunire.

Marston is credited as the creator of the systolic blood pressure test used in an attempt to detect deception, which became one component of the modern polygraph.

Using their mobility and tactical initiative, these units would attempt to alleviate the pressure of enemy armored columns and air strikes on smaller TO units.

Nicholas did not survive the second attempt across the Alps ; back home his father was arrested and hanged under pressure from angry families whose relatives had perished while following the child.

The first attempt at a combined high school only lasted for three years in the 1970s before district officials broke up the school due to public pressure.

The Imperials and the Catholic League were facing increasingly severe pressure in the war from the French, Swedes and their Protestant allies and were struggling to prevent a French attempt to advance into Bavaria.

The downfall of socialism has reduced revenue to local governments, increasing pressure for local governments to attempt to supplement their income using prison labor.

Vehement debate ensued, and the legal pressure from cities like Arlington, Duncanville and Irving wound up overturning the unprecedented annexation attempt.