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 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.

Two attempts in the late 1940s to reinvent the Victoria Hall as a theatre were unsuccessful.

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 men were on duty inside, playing pinochle, relaxed.

Two of the new hands, a Mexican named Jose Amado and a kid known only as Laredo, were picked for the first trick of riding night herd.

Two of the principal addresses were delivered by prominent Protestants, and when the speaker was a Catholic, one `` discussant '' on the dais tended to be of another religious persuasion.

Two of our men were killed, a third was wounded.

Two gas lamps were no more than a misleading glow.

Two men he did not recognize were sipping coffee and munching sweet rolls.

Two hundred and nineteen were received from 35 of our 50 United States and 11 came from foreign countries.

Two special issues were published, one for November 1959 on Space Medicine, the other the Tenth Anniversary issue for January 1960.

Two friends were talking.

Two of the fluids showed a high-positive normal pressure when undergoing shear, and two showed small negative pressures which were negligible in comparison with the amount of the positive pressures generated by the other two.

Two types of light source were used, a thousand watt projection lamp and an AH6 high pressure mercury arc.

Two other end-use areas which contributed to expandable styrene's growth during the year were packaging ( molded inserts replacing complicated cardboard units ) and foamed-core building panels.

Two of these were included in Palfrey's lot.

Two bequests were recorded: one of $200 under the will of Mrs. Harriet A. Copp of Los Angeles ; ;

Two millions were added to what had been set aside for it in Mrs. Meeker's lifetime, and the proviso made that as long as Brian Thayer continued to discharge his duties as administrator of the fund to the satisfaction of the board of trustees ( hereinafter appointed by the bank administering the estate ) he was to be retained in his present capacity at a salary commensurate with the increased responsibilities enlargement of the fund would entail.

Two women, who had been chattering like parrots, were struck dumb.

Two tax revision bills were passed.

Two other cases also were under advisement.

-- Two Americans and seven Cubans were executed by firing squads today as Castro military tribunals began decreeing the death penalty for captured invasion forces and suspected collaborators.

Two were in the same band 18 years ago ; ;

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 other Japanese girls were sitting at the tables, both quite pretty and well groomed.

Two of the seven wonders of the ancient world were located in Anatolia: The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus and the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.

These were The Bump, starring Aubrey Smith ; Twice Two ; Five Pound Reward ; and Bookworms Some of these films survive in the archives of the British Film Institute.

Two chiefly important monk philosophers were Sengzhao and Daosheng.