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For decades, Germany's allies had stated their support for reunification ; Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who speculated that a country that " decided to kill millions of Jewish people " in the Holocaust " will try to do it again ", was one of the few world leaders to publicly oppose it.
Of these five, he is the most reluctant to go along with their plans or adventures, but does not oppose them because he believes it to be futile to try.
This struggle posed a question: if the end result was, in any realistic case, destined to be a dictatorship, should the US not try to align itself with the dictator who will best serve American interests and oppose the Soviets?
During the Kamakura Period, the Tendai school used its patronage to try to oppose the growth of rival factions — particularly the Nichiren school, which began to grow in power among the merchant middle class, and the Pure Land school, which eventually came to claim the loyalty of many of the poorer classes.
He says, " I still oppose abortion and would try my best to convince any woman in my family to carry the baby to term.
Since atoms in solids always try to find an equilibrium position, and distance between other atoms, forces arise throughout the entire material which oppose both tension or compression.
Private universities ' administrations often oppose their graduate students when they try to form unions, arguing that students should be exempt from labor laws intended for " employees ".
The sole reason for his ruling the city is that he is fiercely loyal to it, although it is also at times been implied that he does it because it amuses him to do so, in the sense that he enjoys outwitting all the people who try to oppose him.
" The Christians and the Pagans " on Mortal City simultaneously tackles both religion and sexual orientation through a tale of a lesbian / pagan couple that chooses to spend solstice with the devout Christian uncle of one of the women, thus creating a situation where people who would oppose each other on almost every political and cultural front try to get by on pure politeness.
* Section 2709 failed to spell out any legal process whereby a telephone or Internet company could try to oppose an NSL subpoena in court and
Philip seems to have moved around Greece in the months after the battle, making peace with the states that opposed him, dealing with the Spartans, and installing garrisons ; his movements also probably served as a demonstration of force to the other cities, that they should not try to oppose him.
Members who work as teachers, for instance, target policies in the schools that they consider racist, single them out for being so, and sometimes try to launch campaigns involving both teachers and students to oppose those measures ( such as metal detectors in schools, or increased police presence in front of or inside school buildings ).
Many of these supposed seminar callers try to portray themselves as regular people, claim to agree with the host's point of view, then begin to read a contrary opinion from an agenda or list of talking points widely circulated by a group or organization who oppose the views of the host.
They decide to try losing their next game on purpose, and thereby get out of the running for the state championship, but the teams they oppose all have exactly the same idea-they hate baseball as much as the South Park kids do, and while trying desperately to lose, the South Park Cows manage again and again to beat their opponents, whose efforts at throwing games are more successful.
At the school there was also a workshop for preparing white overalls activists planning to oppose the Schengen Agreement by dressing up in ice hockey pads and other similar defensive material and then by non-violent means try to enter the EU Summit the following day.
The school district said that it was going to try to oppose the closure order.

try and general
Many shareholders grant proxies to the directors to vote their shares at general meetings and accept all recommendations of the board rather than try to get involved in management, since each shareholder's power, as well as interest and information is so small.
Some take the approach of looking for coherent justifications of established copyright systems, while others start with general ethical theories, such as utilitarianism and try to analyse policy through that lens.
It is possible for people to try a variation of Varshitap by eating every alternate day, in general.
However, this practice is not extensively used in regular Leet ; more often it is seen in situations where the argot ( i. e., " secret language ") characteristics of the system are required, either to exclude newbies or outsiders in general, i. e., anything that the average reader cannot make sense of is valid ; a valid reader should himself try to make sense, if deserving of the underlying message.
In general: refers to how some things are inevitable, no matter how long you try and postpone it.
When using contracts, a supplier should not try to verify that the contract conditions are satisfied ; the general idea is that code should " fail hard ", with contract verification being the safety net.
In the case of an inconsistency, the general tendency is to try to make minimal modifications to the model to fit the data.
When the Achaean League's general, Philopoemen, intervenes to try to control the rebellion, he is captured during a skirmish and imprisoned.
In 1999, the company hired former assistant attorney general Anne Bingaman, married to Democratic New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman, as a Washington lobbyist, paying her $ 2. 5 million between January and June 1999 to try to block licensing of an AT & T, MCI, and Sprint consortium cable from the U. S. to Japan.
As the new Managing General Partner, Arison hired Dave Wohl as general manager, who fired head coach Kevin Loughery and replaced him with Alvin Gentry on an interim basis to try to shake up the 17 – 30 Heat.
Having determined that Hamilton had departed for Cabool, ex-Sheriff James Cantrell phoned the Cabool general store and asked they try to detain Hamilton until they could arrive to arrest him.
Further, coping is flexible in that, in general, the individual examines the effectiveness of the coping on the situation ; if it is not having the desired effect, s / he will, in general, try different strategies.
The Palatinate cause was a popular Protestant issue in England, and in 1637 a general public subscription helped fund an expedition under Charles Louis to try and regain the electorate as part of a joint French campaign.
Following his meeting with the spy and fearing that the Austrian general might try to escape, Bonaparte spread his army out in a wide net by sending Louis Desaix with GdD Jean Boudet ’ s division ( 6, 000 men ) south to Novi Ligure and GdD Jean François Cornu de La Poype ( 3, 500 men ) north on the other bank of the Po.
His decisions to replace standing soldiers with mercenaries and leaving the frontier fortifications unrepaired saw Constantine become naturally unpopular with the supporters of Isaac within the military aristocracy, who attempted to assassinate him in 1061 ; he was also unpopular with the general population, after he finally raised taxes to try to pay the army.
Still, just as their songs were a cut above, so did the team try to raise the standard of the musical form in general.
So one cannot ( as some psychometricians try to do ) assess such things as “ creativity ” in any general sense.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who described the period of looting in general as " untidiness ", said of the museum's looting, " To try to pass off the fact of that unfortunate activity to a deficit in the war plan strikes me as a stretch.
As the Romans extended their dominance throughout the Mediterranean world, their policy in general was to absorb the deities and cults of other peoples rather than try to eradicate them, since they believed that preserving tradition promoted social stability.
As the Romans extended their dominance throughout the Mediterranean world, their policy in general was to absorb the deities and cults of other peoples rather than try to eradicate them, since they believed that preserving tradition promoted social stability.
The appeal to novelty is based on the reasoning that in general people will tend to try to improve the outputs resulting from their efforts.
Studies have shown that the general population respond to people with a disfigurement with less trust, less respect and often try to avoid making contact or having to look at the disfigurement.
Connectionist work in general need not be biologically realistic, but some neural network researchers, computational neuroscientists, try to model the biological aspects of natural neural systems very closely in so-called " neuromorphic networks ".

try and religious
The writings always have the central message of the bible ; Cyril doesn ’ t try to add his own beliefs in reference to religious interpretation and remains grounded in true biblical teachings.
Still, sometimes, even leading religious authorities and theologians misleadingly present their fatwā as obligatory, or try to adopt some " in-between " position.
The main provisions of the Edict of Nantes were as follows: a ) Huguenots were allowed to hold religious services in certain towns in each province, b ) They were allowed to control and fortify eight cities ( including La Rochelle and Montauban ), c ) Special courts were established to try Huguenot offenders, d ) Huguenots were to have equal civil rights with the Catholics.
Philosophy does not try to answer questions by appeal to revelation, myth or religious knowledge of any kind, but uses reason, " without reference to sensible observation and experiments ".
In 2008, the organizers of an APA panel on the relationship between religion and homosexuality canceled the event after gay activists objected that " conversion therapists and their supporters on the religious right use these appearances as a public relations event to try and legitimize what they do.
Such an approach allowed religious philosophers such as Thomas Aquinas and Étienne Gilson to try to show that reason and revelation are compatible.
Another aspect concerns people ’ s attitudes towards the relation between religion and politics and whether they approve of religious spokesmen who try to influence government decisions and people ’ s voting preferences.
In the 1990s, the organization sent delegations of religious leaders and peace activists to Iraq to try to prevent war and later, to see the massive devastation caused by the economic sanctions imposed upon Iraq.
It generated speculation that the presence of a young member of India's most famous political family would reinvigorate the Congress party's political fortunes among India's youthful population In his first interview with foreign media, Gandhi portrayed himself as a uniter of the country and condemned " divisive " politics in India, saying that he would try to reduce caste and religious tensions.
That is to say, they need to empathetically ( Einfühlung ) try and understand the religion from within .... The life examined by the religious studies scholar, insists van der Leeuw, needs to " acquire its place in the life of the student himself who should understand it out of his inner self.
The Sama is only one of the many Sufi ceremonies performed to try to reach religious ecstasy ( majdhb, fana ).
Later developments within the Hindu religious and philosophic tradition thus try to unify these concepts of ritual, proper conduct, and personal salvation instead of leaving them in mutually conflicting terms.
Fellow Knight of the Round Table Sir Calogrenant and a religious hermit try to intervene, but Lionel slays them both when they get in the way.
Though his ambition led him at times to try his skill in large religious, historical and mythological compositions, his claim to fame depends chiefly on his landscapes and paintings of peasants carousing, of kermesse scenes and the like, which are marked by a healthy sense of humour, and which are not infrequently confused with the early works of his son David.
They try to recognize, as author Jack Good has written: " the fingerprints of humankind on all religious documents and symbols.
Among those, the US would be wise to welcome religious believers of all stripes who renounce violence and extremism, rather than try to apply the separation of church and state overseas.
Kwesi Yankah and John Mbiti argue that many African peoples today have a ' mixed ' religious heritage to try to reconcile traditional religions with Abrahamic faiths.
Bors proves himself worthy of the Grail when he refuses to fight back, and Lionel kills a religious hermit and Sir Calogrenant, a fellow Knight of the Round Table, when they try to protect Bors from his wrath.
They saw no reason to try to understand his religious beliefs, indeed thought them so bizarre as to be incomprehensible by normal people. 2 The negotiators expressed deep regret at this state of affairs, but could see no alternatives to the way they had come to understand the situation.
The latter marched west ; on his way, he convinced the local religious leader of Simnan, Shaikh ' Ala ' al-Daula, to try to negotiate a truce, and then camped near Qazvin.
In the countryside it is possible for there to still exist village tribunals that try community members according to custom and religious law ; however this is not adjudicated or enforced by the state.
Politicians around the world recognize the power of religion, and therefore they usually try to keep on the good side of religious authorities and believers.
In his essay Concepts and Craft in Remodernist Film, Richards said that Remodernist film craft " embraces the amateur ", involves the idea of filmmakers " teaching themselves to paint pictures, to try acting in their own movies and those of others ( especially if they are shy ), to be nude models for other artists, to meditate, worship if they are religious, to do things that affect their levels of consciousness, try things that make them nervous or uncomfortable, to go out and be involved in life, to find adventure, to jump in the ocean.

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