Attempting Sentence Examples

Kiera looked at her, attempting to decipher her warning.

It looks like he was attempting to arm the remaining weapons systems in the East.

The two stayed together through the years, even attempting to be lovers once, though they quickly realized theirs was a relationship of brother and sister.

Garibaldi and a few followers, including his devoted wife Anita, after vainly attempting to reach Venice, where the tricolor still floated, took refuge in the pine forests of Ravenna; the Austrians were seeking him in all directions, and most of his legionaries were captured and shot.

She clung to one of the warriors, attempting to climb him as the cat-like critter-- convinced it was a game-- wagged its tail and chased her around the large man in the center of the room.

We're here at the invitation of the Ouray Police Department, Fitzgerald said, not even attempting to hide the chill in his voice.

In attempting to picture the site of London in its original condition, that is, before any building took place, it is necessary to consider (I) the condition of the Thames unconfined between made banks, (2) the slopes overlooking it, (3) the tributary streams which watered these slopes.

He lay staring at the ceiling for a time, attempting to push away the torment; it had gripped him so completely that resistance was futile.

She dished up some vegetables and glanced at Katie, who was attempting to pile more food on Alex's plate.

The Union Civica then decided to make a bold bid for freedom by attempting forcibly to eject Celman and his clique from office.

After attempting to govern under these conditions for nearly two years, the prince, with the consent of the tsar Alexander III., assumed absolute power (May 9, 1881), and a suspension of the ultra-democratic constitution for a period of seven years was voted by a specially convened assembly (July 13).

Later, while attempting to utilize the gas for the production of electricity by means of a Grove gas battery, he noticed that the carbon monoxide contained in it combined with nickel.

Mr Kennedy lost his life in 1848, being killed by the natives while attempting to explore the peninsula of Cape York, from Rockingham Bay to Weymouth Bay.

To write an account of symphonic instrumentation in any detail would be like attempting a history of emotional expression; and all that we can do here is to point out that the problem which was, so to speak, shelved by the polyphonic device of the continuo, was for a long time solved only by methods which, in any hands but those of the greatest masters, were very inartistic conventions.

The intervening years had been spent by the Lombards, not irs consolidating their union, but in attempting to secure special privileges for their several cities.

It is more important to observe that under Joseph and his ministers or advisers, including the Frenchmen Roederer, Dumas, Miot de Melito and the Corsican Saliceti, great progress was made in abolishing feudal laws and customs, in reforming the judicial procedure and criminal laws on the model of the Code Napoleon, and in attempting the beginnings of elementary education.

From this point of view it is not sufficient, in attempting to map out the earths surface into regions of vegetation, to have regard alone to adaptations to physical conditions.

In attempting to account for the distribution of existing vegetation we must take into account palaeontological evidence.

In attempting to pronounce on the evidence with regard to Herschel's theory, we must at once admit that the transmutation of a nebula into a star has never been seen.

He spared neither men, money, nor himself in attempting to carry out his gigantic scheme for the colonization of the south Russian steppes; but he never calculated the cost, and more than three-quarters of the design had to be abandoned when but half finished.

We have seen, for example, that he was led to investigate the subject of logic because he found in attempting to advance his humanitarian schemes in politics an absence of that fundamental agreement which he recognized as the basis of scientific advance.

Genoa replied by attempting to close the Dardanelles.

Considerable difficulty is encountered in attempting to draw up a botanical classification of the species of Gossypium.

Again, in 1104, the Normans, while attempting to capture Harran, were badly defeated on the river Balikh, near Rakka; and this defeat may be said to have been fatal to the chance of a great Norman principality.'

He earned the surname of "Pious" by banishing his sisters and others of immoral life from court; by attempting to reform and purify monastic life; and by showing great liberality to the church.

Accused of attempting to poison the king of France and other prominent persons, and of other crimes, his French estates were seized by order of Charles V., and soon afterwards Navarre was invaded by the Castilians.

Meanwhile the other powers had taken advantage of the reverses of the Russian arms to discount the effect of their ultimate victory by attempting to settle the Greek question.

Since that period it has remained nominally a part of the Turkish empire; but with the decline of Turkish power, and the general disintegration of the empire, in the first half of the 18th century, a then governor-general, Ahmed Pasha, made it an independent pashalic. Nadir Shah, the able and energetic usurper of the Persian throne, attempting to annex the province once more to Persia, besieged the city, but Ahmed defended it with such courage that the invader was compelled to raise the siege, after suffering great loss.

In the Stromateis, while attempting to show that the Jewish Scriptures were older than any writings of the Greeks, he invariably brings down his dates to the death of Commodus, a circumstance which at once suggests that he wrote in the reign of the emperor Severus, from 193 to 211 A.D.

Without attempting to answer this question categorically, it may be pointed out that within the limits of the family (Ptychoderidae) which is especially characterized by their presence there are some species in Y art dY YY cts, posterior limit of collar.

Moncey (7000) had marched towards the city of Valencia, but been repulsed in attempting to storm it (June 28); Bessieres had defeated the Spanish general Joachim Blake at Medina de Rio Seco (June 14, 1808) and Dupont (13,000) had been detached (May 24) from Madrid to reduce Seville and Cadiz in Andalusia.

He went, however, considerably beyond Fechner in attempting to give an epistemological account of our knowledge of the psychophysical.

After attempting a compromise the king finally submitted, took the oath and named a new ministry.

On the other hand, at nisi prius and on the criminal circuit, he was accused of frequently attempting unduly to influence juries in their estimate of the credibility of evidence.

Unfortunately the fruits of his diligence and foresight were dissipated by the follies of his two immediate successors, Emerich (1196-1204) and Andrew II., who weakened the Ar royal power in attempting to win support by lavish grants of the crown domains on the already over-influential magnates, a policy from which dates the supremacy of the semi-savage Magyar oligarchs, that insolent and self-seeking class which would obey no superior and trampled ruthlessly on every inferior.

The Allies, so far from attempting to restore order, withdrew their forces and allowed their authority to be flouted.

Half the mounted men lost their way in attempting to pass the enemy's flank and were taken, and the brigade, threatened to its left rear by Joubert's advance and by the force that had seized the railway, only escaped being enveloped by retreating upon Ladysmith, where it arrived in an exhausted state on the 26th of October.

Krause, who was then in London, was arrested, tried and convicted for attempting to incite to murder, and sentenced to imprisonment.

He was twice banished for attempting to overthrow the oligarchical party in Syracuse; in 317 he returned with an army of mercenaries under a solemn oath to observe the democratic constitution which was then set up. Having banished or murdered some Io,000 citizens, and thus made himself master of Syracuse, he created a strong army and fleet and subdued the greater part of Sicily.

Boerhaave may be in some respects compared tO Galen, but again differed from him in that he always abstained from attempting to reduce his knowledge to a uniform and coherent system.

She, however, made them her enemies by delivering up the office of justiciary of London and the sheriffwick to her partisan Geoffrey, earl of Essex, and attempting to reduce the citizens to the enslaved condition of the rest of the country.

Nabonidus, in fact, had excited a strong feeling against himself by attempting to centralize the religion of Babylonia in the temple of Merodach (Marduk) at Babylon, and while he had thus alienated the local priesthoods the military party despised him on account of his antiquarian tastes.

Maxentius was defeated at Saxa Rubra near Rome and drowned in the Tiber while attempting to make his way across the Milvian bridge into Rome.

Attempting to return to France in 1780 he was arrested for a caustic attack on the duc de Duras (1715-1789), an academician and marshal of France, and imprisoned nearly two years in the Bastille.

Meanwhile, within the empire, ambitious valis were one by one attempting to carve out dominions for themselves at the expense of the central power.

After in vain attempting to obtain an apology for " the unparalleled outrage against a friendly power " he issued on the 10th of December a solemn hatti sheriff summoning the faithful to a holy war.

In these circumstances Catherine determined to try her powers of persuasion and argument, attempting first by correspondence to reconcile Gregory and the Florentines, who had been placed under an interdict, and then going in person as the representative of the latter to Avignon, where she arrived on the 18th of June.

Extremely pertinacious in this respect, the poet went on attempting to storm the theatre, with assault upon assault, all practically failures until the seventh and last, which was unfortunately posthumous.

There are slight remains of a castle of the O'Donnells, earls of Tyrconnell, where the English, on attempting to besiege it, were defeated and lost heavily in their retreat across the river, in 1597.

Notwithstanding the allurements of the subject, such conservative historians as Grote were disposed to regard the problems of early Grecian history as inscrutable, and to content themselves with the recital of traditions without attempting to establish their relationship with actual facts.

Subsequently Greek mercenaries became indispensable not only to the king but also to the satraps, who thereby gained the means for attempting successful rebellions, into which they were provoked by the weakness of the king, and by the continuous intrigues between the Persian magnates.

The publication in 1889 of Lux Mundi, a series of essays attempting to harmonize Anglican Catholic doctrine with modern thought, was a severe blow to him, for it showed that even at the Pusey House, established as the citadel of Puseyism at Oxford, the principles of Pusey were being departed from.

There are several handsome public monuments, notably that to Duke Leopold of Brunswick, who was drowned in the Oder while attempting to save life, on the 27th of April 1785.

It was a somewhat complicated manoeuvre; for he was attempting to outflank his enemy with a corps that he had subordinated to Marshal Ney.

Washington prepared to withstand the British behind fortifications on Harlem Heights, but discovering that Howe was attempting to outflank him by landing troops in the rear he retreated to the mainland, leaving only a garrison at Fort Washington, and established a line of fortified camps on the hills overlooking the Bronx river as far as White Plains.

He exerted himself greatly in building up his diocese, attempting to make an annual visit to every parish.

In the struggle, although he was bitterly accused of violating the written constitution, of arresting and destroying business prosperity and of attempting a radical departure from the accepted social system of the country, he was remarkably successful.

The Old Testament presents very varied teaching on this subject without attempting to co-ordinate its doctrines in a harmonious system.

The Czechoslovaks have constituted a considerable army, fighting on three different battle-fields and attempting, in Russia and Siberia, to arrest the Germanic invasion.

This was the long task essayed by Scholasticism; and, though the great Schoolmen of the 13th century refrained from attempting to rationalize such doctrines as the Trinity and the Incarnation, they were far from considering Theory of them as essentially opposed to reason.

Encouraged by this pleasing symptom of orthodoxy the bishops, instead of first attempting to put their own dilapidated house in order, at once proceeded to institute pr e osecutions for heresy against all and sundry.

For instance, he was never misled by the successes of the false Demetrius in Muscovy, and wisely insisted on recovering the great eastern fortress of Smolensk rather than attempting the conquest of Moscow.

He was the son of Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl (1749-1831), who is remembered as a most ingenious, but also most unfortunate, scientific speculator and inventor, who was before his time in suggesting and attempting new processes of alkali manufacture, and various other uses of applied science.

These fish are eaten by the Indians, who, before attempting to capture them, seek to exhaust their electrical power by driving horses into the ponds.

His prejudice against Napier naturally produced retaliation, and Mark Napier in defending his ancestor has fallen into the opposite extreme of attempting to reduce Briggs to the level of a mere computer.

No proper statistical basis for estimating the quotas existed, and the device gave each state a plausible reason for attempting secession on occasion.

After in vain attempting to conciliate Vitellius by the offer of a share in the empire, Otho, with unexpected vigour, prepared for war.

The national government, after reserving the mineral lands (1807) and attempting to lease them, concluded in 1847 to sell them, owing to the difficulty of preventing illegal entry and collecting royalties.

The difficulties that arose in attempting to avoid this inconvenience induced some nations to abandon the moon altogether, and regulate their year by the course of the sun.

It was founded by Syracuse in 599 B.e., but destroyed by the mother city in S52 for attempting to assert its independence.

By 1550, when he summoned his second diet, a reaction in his favour began, and the lingering petulance of the gentry was sternly rebuked by Kmita, the marshal of the diet, who openly accused them of attempting to diminish unduly the legislative prerogative of the crown.

At the same time it soon appeared that they could not agree among themselves when they came to ask what it is, but in attempting to define it seem to have gone through the whole gamut of mind.

One practical outcome of these researches is the method now always adopted of sterilizing by a succession of gentle warmings, sufficient to kill the developed micro-organisms, instead of by one fierce heating attempting to attack the more refractory undeveloped germs of the same.

How far southward this dominion at first extended is not known; but in 703 Nepal and the country of the Brahmans rebelled, and the Tibetan king, the third successor of Srong tsan gam-po, was killed while attempting to restore his power.

During the reign of Peisistratus he is said to have visited Athens, on which occasion he related the fable of The Frogs asking for a King, to dissuade the citizens from attempting to exchange Peisistratus for another ruler.

Brock now promptly transferred himself to the western end of Erie, where the American general Henry Dearborn was attempting another invasion.

The American Lutherans are attempting the same task on rather different lines, and with more promise.

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The failure of Jaureguy did not deter a young Catholic zealot, by name Balthazar Gerard, from attempting to assassinate the man whom he looked upon as the arch-enemy of God and the king.

Fannin (c. 1800-1836), who was overtaken on the Coletto Creek while attempting to carry out orders to withdraw from Goliad and to unite with General Houston; he surrendered after a sharp fight (March 19-20) in which he inflicted a heavy loss on the Mexicans, and was marched back with his force to Goliad, where on the morning of the 27th of March they were shot down by Santa Anna's orders.

The English law on the subject is now governed by the Offences against the Person Act 1861, which makes the attempting to cause miscarriage by administering poison or other noxious thing, or unlawfully using any instrument equally a felony, whether the woman be, or be not, with child.

The effect of his appearance was such that they turned back without attempting to fulfil their errand.

He now attacked more in detail but not more happily than before Wallis's great work, while hardly attempting any further defence of his own positions; also he repelled with some force and dignity the insults that had been heaped upon him, and fought the verbal points, but could not leave the field without making political insinuations against his adversary, quite irrelevant in themselves and only noteworthy as evidence of his own resignation to Cromwell's rule.

The Dutch were rather earlier than the English in attempting to establish tea growing in their eastern possessions.

The adjustment of the water by means of the sluices is a delicate operation when there is little water and also when there is much; in the latter case the fine earth may be washed away from some parts of the meadow; in the former case, by attempting too much with a limited water current, one may permit the languid streams to deposit their valuable suspended matters instead of carrying them forward to enrich the soil.

The "fox who would rob his host's hen-roost," as the old king called Louis, repaid his protector by attempting to sow discord in the ducal family of Burgundy, and then retired to the castle of Genappe in Brabant.

But popular discontent grew in force; risings took place in Concepcion and Coquimbo, and on the 28th of January 1823 O'Higgins was finally patriotic enough to resign his post of director-general, without attempting to retain it by force.

During most of his life Ferdinand was engaged in combating the Turks and in attempting to secure Hungary.

The Coalition gained an absolute majority and the Independence party became the strongest political group. Nevertheless the various adherents of the dual system retained an actual majority in the Chamber and prevented the Independence party from attempting to realize its programme of reducing the ties between Hungary and Austria to the person of the joint ruler.

The Spartan fleet arrived too late and departed without attempting to recover the town.

This famous charge occupied less than five minutes from first to last, and at the same time some of the Russian squadrons, attempting to charge the 93rd Highlanders (who were near Balaklava) were met by the steady volleys of the "thin red line," and fled with the rest.

The mistaken readings of the old inscriptions by the priests at Abydos (Table of Abydos), when attempting to record the names of the kings of the 1st Dynasty on the walls of the temple of Seti I., are now admitted on all sides; and no palaeographer, whether his field be Greek, Latin, Arabic, Persian or any other class of MSS., will be surprised to hear that the Egyptian papyri and inscriptions abound in corruptions and mistakes.

To secure himself from rivals in his own family, he is said to have murdered his brother and imprisoned his mother on a charge of attempting to poison him.

The occasion came in 1820 when Ali, emboldened by impunity, violated the sanctity of Stamboul itself by attempting to procure the murder of his enemy Pacho Bey in the very precincts of the palace.

Meanwhile the Danish monarchy was attempting to aggrandize itself at the expense of the Germans, the Wends who then occupied the Baltic littoral as far as the Vistula, and the other Scandinavian kingdoms. Harold Bluetooth Danis expansion.

Hans also received in fief the territory of Dietmarsch from the emperor, but, in attempting to subdue the hardy Dietmarschers, suffered a crushing defeat in which the national banner called " Danebrog " fell into the enemy's hands (1500).

He professed to aim at a union of parties on the basis of the satisfaction of material interests, a policy to which the name of Sammlung was given; but his enemies accused him of constantly intriguing against the three chancellors under whom he served, and of himself attempting to secure the first place in the state.

By the constitution of the 18th of October 614 he gave legal force to canons which had been voted some days previously by a council convened at Paris, but not without attempting to modify them by numerous restrictions.

In January 1903 he addressed a Liberal meeting at Plymouth, and appeared to be attempting to concentrate Opposition criticism upon the points in the government policy which did not involve the Imperialist difference; and in discussing War Office reform he advocated the appointment of Lord Kitchener as secretary of state for war.

Southwards they plundered far up the Garonne, and in the north of Spain; and one fleet of them sailed all round Spain, plundering, but attempting in vain to establish themselves in this Arab caliphate.

After vainly attempting to break the Austrian centre, Pichegru suddenly turned their left, and defeated Clerfayt at Cassel, Menin and Courtrai, while Moreau, his second in command, defeated Coburg at Tourcoing in May 1794; then after a pause, during which Pichegru feigned to besiege Ypres, he again dashed at Clerfayt and defeated him at Rousselaer and Hooglede, while Jourdan came up with the new army of the Sambre-and-Meuse, and utterly routed the Austrians at Fleurus on the 27th of June 1794.

It seems therefore consonant alike with prudence and reverence to refrain from attempting to combine afresh into a single picture the materials derivable from the various documents, and to endeavour instead to describe the main contents of the sources from which our knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ as an historical personage is ultimately drawn, and to observe the picture of Him which each writer in turn has offered to us.

St Paul is not an historian; he is not attempting to describe what Jesus Christ said or did.

In 656, at the moment of his accession to power, Sigebert III., the king of Austrasia, had just died, and the Austrasian mayor of the palace, Grimoald, was attempting to usurp the authority.

He passed an amnesty for the Communists, but in attempting to steer a middle course on the question of the religious associations, lost the support of Gambetta, and resigned in September 1880.

In attempting to reorganize and purify the company's service, Clive undertook a task yet more difficult than to partition the valley of the Ganges.

Caracciolo, who had been caught whilst attempting to escape from Naples, was tried by a court-martial of Royalist officers under Nelson's auspices on board the admiral's flagship, condemned to death and hanged at the yard arm.

The Latin king rode behind the Greek emperor, without any of the insignia of his dignity, at the entry into Antioch; but their relations were of the friendliest, and Manuel - as great a physician as he was a hunter - personally attended to Baldwin when the king was thrown from his horse in attempting to equal the emperor's feats of horsemanship. In the same year Baldwin had to undertake the regency in Antioch once more, Raynald of Chatillon, the second husband of Constance, being captured in battle.

Mr Gore, starting from the same basis of faith and authority, soon found from his practical experience in dealing with the "doubts and difficulties" of the younger generation that this uncompromising attitude was untenable, and set himself the task of reconciling the principle of authority in religion with that of scientific authority by attempting to define the boundaries of their respective spheres of influence.

Attempting to interpret the book of Revelation, he promised the millennium in 1672, and guaranteed miraculous assistance to those who would undertake the destruction of the Pope and the house of Austria, even venturing to prophesy that Cromwell, Gustavus Adolphus, and Rakoczy, prince of Transylvania, would perform the task.

In refusing to waste men in attempting more than was necessary Cadorna took the right decision, and won a notable success.

In other words, while an emotional and practical mysticism may exist without attempting philosophically to explain itself, speculative mysticism is almost another name for theosophy.

In any case, Badoglio was not afforded the chance of attempting any such manoeuvre as he may have had in mind.

So far from attempting to raise their standard of spiritual life, or even leaving it to ordinary intercourse to gradually bring about a certain community of intellectual culture and religious sentiment, they deliberately set up artificial barriers in order to prevent their own traditional modes of worship from being contaminated with the obnoxious practices of the servile race.

About 463, in conjunction with the Roman general Egidius, he fought against the Visigoths, who hoped to extend their dominion along the banks of the Loire; after the death of Egidius he assisted Count Paul in attempting to check an invasion of the Saxons.

In attempting to dethrone his brother, Philip Epiphanes, he was defeated by the Arabs and Parthians, was taken prisoner, and kept in confinement in Parthia by King Mithradates until his death in 88 B.C.

Again the victorious Cimbri turned away from Italy, and, after attempting to reduce the Arverni, moved into Spain, where they failed to overcome the desperate resistance of the Celtiberian tribes.

While he was being conveyed in a motor-car from the Government military headquarters in the west end of Berlin to the prison at Moabit he was shot down by his military escort while, as was subsequently alleged, he was attempting escape.

He appears, in the beginning of 1098, as attempting to escape from the privations of the siege of Antioch - showing himself, as Guibert of Nogent says, a " fallen star."

While attempting to effect his escape he was recognized by the chief of the other branch of the Kajar tribe, who had deserted his cause, and who had a blood-feud with him, in pursuance of which he now put him to death.

Alphonso succeeded in conquering part of Galicia, but in attempting to capture the frontier fortress of Badajoz he was wounded and forced to surrender to Ferdinand II.

In attempting to calculate the effect of this surface-tension in determining the form of a drop of the liquid, Segner took account of the curvature of a meridian section of the drop, but neglected the effect of the curvature in a plane at right angles to this section.

In attempting to explain these curious phenomena, it is well to consider what occurs during a collision.

The small value they attributed to all outward and special forms of service, and the want of any sympathetic craving for the communion of saints, saved the deists from attempting to found a free-thinking church.

Some of these nobles committed great cruelties while attempting to obtain these forcible conversions.

The most prominent question which emerged in attempting to define further the person of Christ was whether the will belonged to the nature or the person, or, as it came to be stated, whether Christ had two wills or only one.

Nadir Shah, after vainly attempting to stay the tumult, at last gave orders for a general massacre of the inhabitants.

The Indian cessions of 1809, along the Wabash river, aroused the hostility of Tecumseh (q.v.) and his brother, familiarly known as " The Prophet," who were attempting to combine the tribes between the Ohio and the Great Lakes in opposition to the encroachment of the whites.

Without attempting a complete list of Petrarch's works, it may be well to illustrate the extent of his erudition and his activity as a writer by a brief enumeration of the most important.

He continued, however, to take part in public affairs; mediating between the king and Earl Thomas of Lancaster in 1318, and attempting to do so between Edward and his rebellious barons in 1321.

Yet his challenge, not only to the theologian, but also to those "historians whose indolence of thought" or "natural incapacity" prevented them from attempting more than the annalistic record of events, called out a storm of protest from almost every side.

In attempting to pass from Wei to another state, Confucius was set upon by a mob, which mistook him for an officer who had made himself hated by his oppressive deeds.

He pointed out the disadvantage of a submarine in attempting to stop such an armed vessel for search, and emphasized that armament on a merchantman had every appearance of being offensive.

In 280 B.C. Pyrrhus unsuccessfully attacked its walls; and in the Second Punic War Hannibal was deterred by their strength from attempting to make himself master of the town.

Tyrconnel, the district named after the Cinel Connell, where the O'Donnells held sway, comprised the greater part of the modern county of Donegal except the peninsula of Inishowen; and since it lay conterminous with the territory ruled by the O'Neills of Tyrone, who were continually attempting to assert their supremacy over it, the history of the O'Donnells is for the most part a record of tribal warfare with their powerful neighbours, and of their own efforts to make good their claims to the overlordship of northern Connaught.

While Hugh Roe was attempting to retake the latter place in 1601, he heard that a Spanish force had landed in Munster.

On the arrest of the king and the royal family at Varennes, while attempting to escape from France, Barnave was one of the three appointed to conduct them back to Paris.

C. Breckinridge with Bragg's right attempting in vain to displace Crittenden's division on high ground above the river.

It soon became apparent to Newton's relatives that they were making a great mistake in attempting to turn him into a farmer, and he was therefore sent back again to school at Grantham.

But, in attempting the inverse processes of subtraction, division, and either evolution or determination of index, the data may be such that a process cannot be performed.

He generally gave way when pressed, without attempting an appeal to arms; he would then swear an oath to observe the Great Charter, and be detected in violating it again within a few months.

He was destitute of military skill, and wrecked army after army by attempting hard tasks at inappropriate times and by mistaken methods.

However, so exhausted was the victorious army that Henry merely led it back to Calais, without attempting anything more in this year.

Club, but, by attempting to establish throughout the country a network of affiliated clubs, were apparently aiming at setting up in Great Britain the Jacobin idea of popular control.

The state of the Lebanon went from bad to worse, and at last, in January 1842, the Turkish government appointed Omar Pasha as administrator of the Druses and Maronites, with a council of four chiefs from each party; but the pasha, attempting to effect a disarming, was besieged in November in the castle of Beit ed-Din by the Druses under Shibli el-Arrian.

I have champed up all that chaff about the ego and the non-ego, noumena and phenomena, and all the rest of it, too often not to know that in attempting even to think of these questions, the human intellect flounders at once out of its depth."

We shall now pass the groups of the Arthropoda in review, attempting to characterize them in such a way as will indicate their probable affinities and genetic history.

Colonel William Preston, county surveyor of Fincastle county, within which the 2000-acre tract lay, refused to approve Captain Bullitt's survey, and had the lands resurveyed in the following year, nevertheless the tract was conveyed in December 1773 by Lord Dunmore to his friend Dr John Connolly, a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, who had served in the British army, as commander of Fort Pitt (under Dunmore's appointment), was an instigator of Indian troubles which culminated in the Battle of Point Pleasant, and was imprisoned from 1775 until nearly the close of the War of American Independence for attempting under Dunmore's instructions to organize the "Loyal Foresters," who 1 Louisville cement, one of the best-known varieties of natural cement, was first manufactured in Shipping Port, a suburb of Louisville, in 1829 for the construction of the Louisville & Portland Canal; the name is now applied to all cement made in the Louisville District in Kentucky and Indiana.

P. Lovejoy was killed while attempting to defend against a mob a fourth press which he had recently obtained and which was stored in a warehouse in Alton.

In 1889, during the troubles which arose out of evictions, Gweedore was the headquarters of the Irish constabulary, when District Inspector Martin was openly murdered on attempting to arrest a priest on his way to Mass.

When Lord Beaconsfield appealed to the country in March 1880, he reminded the country in a letter to the viceroy, the duke of Marlborough, that there was a party in Ireland " attempting to sever the constitutional tie which unites it to Great Britain in that bond which has favoured the power and prosperity of both," and that such an agitation might in the end be " scarcely less disastrous than pestilence and famine."

It was the Italian Orsini who, by attempting to assassinate him as a traitor to the Italian nation on the 14th of January 1858, gave him an opportunity to impose his will indirectly by convincing his wife that in the interests of his own security he must "do something for Italy."

But in 1497 he thought best to dismiss him, and Perkin, after attempting something again in Ireland, landed in Cornwall with a small body of men.

His action was applauded by Young China at the time as evidence of patriotic self-abnegation, but events proved that it was chiefly inspired by recognition of the fact that he and the Cantonese group of politicians who had joined him as leaders of the Republican movement, did not yet carry sufficient weight to justify them in attempting to form a national government.

It is his opinion, apparently, that whatever story is told of Athene must have originally been told of the dawn, and that we must keep this before us in attempting to understand the legends of Athene.

He submitted to the yoke of the social system and feudal institutions at the very moment when he was attempting to revive royal authority; he was ruler of the state, but ruler of vassals also.

He signed the triple alliance at the Hague, succeeding with the assistance of Stanhope, the English minister, in engaging the emperor therein, after attempting this for a year and a half.

After a while Sagasta resigned in order to let theking show the Dynastic Left that he had no objection to their attempting a mildly democratic policy, on condition that the Cortes should not be dissolved and that Sagasta and his Liberal majorities in both houses should grant their support to the cabinet presided over by Seor Posada Herrera, a former Conservative, of which the principal members were General Lopez-Dominguez and Seores Moret, Montero Rios and Becerra.

He did great good in regulating the finances by attempting to divide the taille or poll tax more equally, by abolishing the "vingtieme d'industrie," and establishing monts de piete (establishments for loaning money on security).

But criticism is still busy attempting to trace these also to historical originals, and Theodor Abeling (Das Nibelungenlied, 1907) makes out a very plausible case for identifying Siegfried with Segeric, son of the Burgundian king Sigimund, Brunhild with the historical Brunichildis, and Hagen with a certain Hagnericus, who, according to the Life of St Columban, guided the saint (the chaplain of the Nibelungenlied), who had incurred the enmity of Brunichildis, safe to the court of her grandson Theuderich, king of the West Franks.

Up to the stage indicated by the Dissertation he had been attempting, in various ways, to unite two radically divergent modes of explaining cognition - that which would account for the content of experience by reference to affection from things without us, and that which viewed the intellect itself as somehow furnished with the means of pure, rational cognition.

He is not asking, with Locke, whence the details of experience arise; he is not attempting a natural history of the growth of experience in the individual mind; but he is endeavouring to state exhaustively what conditions are necessarily involved in any fact of knowledge, i.e.

It was difficult on Sunday, attempting a routine day after our leap forward contact with the director.

Perhaps, Miss Reagan is her name, is attempting to mislead the world.

Yes. The Others were attempting to influence the outcome of who won the Black God mantle by using me.

The warrior Kiera had been attempting to scale addressed Romas.

We ought not to spend time attempting to see sense in these Byzantine palace intrigues.

Obstructing an investigation is an offense, and covers altering, concealing or destroying documents, or attempting to obstruct justice.

Then flying at 50 feet he attacked an aerodrome where approximately 19 machines were either landing or attempting to take off.

He will, with supreme arrogance, be attempting to dethrone God in his life.

Even pre-Blair, Labor was never averse to attempting military solutions in Ireland.

The information contained in the email is totally bogus, the sender is attempting to defraud the recipient.

Brian Parnell, 66, was jailed for two years for attempting to incite an under-age boy in Sri Lanka to commit buggery.

As a Commando squad, players are tasked with infiltrating underground catacombs, sabotaging the separatists and even attempting assassination.

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 A major clampdown targeting people attempting to smuggle drugs into HMP Leeds is enjoying continued success.

He was arrested and charged with attempting to smuggle cocaine into Scotland.

Or else, equally ironically, we are deconstructing that which neoliberalism is itself already attempting to deconstruct in even more radical ways.

We have also been attempting to estimate the rate of adaptive amino acid substitution and the proportion of mutations which are slightly deleterious.

Disconnect wiring and hoses Before attempting to remove the unit, disconnect wiring and hoses Before attempting to remove the unit, disconnect the battery or batteries, removing the earth terminal first of all.

In sections 40-42 of the work, Vortigern is attempting to construct a fortress, secure from his many enemies.

Cases were matched to the next three consecutive twin gestations attempting vaginal delivery without a prior cesarean.

Attempting to impersonate any person by using forged headers or other identifying information is prohibited.

Yet attempting to mitigate or prevent animal hoarding is usually futile.

Joel Lane's Against My Ruins is the tale of two people attempting intimacy as they scavenge through a post holocaust city.

The Rosicrucians managed to create a hysteria about themselves, with many people attempting to search them out to expose or join them.

However, legal pitfalls are proving to be hurdles for jurisdictions attempting to regulate the industry.

They may resent interference from health professionals attempting to make changes which they do not perceive to be correct.

Paul was attempting to preserve the modesty of the day.

Unlike conventional molding, you are not pressurizing a local gradient area of the machine platen attempting to pack out the part.

We had a wander around town and then a horrible time attempting to rescue the dialup networking on my Dad's windows 98 box.

By attempting to abolish manorial courts in 1787 he turned the landed nobility against him.

However we began the second half as we had ended the first - attempting to beat opponents on our own.

You've also got to laud the filmmakers ' considerable ambitions of attempting to flesh out a complex sci-fi opus on such a shoestring.

Attempting to reproduce this elsewhere, and quickly, was contrary to the model's own organicism.

We are also attempting to enhance neurite outgrowth in adult neurons by genetic manipulation.

I often overcompensate by attempting to recognize people regardless of familiarity.

In Italy the war led to repressive measures against those attempting to leave a job and those advocating pacifism.

In attempting to set history straight, one is occasionally touched by mild paranoia.

Many appear to have a phallus, suggesting the artist is attempting to emphasize maleness, an important component of the Spanish assemblage.

The case was, it seems, built on the work of an undercover policewoman attempting to fit Stagg to a predetermined psychological profile.

One law passed in 1305 allowed the University of Oxford to arrest prostitutes attempting to ply their trade to students.

And I will be attempting to stop the various left-wing quangos telling the police what to do, how to do their job.

Arctic Thunder is a frantic arcade racer that is in no way attempting to be a serious game.

Attempting to probe too deeply into Deuteronomic redaction is complex and tends to raise more problems that it solves.

The nightmare of the ' rational ' mind is attempting to evaluate the outcome of the outcome of the outcome in endless regress.

It seems remarkable to us that of all the people attempting to climb Everest this year we are the only expedition on this route.

Frank Stone is attempting to start to share the philosophy of revolution under cover of his pizza restaurant.

Plain hit A single ball stroke in which the striker is neither attempting to make a roquet or run a hoop.

I shall particularly remember an apparently sane ITN news reporter who once spent 52 hours attempting a 3-way crossing of the Channel.

In the second class, students were not risking personal self-worth each time they did homework but rather were attempting to learn.

This can only encourage firms not to be overly zealous in attempting to resolve alleged shortcomings of service.

In the news, a company is attempting to patent salted chips apparently to show the stupidity of existing patent law.

By attempting to block the ordering of thoughts and feelings into language, communication becomes more subtle.

This raised the question whether the earlier recap telex contract could be referred to in attempting to construe the Booking Note.

The scenario is a garage workshop where Wally, the rather untidy mechanic, is attempting to assemble cars.

In 364, however, he sustained a severe reverse in attempting to relieve a besieged Spartan garrison at Cromnus in south-western Arcadia.

The cause of this sudden eclipse was the cruel vengeance he took on the milites, or noble order, who, emulating the example of their brethren in Bohemia, were already attempting to curb the royal power.

Cuestas, on attempting to reform corrupt practices, was soon threatened with another revolution, and on the 10th of February 1898 he assumed dictatorial powers, dissolved the Chambers and suspended all constitutional guarantees.

In that year they were lost; and the legists tell us that they are attempting to reconstruct par oir dire the gist of the lost archetype.

The importance of such groups as methyl, ethyl, &c. in attempting a nomenclature of organic compounds cannot be overestimated; these compound radicals, fre q uently termed alkyl radicals, serve a similar purpose to the organic chemist as the elements to the inorganic chemist.

The intervening months were signalized by the capture of Baton Rouge in May 1862 - the Confederates vainly attempting to recapture it in August.

Another obvious inference from the necessary imperfection of optical images is the uselessness of attempting anything like an absolute destruction of spherical aberration.

The broken and demoralized army, its ranks thinned by fever and sickness, at last began its hopeless retreat, attempting to reach Catania by a circuitous route; but, harassed by the numerous Syracusan cavalry and darters, after a few days of dreadful suffering, it was forced to lay down its arms. The Syracusans sullied the glory of their triumph by putting Nicias and Demosthenes to death, and huddling their prisoners into their stonequarries - a living death, dragged out, for the allies from Greece proper to the space of seventy days, for the Athenians themselves and the Greeks of Sicily and Italy for six months longer.

In attempting to classify acetylene generators some authorities have divided them into as many as six different classes, but this is hardly necessary, as they may be divided into two main classes - first, those in which water is brought in contact with the carbide, the carbide being in excess during the first portion of the operation; and, second, those in which the carbide is thrown into water, the amount of water present being always in excess.

So well were these troops organized that they were able to hold their own against rebellious Janissaries in the European provinces, where disaffected governors made no scruple of attempting to make use of them against the reforming sultan.

The disciples of Newton maintained that in the fact of the mutual gravitation of the heavenly bodies, according to Newton's law, they had a complete quantitative account of their motions; and they endeavoured to follow out the path which Newton had opened up by investigating and measuring the attractions and repulsions of electrified and magnetic bodies, and the cohesive forces in the interior of bodies, without attempting to account for these forces.

While attempting to seize the Confederate prison at Andersonville (July 31, 1864), he was captured at Clinton, Georgia.

This statement is exposed to the suspicion of attempting to assimilate the Jewish sects to the Greek schools.

Bennett (Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australasia), " is by one of the hind legs; its powerful resistance and the sharpness of the spines will soon oblige the captor, attempting to seize it by any other part of the body, to relinquish his hold."

In the first ten years of attempting to make better hybrids, Borlaug's group made more than six thousand crossings of wheat.

But a sizable number are attempting this, and the direction the world is heading is obvious.

He remained in Moscow till October, letting the troops plunder the city; then, hesitating whether to leave a garrison behind him, he quitted Moscow, approached Kutuzov without joining battle, turned to the right and reached Malo-Yaroslavets, again without attempting to break through and take the road Kutuzov took, but retiring instead to Mozhaysk along the devastated Smolensk road.

Building accessibility into the design rather than attempting to retrofit a solution.

These rigorous inspections have found nothing to suggest that Iran is attempting to build nuclear weapons.

In addition, they help fuel the rise in racism by attempting to scapegoat asylum seekers for all the government 's shortcomings.

Whiston was a deeply religious man and had produced many theories attempting to integrate scientific theories into the Christian religion.

The opposition is attempting to cover with bluster and lies its abject failure to unseat the government.

However, another way of looking at this is that Jimmy was using commendable nous in attempting to unsettle the players.

Attempting to untangle the possible familial relationships is a nightmare.

By attempting to squeeze more out of an inefficient employer unions are sweating a wasting asset.

He admitted attempting to produce some gimmicky, way-out ideas in order to get attention, and often succeeded.

Many processed food brands get caught for attempting to adulterate their products with poor quality additives and preservatives.

We're attempting to artifically mimic the exact biological processes that the abalone exhibits.

We are attempting to identify which areas of the brain are greatly affected by aversive stimuli.

The government has been attempting to eradicate all corrupt activity for years.

The nation is attempting to sell more goods than they purchase, following the ecomonic policy of mercantilism.

Don't develop such a strict schedule that you are attempting to feed baby even when she is not hungry or holding off on feeding her because it isn't time yet.

It's typical for pediatricians to ask moms and dads if their infants are doing or attempting to do tasks appropriate to their age.

Help the toddler manipulate the toy in one small way to help her get closer to what she is trying to do, or expand in one small way in the play she is already attempting.

For example, if a toddler is attempting to stack blocks one on top of the other and doesn't yet have the coordination to balance them, show the toddler how putting two blocks on the bottom will make it easier to stack another block on top.

While a piece from the manufacturer of the crib is always the best choice, if it's not available for any reason, ordering a crib hardware kit or getting custom parts made is a safer choice than attempting to repair the piece yourself.

Slalom skis have flat bottoms and wider tails, and allow for more ease and comfort when attempting to get up on to the surface of the water.

One is better served attempting to set a price threshold and then begin the search within that price range.

CozyCatFurniture.com is a good place to begin if you are attempting to get an idea regarding options and pricing.

Many cat owners experience a difficult set of responses when attempting to substitute pine litter as a litter alternative.

The situational distinctions for cat-catching will differ depending on whether you are attempting to catch a feral animal or an indoor animal that is also a cherished pet.

Some baiting techniques can be used to catch a feral cat, but there are far more risks involved when you are attempting to handle a wild animal.

If a child is attempting to view a book with pictures, and either the pages load too slowly or the images don't appear, he will soon lose interest in the book altogether.

Before attempting to redeem cash rewards, cardholders must also investigate minimum redemption amounts since many cards require that a certain amount be earned before it can be redeemed.

For example, the card will not work when attempting to pay at the pump for gas if the card balance is not at least $75.

When making a gasoline purchase with a prepaid card you should always pay inside the gas station instead of attempting to pay at the pump.

You may also run into trouble when attempting to use this card to pay for gas at a pump or even paying for the tab at a restaurant.

Prepaid debit cards may not work when attempting to pay for gas at the pump.

For those attempting to pay off large card balances, this can be an unwelcome hassle from year to year.

Occasionally, a couple attempting to complete a divorce without the assistance of a lawyer will run into some small problems, begin arguing about specifics, or determine that the divorce forms are too complicated to fill out without help.

Although most experts don't recommend attempting to divorce without the aid of an attorney, a do it yourself divorce may be an option if you and your spouse have no children, little property, and minimal debt.

A forensic accountant may be called in to determine whether one spouse is attempting to hide assets from the other.

A judge may award alimony to a former spouse while they are attempting to upgrade their job skills.

The sensible thing to do is to talk with your doctor or nutritionist before attempting any type of fast.

Always consult with your veterinarian before attempting any home remedy for flea control or other medical concerns.

Herbal preparations may be helpful for mild depression, but a major depressive episode warrants prompt attention from a medical professional.When depression becomes overwhelming, attempting self-treatment can be dangerous.

It is important to remember that lifestyle changes are extremely important when attempting to lower cholesterol levels, and that no herb or drug can do it alone.

For this reason, it is often best to shop at a variety of retailers and build up your home decor over time, rather than attempting to decorate an entire room in a single day.

If you are interested in minimalism within a small budget, the best technique is to slowly transform the space, rather than attempting to completely outfit the room at once.

Let the glue dry before attempting to position the frame.To position the frame, you will need to first test the frame to see if it fits over the existing mirror clips.

Before attempting to create your zombie look, be sure to have the basic makeup necessities on hand.

In Victorian times, everyday women often wore makeup, attempting to look as pale as possible.

If you are attempting to look younger or fresh faced, add just a little color to the tip of your nose, as well.

Encyclopedia Mythica - This is a well-done site attempting to catalog myths and mythic figures from around the world.

You may want to check your local store's policy before attempting to use them.

Most people will tell you playing nostalgic games brings back memories of wasting away the hours playing "just one more game" or attempting to beat an old high score, whether their own or a friend's.

Trying to stop your quest are four ghosts that run around attempting to eat you.

In addition, it may deter you from attempting to fix your own camera.

The selection tools in Pixia don't resemble common drawing tools, so if you want to save yourself some frustration, begin with a blank image and experiment with the tools until you are comfortable before attempting to edit photos or images.

Due to the language barrier facing most Americans attempting to book a vacation in Europe, online services offering complete Europe ski packages are often the best way to plan your overseas ski trip.

In fact, your conversation with an adolescent about suicide will probably result in nothing more than the young person revealing that he or she has never had serious thoughts about attempting suicide.

Teens are attempting to navigate their feelings and understand the changes within themselves, as well as their relationships to others during this time.

Finally out of nowhere an old town car pulled up while I was attempting to flag down a different cab.

So before your mother cries at the mere mention of your wedding day plans, share your ideas with her, and you may find her not only wanting to go with you to browse through punk dresses, but attempting to find a punk mom dress for herself.

There are many different depression tests available, but most work by attempting to evaluate how many of the common depression symptoms you are experiencing.

For example, if you're attempting to quit smoking, Wellbutrin may be a great depression medication for your needs.

Attempting to diagnose a drug addiction on your own is both ineffective and potentially dangerous.

When attempting to quit smoking cigarettes, as well as dealing with the nicotine withdrawal, smokers also struggle to cope with not having an actual cigarette to hold at various times of the day.

For those people attempting to stop using chewing tobacco, the use of a product such as nicotine replacement lozenges or gum is a popular choice.

If you don't have the time to attend meetings or want a private cessation program, the Internet provides many support websites for people attempting to quit smoking.

These emotional symptoms will subside, just as the physical symptoms do, and they are simply a result of the nicotine withdrawals as well as the stress related to attempting such an important life change.

This can be very useful in attempting to further understand why someone has developed such an acute focus on his or her appearance, and to more fully grasp how that focus impacts his or her current functioning.

This was most commonly done in Spanish-style homes, which used tiling to bright and sometimes extreme effect, attempting to create an exotic experience.

Focus on the mood you're attempting to convey by paying close attention to the colors of your walls and carpeting and even the style of your furniture.

Novice decorators might find it easier to work with premade fondant before attempting to make their own.

Beginning decorators may actually learn more by attempting to recreate existing designs, whereas advanced decorators can stretch their creative abilities through the challenge of realizing a self-invented design.

Williams allegedly harassed and choked a 19-year-old waitress hard enough to leave bruises on her neck while attempting to steal a kiss on March 18.

He appeared on the television show Extras in 2006, in a parody of himself, comically attempting to prove that he is an experienced young man.

In the end, Paris was sent back to jail and prosecutors are attempting to hold L.A. County Sheriff's officials in contempt for Hilton's early release.

Spending time with her dad has got to be a sure sign that Lindsay is attempting to put the pieces of her life and career back together and begin anew.

The unidentified driver of the other car is claimed to have been a member of the paparazzi attempting to get a picture of Bloom and his companions.

February 2006 - Attempting to escape the paparazzi, Britney grabs five-month old baby Sean Preston, plops him in her lap and drives away.

In May of 2007, a video of Hasslehoff, laying on a floor, drunk, shirtless and attempting to eat a burger, surfaced.

Hogan has not yet applied to these schools and was merely attempting to tour the campuses…during finals week.

Apparently, he revealed to Oprah that he was attempting to reach his personal goal of 23 minutes.

A neighbor ran to the aid of the woman, attempting to stop the bleeding from the over 20 stab wounds inflicted upon her body and face by Malil.

Phillips was attempting to board a flight at the busy airport when she went through a screening by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

Members of the TSA found that the actress was attempting to board the flight with cocaine and heroin reportedly stuffed in balloons and baggies.

Attempting to find an outlet for his feelings, he flew down to the Caribbean and emoted his heartbreak via song.

The reason for the new filing is said to be that the two were attempting to "disrupt" Spears' conservatorship process.

A spokesperson for the district attorney's office stated that they are attempting to gather evidence against Brown, but are not having much luck.

Apparently Montag is taking a page out of the Paris Hilton book by attempting to make an impression on the musical charts.

The still grieving former heavyweight boxing champ was attempting to travel with his 10 month old child and wife when someone who he thought was a member of the paparazzi got way too close for comfort.

Ever since he was busted for attempting to purchase numerous firearms from a federal agent, T.I. has been a tour of contrition.