Two noted examples of attempts to establish a paremiological minimum in America are by Haas ( 2008 ) and Hirsch, Kett, and Trefil ( 1988 ).

Two later attempts represented the enthusiasm of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi ; these were the Federation of Arab Republics which lasted five years and the Arab Islamic Republic which never emerged in practice.

Two subsequent attempts to resolve the problem by means of a negotiated political settlement by James Baker, acting as Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary General, the first in 2000 and the second in 2003, failed to gain acceptance, the first being rejected by the Polisario and second by Morocco.

Two attempts were made on the life of the president of the IFTU's Kirkuk branch.

Two Turkic attempts to push east of the broad Jamuna and Brahmaputra rivers were repulsed, but a third led by Mughisuddin Tughral conquered the Sonargaon area south of Dhaka to Faridpur, bringing the Sen Kingdom officially to an end by 1277.

Two earlier attempts to formally recognize the holiday had been defeated by Congress.

Two attempts at English settlement were subsequently made ( in 1609 and 1610 ), but each was abandoned, as the native inhabitants were not willing to give up their capital without a fight.

Two attempts to capture the arched steel bridge and its southern approach failed.

Two attempts by the Japanese to continue their strategic initiative and offensively extend their outer defensive perimeter in the south and central Pacific to where they could threaten Australia and Hawaii or the US West Coast were thwarted at the naval battles of Coral Sea and Midway respectively.

Two assassination attempts were orchestrated against Napoleon III, one in April 1855 and the other in January 1858.

The Boston Barracudas raced in the British League Division Two, ( now the Premier League ) and in 1973 completed a clean sweap winning the League, Knock-out Cup, and Arthur Price won the League Individual Championship, after the New Hammond Beck Road Stadium was sold for re-development in 1988 attempts to secure a new venue failed in the 1990s a team, known as Boston, raced in the Conference League out of King's Lynn

Two subsequent attempts were made for incorporation, the last resulting in favor of incorporation.

Two attempts were made to make a television series based on the character.

Two alternative strategies have been used in the attempts to reduce the African trypanosomiases.

Two failed attempts — 1959 and 1968 — have been made to change to the United Kingdom's Plurality voting system (' First-past-the-post ') electoral system.

Two attempts to carry the works by storm during the Siege of Port Hudson, as at Vicksburg, were dismal failures.

Two attempts were made by the Prime Minister H. H. Asquith during World War I to implement the Third Home Rule Act, first in May 1916 which failed on reaching agreement with Unionist Ulster, then again in 1917 with the calling of the Irish Convention chaired by Horace Plunkett.

* Two policemen waiting for Angelo in their car as he attempts to retrieve the diamonds.

In March 2006, BBC Two broadcast Pinochet in Suburbia, a docudrama about former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and the attempts to extradite him from Great Britain ; Jacobi played the leading role.

Two attempts by a Brussels army to conquer Halle in 1489 failed.

Two more attempts by the Holy League to land their forces, this time near the fortress of Preveza at the opposite shore facing Actium, were repulsed by the forces of Murat Reis on 25 and 26 September.

Julian Ward Jones Jr. in his article “ The So-Called Silvestris Commentary on the Aeneid and Two Other Interpretation ” attempts to clear up the issue of authorship in the Aeneid commentary by interpreting two distinct positions, the first by E. R.

In several episodes, his attempts to escape his prison the Village would be foiled, either by Number Two, the place's chief administrator, who was frequently changed, or by Rover, an enigmatic artificial guardian that resembles a weather balloon.

Two mated sheathbills often work together to harass adult penguins, nimbly avoiding their attempts to peck ; they gain access to the eggs or chicks or steal the krill that the adult penguins regurgitate to feed their chicks.

Two late Sonatas, Op. 110 and 111, were played with similar insight, the disarming simplicities of the Op. 111 Adagio made plain without ever becoming obvious.

Two species are described in the literature: A. ramidus, which lived about 4. 4 million years ago during the early Pliocene, and A. kadabba, dated to approximately 5. 6 million years ago ( late Miocene ).

It is not certain when Cervantes began writing Part Two of Don Quixote, but he had probably not gotten much further than Chapter LIX by late July 1614.

" Don Quixote, Part Two, published by the same press as its predecessor, appeared late in 1615, and quickly reprinted in Brussels and Valencia ( 1616 ) and Lisbon ( 1617 ).

Two of the countries in the ECU basket of currencies, UK and Denmark, did not join the eurozone, and a third, Greece, joined late.

Two manuscripts are known to have existed, both dated to the late 16th century and written respectively in Italian and in Spanish — although the Spanish manuscript is now lost, its text surviving only in a partial 18th-century transcript.

Two British physicists, Andrew Noble and Frederick Abel, worked to improve the properties of blackpowder during the late 19th century.

Two sketches of it were discovered in 1957, too late to have any impact on the development of mechanical calculators.

Two other highlights happen late in the day.

Two of these, the Jahwist, composed in the 10th century BC, and the Priestly source, from the late 7th century BC, make up the chapters of Genesis which concern Noah.

Most of the ancients, including the first two just mentioned, refer to his work by his name: " Pytheas says ..." Two late writers give titles: the astronomical author Geminus of Rhodes mentions ( ta peri tou Okeanou ), literally " things about the Ocean ", sometimes translated as " Description of the Ocean ", " On the Ocean " or " Ocean ;" Marcianus, the scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, mentions a ( periodos gēs ), a " trip around the earth " or ( periplous ), " sail around.

Two cupids can also be seen fluttering around the fleeing Scylla in the late painting of the scene by J. M. W.

Two models have been proposed: the intron late and intron early models ( see intron evolution ).

( 1961 ) Two soundings in the Badger Hole near Wookey Hole in 1958 and their bearing on the Palaeolithic finds of the late H. E.

Two helix-turbine mill sites of almost identical design were found at Chemtou and Testour, modern-day Tunisia, dating to the late 3rd or early 4th century AD.

Two British frigates that were supposed to be on patrol outside the bay were trapped inside the bay by de Grasse's arrival ; this prevented the British in New York from learning the full strength of de Grasse's fleet until it was too late.

In Hong Kong, those early think tanks established in the late 1980s and early 1990s focused on the political development including first direct Legislative Council members election in 1991 and the political framework of " One Country, Two Systems " manifested in the Sino-British Joint Declaration.

The TV show Jackass spawned four films: Jackass: The Movie in 2001, Jackass: Number Two in 2006, Jackass 2. 5 in late 2007, and Jackass 3D in 2010.

* Battle of Kawagoe: Two branches of the Uesugi families are defeated by the late Hōjō clan in Japan.

In the late 1980s, a proposal was put forth for the Two Forks Dam, which would have created a reservoir flooding the entire section from the North Fork confluence to the town of Deckers.

Two additional groups claim the name Bill Haley's Comets and have extensively toured in the United States since forming in the 1980s: one originally Haley's 1965 – 68 drummer John " Bam-Bam " Lane, the other run by Al Rappa who played bass for Haley off-and-on between late 1959 and early 1969 ( the 1956 album " Strictly Instrumental " on Decca was Al Rappa's first recording session with Bill Haley & His Comets.

Two very fragmentary fossils are often assigned to the Alcidae, although this may not be correct: Hydrotherikornis ( late Eocene ) and Petralca ( Late Oligocene ).

Two similar zero-length launch experimental programs were carried out by the US Air Force and by the Soviet VVS at around the same time in the late 1950s.

Two of the later novels, however, were written late enough to receive such accolades.

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