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It was also the first attempt at a systematic exposition of Christian theology in Latin, planned on a scale sufficiently broad to silence all opponents.
Also discussed is the way that corporations abuse copyright laws in order to silence anyone who might attempt to criticize their brand.
Anti-SLAPP ( strategic lawsuit against public participation ) laws can be applied in an attempt to curb alleged abuses of the legal system by individuals or corporations who utilize the courts as a weapon to retaliate against whistle blowers, victims, or to silence another's speech.
They dated for the next 20 years, and in 1983 Washington proposed to Smith in an attempt to silence questions about Washington's sexual orientation.
In another attempt to silence Bazzetta, Daimler later offered to settle his termination of employment suit out of court and he eventually accepted a settlement.
After Queen Victoria learns of the blackmail attempt, Gull is once again enlisted, this time to silence the group of women who are threatening the crown.
" Unable to silence Qutb by incarceration, Nasser accused him of conspiring with the Saudis in attempt to assassinate him and had Qutb executed in 1966 as a result ; the Muslim Brotherhood consequently sentenced Nasser to death.
The response of a portion of the Left to such challenge, has been an attempt to silence and misinterpret, to " turn the SI safely into an art movement, and thereby to minimize its role in the political and social movements of the sixties.
Of the adaptation he wrote " it represents an attempt to render Shakespeare's early chaotic work fit for the German stage without having the Shakespearean atrocities and grotesqueries passed over in silence.
In 2011 ( due to recent news stories revolving around celebrities taking out super injunctions in an attempt to protect themselves from scandal ), Roger goes to his crooked solicitor attempting to silence his ex-wife from releasing a book about their violent marriage which also details Roger's ' questionable ' hobbies.
According to Carrie Ann Sitren of the Goldwater Institute, this was “ a clear attempt to silence people in the community who have been critical of the board s actions, and have made good-faith attempts to ensure the district is spending taxpayer money wisely .” None of the records requested were private or confidential, and thus, should have been readily available to be released to the public, according to the assistant state Ombudsman.
After losing the case Grenville lost favor from the public who regarded the act as an attempt to silence or control the press .< ref name =" George Grenville ( 1712-1770 ), Britannia "> </ span ></ font ></ ref >
Rashid Khalidi, a professor at Columbia University who was the subject of a critical dossier on the website, suggested that the Campus Watch campaign was an attempt to silence legitimate criticism, " by tarring it with the brush of anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism, truly loathsome charges.
Flagg's magical attempt to silence a dissenter is transformed into a giant glowing hand — " The Hand of God " — which detonates the bomb, destroying Las Vegas and all of Flagg's followers, along with Larry and Ralph.
They were used as Human Shields in an attempt to silence the Confederate artillery at Fort Sumter and soon became known in the South as the Immortal Six Hundred.
Assassinations were also used to silence dissent, such as the attempt to kill high-ranking defector Ion Mihai Pacepa, who received two death sentences from Romania in 1978, and Ceauşescu decreed a bounty of two million US dollars for his death.
Many moderates and liberals in mainline denominations accuse the Confessing Movements of being part of an attempt by well-funded outsiders such as Institute on Religion and Democracy ( a group founded by the prominent neoconservatives Michael Novak and Richard John Neuhaus ) to silence the social agenda of the mainline Protestant denominations, rather than being a series of organically arising movements within various Protestant denominations as the Confessing Movements ' leaders often claim it to be.
As reported by the CBC, publisher Dan McLeod said this re-interpretation of the rules was a politically motivated attempt to silence a persistent critic.
Since he began making his findings public, Professor Faurisson has been subject to a vicious campaign of harassment, intimidation, slander and physical violence in a crude attempt to silence him.
Allison Gill, director of Human Rights Watch in Moscow, has said " This outrageous police raid shows the poisonous climate for non-governmental organisations in Russia [...] This is an overt attempt by the Russian government [...] to silence critical voices.
Despite the presiding judge's attempt to silence Gilligan, he continued to blame a botched Gardaí investigation and planted evidence as the reason for his current imprisonment.
However, he is forced to protect the prisoner and go to ground in the city when a Blood Pact insertion team storms the facility in an attempt to silence the prisoner.
Borchgrevink did attempt to establish a routine, and scientific work was carried on throughout, but as he wrote himself, referring to the general lack of fellowship: " The silence roars in one's ears ".
Their resignations were an attempt to silence criticism from the defeated New Court faction that they held their seats in defiance of the will of the people.

attempt and Muir
In an attempt to quickly deal with the situation, CIA executives call in Nathan Muir ( Robert Redford ), an aging mid-level case officer on his last day before retirement and the man who recruited Bishop.
After realizing Hadley was the target of Bishop's rescue attempt, Muir finally learns that he greatly underestimated Bishop's feelings for her.
Running out of time, Muir secretly creates a forged urgent operational directive from the CIA director to commence Operation Dinner Out, a rescue mission spearheaded by Commander Wiley's ( Dale Dye ) U. S. Navy SEAL team, which Bishop laid the groundwork for as a " Plan B " to his own rescue attempt.
When Magneto was reduced to infancy, he was entrusted to Moira's care on Muir Island, where she altered his genetic code in an attempt to keep him from reverting to villainy.
At Muir Island, MacTaggert manipulated the infant Magneto's genetic code in an attempt to prevent him from becoming " evil " in adulthood.
Shortly thereafter, Nicholson-Muir Productions ( owned by Nick Nicholson and E. Roger Muir ) acquired from NBC the rights to produce the New Howdy Doody Show, an attempt by Buffalo Bob and most of the old cast to recreate their past fame.
Muir acting on behalf of the elders challenged the attempt of the landlords or heritors to pack the selection committee for a new minister with Parchment Barons ’.
It was against such a background of despondency that Muir, in a desperate attempt to prevent an irreversible set-back to the reform movement, left London for France in an eleventh hour bid to persuade the French leaders to spare the life of the King.
During the long voyage out to Australia an attempt was made ( with or without official connivance ) to discredit Muir, Skirving and Palmer by implicating them in an alleged mutiny led by the first mate.
Saved from being a quick meal by Anole and Prodigy, Surge leads the team against Predator X in an attempt to stop it from attacking the injured students, and is teleported alongside Beast, the other combatants, Predator X, and the injured to Muir Island right in the middle of the X-Men's battle with Sinister and Exodus ' forces with Pixie's spell.

attempt and was
Above me a dark rider was whipping his pony with a quirt in an attempt to hurdle the bales.
Glowering looks met them in the bar, but there was no attempt to halt them.
So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.
She was occupying herself in an attempt to write an article about the variety of houses that they had rented abroad.
Cuban S.S.R.: Whatever may have been the setbacks resulting from the unsuccessful attempt of the Cuban rebels to establish a beachhead on the Castro-held mainland last week, there was at least one positive benefit, and that was the clear-cut revelation to the whole world of the complete conversion of Cuba into a Russian-dominated military base.
Thus, a finding of conspiracy to restrain trade or attempt to monopolize was excluded from the Court's decision.
Never a `` quick study '', he now made no attempt to learn his `` lines '' and many a mile of film was wasted, many a scene -- sometimes involving as many as a thousand fellow thespians -- was taken thirty, forty, fifty times because Miss Poitrine's co-star and `` helpmate '' had never learned his part.
A rough attempt was made to characterize the vertical profile of the cloud by taking samples from outside the windows on the first, ninth, and fifteenth floors of a Government office building.
In an attempt to reverse the downhill trend by stimulating the bone marrow and controlling any hemolytic component, triamcinolone, 16 mg. daily, was begun on Sept. 26, 1958, and continued until Feb. 18, 1959.
Following Day was Woodbury who spoke of his disapproval of Brown's attempt at servile insurrection, his admiration of Brown's character, and his opposition to slavery.
And if it was not an individual who was in the dock, why was the Trial, as we shall observe later, all but scuttled in the attempt to prove Eichmann a `` fiend ''??
I make no attempt to measure the enduring satisfaction and material well-being of a man who went to work on graduation from high school and was highly successful in the business which he entered.
It was merely an attempt to frighten her.
Besides, there was something hysterical and silly, something almost childish about an attempt to frighten her.
She paused at the kitchen door, caught her breath, told herself firmly that the opium was only an attempt to frighten her and went into the kitchen, where Glendora was eyeing the chickens dismally and Maude was cleaning lamp chimneys.
Pete Ward was sent in for House and, after failing in a bunt attempt, popped to Howser on the grass back of short.
After a long debate in the House, a second attempt passed Congress on January 13, 1865, and was sent to the state legislatures for ratification.
He never succeeded in devising such a method, but his best attempt was published in his book Sophist, where he introduced his division method.
Von Strahlenberg's classification was the first attempt at classification of a large number of languages some of which are Altaic.

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