| She claims that her boss tried to fondle her at the office Christmas party. |
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| Several managers have tried to increase the speed and accuracy of the workers. |
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| Scientists tried to explain some peculiarities in the results of the experiment. |
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| They've tried to improve their procedures, with varying degrees of success. |
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| She tried to reach the vase but overbalanced herself and fell off the stool. |
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| The defense lawyers tried to impeach the witness's testimony by forcing him to admit that he had changed his story. |
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| She tried to remain as inconspicuous as possible so that no one would see her there. |
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| His political adversaries tried to prevent him from winning the nomination. |
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| She was unfriendly and as cold as ice when I tried to talk to her earlier. |
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| The company has tried to muzzle its employees by forbidding them to speak to the press. |
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| She tried to rationalize her grandson's strange behavior by blaming it on the boy's father. |
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| He tried to use argumentation to convince his opponents, rather than force. |
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| He tried to learn about the latest bands so he could impress his hip new college friends. |
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| Vergenne'fury reached its height when the priest tried to involve the English ambassador. |
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| Henry tried to maintain a sophisticated household that combined hunting and drinking with cosmopolitan literary discussion and courtly values. |
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| The committee tried to be fair and aboveboard in its hiring. |
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| He tried to interpose himself between the people who were fighting. |
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| The company has tried to prevent the workers from organizing. |
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| He tried to steer the conversation away from his recent problems. |
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| He tried to repair the damage by apologizing, but it was too late. |
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| The soldiers tried to neutralize the attack by dividing the invading army. |
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| People in the crowd were booing and heckling as she tried to speak. |
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| The journalist tried to get access to proprietary information. |
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| The director has tried to dissociate himself from his earlier films. |
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| The mayor's aides tried to peddle his innocence to reporters. |
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| The mayor tried to hamstring our efforts by cutting the budget. |
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| He tried to tie his shoelace but was all fingers and thumbs due to his nervousness. |
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| In July 1855, the allied squadron tried to go past Taganrog to Rostov on Don, entering the River Don through the Mius River. |
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| In the same month, the Western Allied Baltic Fleet tried to destroy heavily defended Russian dockyards at Sveaborg outside Helsinki. |
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| Copernicus' 1543 work on the heliocentric model of the solar system tried to demonstrate that the sun was the center of the universe. |
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| In his twenties he tried to create diamonds by heating graphite and shorted out Glasgow's electricity supply. |
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| Some researchers have tried to clarify the idea of race by equating it to the biological idea of the clade. |
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| Doesn't matter, you'd have your lips on it and I'd tell everyone how you tried to mouth rape me. |
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| In 1948 the Government of Pakistan tried to impose Urdu as the sole state language in Pakistan, starting the Bengali language movement. |
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| Traditional grammarians tried to group the various suffixes into eight cases corresponding to the cases used in Sanskrit. |
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| In spite of the conditions, islanders tried to rescue the passengers and crew. |
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| He tried to demonstrate the universality of human appetites for corporeal pleasures. |
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| After defeating Russia, the Germans tried to win in the spring of 1918 before the millions of American soldiers arrived. |
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| Wells was a friend of many years, and tried to intervene when Barrie's marriage fell apart. |
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| Although Meaden tried to promote the single, it failed to reach the top 50 and the band reverted to calling themselves the Who. |
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| I tried to thank her but she just hugged me and told me not to say anything. |
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| According to Pliny the Elder, the realism of his paintings was such that birds tried to eat the painted grapes. |
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| In fact, people who even used a name or tried to maintain any continuity of identity at all were generally mocked as namefags. |
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| An Ottoman expedition force tried to capture Sana'a, but was defeated and had to evacuate the highlands. |
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| This caused reoccuring tensions as the Football League and its clubs tried to impose their authority over the national associations. |
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| All the food on the menu looked delicious, so I tried to narrow down my choices to only healthy foods. |
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| Transporting the large quantity of materials required for construction was difficult, so builders always tried to use local resources. |
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| One of the things that was a sin of ours, and the neocolonial arrangement we tried to produce, was that we had all the answers and they had none. |
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| Moray, with no heavy siege equipment available to him, tried to take the castle in a night attack and having failed, was forced to abandon siege. |
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| From the carnage of Bannockburn, the rest of the army tried to escape to the safety of the English border, ninety miles to the south. |
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| Troyes, the site of the treaty that tried to disinherit Charles VII, was the only one to put up even brief opposition. |
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| Some Protestants tried to enforce the law themselves by apprehending these priests. |
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| On 11 December, James tried to flee to France, first throwing the Great Seal of the Realm into the River Thames. |
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| Scotland tried to establish a settlement in 1698 through the Darien scheme. |
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| Most New England parents tried to help their sons establish farms of their own. |
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| In 1838 Gladstone nearly ruined his career when he tried to force a religious mission upon the Conservative Party. |
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| At the outbreak of World War I, he tried to organise a pacifist general strike, but died soon afterwards. |
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| The Sikh leaders of the Singh Sabha worked to offer a clear definition of Sikh identity and tried to purify Sikh belief and practice. |
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| After the Norman Conquest, William the Conqueror tried to rule England using the traditional system but eventually modified it to his own liking. |
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| However, when Witkamp tried to get an official endorsement to his competition, the UEFA president turned it down. |
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| When Humphrey de Bohun tried to take back Brycheiniog, which was granted to Llywelyn by the Treaty of Montgomery, Mortimer supported de Bohun. |
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| Henry tried to use his royal authority leniently, hoping to appease the more hostile barons and maintain peace in England. |
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| In that same year Simon tried to persuade Joan, Countess of Flanders to marry him. |
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| Edward called for hoarders to release food, and tried to encourage both internal trade and the importation of grain, but with little success. |
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| Lambert had previously tried to convert the town's old railway station into a hotel and museum, employing international architect Richard Rogers. |
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| The Bank of Greece tried to adopt deflationary policies to stave off the crises that were going on in other countries, but these largely failed. |
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| In 1913, when Roberts's mother was dying, his brother Dan tried to see him to ask him to visit his mother. |
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| At times he had become critical of atmospheres, though remarkably detected an imposter who tried to hypnotize him one night. |
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| He also tried to capture Sana'a from the Yufirids in 901 AD, but failed miserably. |
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| Although the Sulayhids were Ismaili, they never tried to impose their beliefs on the public. |
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| When Murad tried to relieve Sana'a, highland tribesmen ambushed his unit and slaughtered all of them. |
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| Legend has it that he tried to hide his pugilistic ambitions from his mother by carrying his boxing gloves inside his violin case. |
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| The MP tried to arrest them, but Louis forcefully argued the pair out of the situation. |
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| In its flattering way, the press tried to invest this habit of Bush's with the sense that it was indicative of a particularly sharp wit. |
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| The hippo heard us, and, like a baseball player caught off base, tried to get back to the river. |
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| We tried to start a company, but we couldn't seem to get it off the ground. |
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| Hundreds of civilians were shot or drowned as they tried to escape the carnage by fleeing across the River Slaney. |
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| Later biologists have tried to refine Mayr's definition with the recognition and cohesion concepts, among others. |
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| In one instance, killer whales tried to tip ice floes on which a dog team and photographer of the Terra Nova Expedition were standing. |
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| The French Navy tried to stop the protest in several ways, including assaulting David McTaggart. |
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| Many locals, merchant and noble alike, envied the power of the league and tried to diminish it. |
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| In the years about 1400, the Free City of Bremen tried to rule Standland and Butjadingen. |
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| He tried to encourage birdlife by planting trees and hollowing out trunks for owls to nest in. |
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| Some eminent ornithologists such as Pierce Brodkorb tried to keep the debate alive but the ICZN's solution has been satisfactory. |
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| In 1848 the expedition abandoned the two ships and its members tried to escape south across the tundra by sledge. |
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| While Franklin and McClure tried to explore the passage by sea, Rae explored by land. |
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| The other German ships tried to refloat her, but decided to scuttle her instead when they became aware of an approaching Russian intercept force. |
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| Each tried to swallow the region and to merge it with their spheres of influence. |
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| He slipped off into light fog and for several days tried to escape the superior forces. |
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| Pompey and Crassus had been at odds for a decade, so Caesar tried to reconcile them. |
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| Henry had tried to have John officially proclaimed King of Ireland, but Pope Lucius III would not agree. |
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| Hawke tried to attack the ships in the Villaine with fireboats, but to no effect. |
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| Following Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare on February 1, 1917, countries tried to limit or even abolish submarines. |
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| During the night, about 100 French soldiers tried to break out towards Dunkirk but failed. |
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| On 15 May, the Germans attacked the First Army along the Dyle, causing the meeting engagement that Gamelin had tried to avoid. |
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| Fighting continued in this area for the next week, as the Axis tried to recover the small hill that was so important to their defence. |
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| Even without having a mandate from the Geneva Conventions, the ICRC tried to ameliorate the suffering of civil populations. |
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| Papin proposed applying this steam pump to the operation of a paddlewheel boat and tried to market his idea in Britain. |
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| During the training, Wolffe continually tried to slow Trudy's pace, saying that she would never last at that speed. |
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| The trio unsuccessfully tried to have fun and caused numerous traffic jams. |
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| Hammond and May tried to convert a 1992 Reliant Robin into a space shuttle. |
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| Hammond tried to Americanise his lorry by attaching a dog kennel to the front of his lorry. |
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| In January 1488, in Parliament, James tried to gain supporters by making his second son Duke of Ross and four Lairds full Lords of Parliament. |
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| Fleas tried to avoid the scratching, retreating rapidly downwards and backwards through the fur. |
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| After Dagobert's death in 639, the duke of Thuringia, Radulf, rebelled and tried to make himself king. |
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| The English tried to obtain supplies from the Baltic, but at this period bows were being replaced by guns in any case. |
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| In a late story, a giant named Atlas tried to drive a wandering Perseus from the place where the Atlas mountains now stand. |
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| The League tried to enforce economic sanctions upon Italy, but to no avail. |
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| A number of scientists have tried to use these tracers to infer where the upwelling occurs. |
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| Since the discovery of the New World, various authors have tried to link the Brendan legend with an early discovery of America. |
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| The Inuit generally favored, and tried to breed, the most striking and handsome of dogs, especially ones with bright eyes and a healthy coat. |
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| Most abolitionists tried to raise public support to change laws and to challenge slave laws. |
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| Bradford wrote that the issue has been further complicated by historical revisionists, who have tried to offer a variety of reasons for the war. |
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| Many local fishermen noticed the drastic decrease of cod and tried to inform local government officials. |
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| In 1857, the Devon Constabulary tried to take over the Bradninch Borough Police but was met with fierce resistance from the borough authorities. |
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| However, the surrender was a ploy, and the Atuatuci, armed with weapons they had hidden, tried to break out during the night. |
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| The fighting there had killed the previous governor and routed Cestius Gallus, the governor of Syria, when he tried to restore order. |
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| He tried to escape from the castle in 1648, but was unable to get through the bars of his window. |
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| He tried to deflect the blame by emphasising the alleged cowardice of Byng. |
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| Often Cameron was a friend of these Victorian celebrities, and, knowing them well, tried to capture their personalities in her photographs. |
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| While absent without leave, they assaulted a police constable who tried to arrest them. |
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| Tony and Chris Lambrianou and Ronnie Bender helped clear up the mess and tried to dispose of the body. |
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| Major political parties in Australia have tried to increase the number of Indigenous representation within their parties. |
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| Early anthropology originated in Classical Greece and Persia and studied and tried to understand observable cultural diversity. |
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| Serbia in turn declared the dissolution of the union as unconstitutional and the Yugoslavian army unsuccessfully tried to maintain status quo. |
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| In response, the kings tried to centralize power over time, but they definitively lost control over Spoleto and Benevento in the attempt. |
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| In the meantime, Authari embarked on a policy of internal reconciliation and tried to reorganize royal administration. |
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| He tried to claim the kingship, but with no support and no chance of a coronation in Pavia. |
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| Francis Bacon and other advocates of science tried to create unity in Europe by focusing on the unity in nature. |
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| After Arminius was defeated and dead, Rome tried to control Germania beyond the Limes indirectly, by appointing client kings. |
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| The Gracchi had tried to restore the smallholders who would constitute the majority of those qualified to serve. |
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| Following up the attack, the Vandals tried to invade the Peloponnese, but were driven back by the Maniots at Kenipolis with heavy losses. |
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| The barbarians sailed along the Black Sea coast to Tomis in Moesia Inferior, which they tried to take by assault without success. |
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| The title of Romulus was associated too strongly with notions of monarchy and kingship, an image that Octavian tried to avoid. |
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| The army of praetorian prefect Furius Victorinus tried to relieve the city, but was defeated and its general slain. |
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| Intense diplomatic activity followed, as the Romans tried to win over various barbarian tribes in preparation for a crossing of the Danube. |
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| Alaric cashiered his ineffectual puppet emperor after eleven months and again tried to reopen negotiations with Honorius. |
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| However, he did try to appease the Pope and tried to keep his alliance with the church strong. |
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| In 799, Pope Leo III had been mistreated by the Romans, who tried to put out his eyes and tear out his tongue. |
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| These industries declined in the second half of the twentieth century, and Le Creusot has tried to reinvent itself as a tourist town. |
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| Caracalla, it was claimed, tried to counter this influence by invoking his ancestral spirits. |
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| In the 5th century, Theodoric the Great tried to recruit Crimean Goths for his campaigns in Italy, but few showed interest in joining him. |
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| In 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev tried to reform and revitalize the economy with his program of perestroika. |
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| Nikita Khrushchev tried to make education more accessible, making it clear to children that education was closely linked to the needs of society. |
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| The state as a whole tried to work out a sense of a distinctively Austrian identity. |
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| The East Romans tried to buy Uldin off, but his sum was too high so they instead bought off Uldin's subordinates. |
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| When the implied unity was absent, the nation state often tried to create it. |
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| The two remaining ships, laden with valuable spices, tried to return to Spain by sailing westwards. |
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| Several weeks later, Trinidad departed and tried to return to Spain via the Pacific route. |
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| Following Alexander's death, many Greeks who had settled there tried to return to Greece. |
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| The Mongols, meeting such a sudden and strong attack, in panic tried to withdraw to the sea. |
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| There were renewed tensions in 2005 as hundreds of African migrants tried to storm the borders of the Spanish enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta. |
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| His court also tried to lighten the tax burden on commoners by reducing tax rates. |
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| The Mongol Empire tried to invade Vietnam again in 1284 and 1287 but were defeated both times. |
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| The master founder initially tried to sell his services to the Byzantines, who were unable to secure the funds needed to hire him. |
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| In the 7th century the Umayyads tried to conquer the region but were unsuccessful. |
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| They tried to explain that nowhere in Zara Yaqob's list of regnal names did that title occur. |
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| Later, cities like Bruges and Antwerp actively tried to take over the monopoly of trade from the Hansa, inviting foreign merchants to join in. |
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| In 1805, Haitian troops of General Henri Christophe tried to conquer all of Hispaniola. |
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| He tried to collect troops and put Rome in a state of defence, but his position was precarious. |
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| Going against his promises made in September, Henry tried to make the marriage a reality. |
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| After this failed attempt, Henry once again went against his promises and tried to marry Isabella to Louis XI's brother Charles, Duke of Berry. |
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| The indigenous people were upset by this proclamation and so Ojeda tried to placate them by offering them trinkets. |
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| They tried to give the natives things to eat such as bread, fish, cakes, honey and even wine. |
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| They also tried to give them just water but the natives only swashed the water in their mouths, then spit it out. |
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| In September 1509, Sequeira tried to establish contact with the Sultan of Malacca but failed, leaving behind 19 Portuguese prisoners. |
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| Initially King Manuel I and his council in Lisbon tried to distribute the power, outlining three areas of jurisdiction in the Indian Ocean. |
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| The Portuguese repulsed their attack and the Dutch never tried to conquer Macau again. |
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| After him, several others like Russi Khan, Ardeshir Khan, and Ali Vakili tried to establish new movie theaters in Tehran. |
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| In 1860, the Al Khalifas used the same tactic when the British tried to overpower Bahrain. |
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| The English, led by Stamford Raffles, then tried to establish an intervention in Sambas but failed. |
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| Magellan and his men then tried to scare them off by burning some houses in Bulaia. |
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| Those who stood beside him were easily overpowered and killed, while the others who tried to help him were hacked by spears and swords. |
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| They tried to establish a regular land crossing there, but the thick jungle, and malaria made it impractical. |
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| Even if mixes were common, the white population tried to keep their higher status, and were largely successful in doing so. |
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| Japan also tried to change the social organization in the islands from matrilineality to the Japanese patriarchal system, but with no success. |
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| Operating costs exceeded revenue, and the plant's owners tried to partner with the government to prevent closure. |
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| As such, they occupied a special place on household altars, where people prayed to them, asked for help, or tried to summon their protection. |
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| Supporters of Garrido tried to stop the election, resulting in shooting and twelve dead. |
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| Thus, they brutally crushed any tributaries who tried to send help to Tenochtitlan. |
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| Since the end of the Fujimori regime, Peru has tried to fight corruption while sustaining economic growth. |
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| Amid the ruins of the city of Tumbes, he tried to piece together the situation before him. |
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| In 1531, Bertrand d'Ornesan tried to establish a French trading post at Pernambuco, Brazil. |
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| Some ignored the expiration of servants' indentured contracts and tried to keep them as lifelong workers. |
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| When the most industrious of these renters tried to buy the dairy they worked, they failed. |
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| After the mutiny, Captain Hudson's shallop broke out oars and tried to keep pace with the Discovery for some time. |
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| The States of Zeeland had tried to convince the States of Holland to take on the responsibility for the New Netherland province, but to no avail. |
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| Upon discovering the Orange Islands, the crew came across a herd of approximately 200 walruses and tried to kill them with hatchets and pikes. |
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| On 25 March 1638 he tried to sell his property in the Jordaan, but the purchase was cancelled. |
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| Tasman then tried to work his two ships into Adventure Bay on the east coast of South Bruny Island where he was blown out to sea by a storm. |
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| If you've tried to lose weight before, you probably sensed intuitively that such an antifood approach would be a problem. |
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| Tito and Nehru tried to keep fervent antiwesternism from superseding the fundamental anti-bloc position of the movement. |
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| While I never shunned my Aspieness, I tried to be clever about how and when to let my AS out and about. |
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| Bad, he doubtless was. But when he tried to run a blazer on this grim little cowman, Slaughter had run him. |
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| Sighing, I rolled over and tried to go back to sleep. But the noises went on. I squinted at the clock. Bleurgh. |
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| After finding out she had terminal cancer, she tried to block out any thoughts of her own mortality. |
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| He tried to sprint, but his ligaments blew and he was barely able to walk to the finish line. |
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| Malene tried to digest what it meant that he was looking bosslike this morning. |
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| I tried to hit the bullseye by first bracketing it with two shots and then splitting the difference with my third, but I missed. |
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| He tried to push Kissu into his cage, but the cougar charged back out and sank his canines into Wilson's rump. |
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| One child stood as king of the hill, and tried to withstand the pushes and shoves of his challengers. |
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| The Portuguese had mastered the technique of claying sugar, and other European nations tried to learn the secrets from them. |
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| It is true that when political philosophers have tried to intervene directly in political life, they have usually come unstuck. |
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| He tried to compromise the security in the computer by guessing the password. |
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| I couch-surfed in my Portland friends' guest rooms while I tried to reinvent myself. |
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| It is almost 50 years since Western dancers first tried to cure the Russians of this crashingly vulgar habit. |
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| After listening to that sheer pile of bull mess he tried to tell me yesterday, I've decided he's got precisely zero cred as far as I'm concerned. |
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| My memories of high school and college French are mostly negative because I usually felt dimwitted anytime I tried to speak. |
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| At night proctors patrolled the street and dogged your steps if you tried to go into any haunt where the presence of vice was suspected. |
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| I had a little dog who practiced all the dogly virtues. He never tried to get into any chairs or on any couches. |
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| On one occasion it tried to creep under her petticoat and lick her, so she thrashed it with the dogwhip. |
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| The car thief fought with an officer and tried to drown a police dog before being shot while escaping. |
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| I have tried to explain the sense of dynamis fundamental to Aristotle's philosophy. |
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| Even with an elephant dose of sedative, the horse was still kicking at him when he tried to clean the wound. |
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| She was the empath who would betray empaths if she got the chance. So they'd tried to fix things so that she didn't get the chance. |
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| But when they knew they were going back they lost his paperwork. No just his. Everycunt who'd tried to leave. |
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| The documents indicate that Dr. Murray tried to revive Mr. Jackson with flumazenil, which reverses the effects of benzodiazepines like lorazepam. |
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| We tried to repair the toilet, but it broke again after two or three flushings. |
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| He forged forward against the current, even as it tried to sweep him down river. |
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| The supporters of the fossil-fool industry have tried to characterize conservation and solar as inefficient, uncomfortable, costly, and unproven. |
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| I tried to be a friend to Jane but we never really made friends. She was never a friend to me. |
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| The previous attempts foundered when they tried to take this gendarme directly. |
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| I should never have tried to grind the computer system to a halt. Firstly I got sacked, and then my boss gave me a right earful. |
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| The guy went ballistic when I tried to tell him he couldn't return the socks if the package had been opened. |
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| He tried to clinch and gouge, but another right hook to the jaw sent him down and out. |
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| The headless horseman harrowed Ichabod Crane as he tried to reach the bridge. |
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| In 685 it was invaded by Caedwalla, who tried to replace the inhabitants with his own followers. |
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| After wintering in the James Bay, Hudson tried to press on with his voyage in the spring of 1611, but his crew mutinied and they cast him adrift. |
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| Some industrialists themselves tried to improve factory and living conditions for their workers. |
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| They tried to make more money by putting lots of salt in the popcorn and hiking up the price of drinks. |
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| She tried to make this sound hipsterishly arch and mocking, but she wanted to know. |
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| Prussia, Austria, and Russia, as absolute monarchies, tried to suppress liberalism wherever it might occur. |
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| When he tried to get Parliament to pass a law allowing him to divorce his wife Queen Caroline, public opinion strongly supported her. |
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| It tried to fight back with submarines, despite the risk of war by the powerful neutral power the United States. |
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| They slew 7,000 Irish but, as the knights tried to move the rocks with ropes and force, they failed. |
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| The Second Mithridatic War began when Rome tried to annex a province that Mithridates claimed as his own. |
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| If any magistrate tried to use the powers of the state against a citizen, that citizen could appeal the decision of the magistrate to a tribune. |
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| The king instead tried to leave control of the region, at least in part, to his children. |
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| I have always tried to interpret his plays with as much humor and humanity as possible. |
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| Petronius was unable to muster any effective response and was killed by a mob as he tried to flee the city. |
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| William remained in England after his coronation and tried to reconcile the native magnates. |
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| He tried to delve inside his memory for clues about what had happened. |
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| In early 1174, Henry's enemies appeared to have tried to lure him back into England, allowing them to attack Normandy in his absence. |
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| John pursued the Black Prince, who tried to avoid battling the French king's superior force. |
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| The Black Prince tried to recover his losses by raising taxes in Aquitaine, which prompted them to appeal to the King of France. |
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| France was a opportune ally of the Scots as English Kings had for some time tried to subjugate the area. |
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| She never let anyone challenge her authority as queen, even though many people, who felt she was weak and should be married, tried to do so. |
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| The Royal Navy was also involved in an incident involving Somali pirates in November 2008, after the pirates tried to capture a civilian vessel. |
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| However, Thomas Seymour continued scheming to control the royal family and tried to have himself appointed the governor of the King's person. |
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| The headright system tried to solve the labor shortage by providing colonists with land for each indentured servant they transported to Virginia. |
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| When the family wrapped up my father's will, no one tried to make me feel involved. |
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| The Dutch had a large force at their disposal but when they tried to take Manila, they were defeated at the Battles of La Naval de Manila. |
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| In 1858 the Vietnamese emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty felt threatened by the French influence and tried to expel the missionaries. |
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| They tried to oppose its completion by diplomatic pressures and by promoting revolts among workers. |
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| When William arrived on 5 November 1688, James lost his nerve, declined to attack the invading Dutch and tried to flee to France. |
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| He tried to bring the Tories to his side by making concessions but failed because he still refused to endorse the Test Act. |
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| On 25 February 1723 a servant who tried to awaken Wren from his nap found that he had died. |
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| On 11 December, James tried to flee to France, allegedly first throwing the Great Seal of the Realm into the River Thames. |
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| The opposition used this resource to mobilise public opinion against the monarchy, which in turn tried to repress the underground literature. |
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| Riley lowered his eyebrows and crossed his arms and tried to look non-judgy even if he felt a little judgy. |
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| When passing a Whig club, the coach came under attack from a group of men who tried to assault Pitt. |
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| When news of this spread, it was assumed Fox and his associates had tried to bring down Pitt by any means. |
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| At the Battle of Maloyaroslavets the French tried to reach Kaluga, where they could find food and forage supplies. |
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| When his back was to the wall in 1814 he tried to reopen peace negotiations on the basis of accepting the Frankfurt proposals. |
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| A kabaragoya, scenting food, tried to drive away the crows, slashing at them with its tail. |
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| Ney therefore tried to break Wellesley's centre with a cavalry charge alone. |
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| When the policeman tried to take Gunn into custody he defended himself with a kalsomine brush to the great detriment of the officer's uniform. |
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| Fighting back panic, she tried to keep her cool and find a way out from under the rubble. |
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| Some young thugs tried to kick her door down last night. She was terrified. |
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| During his conduct of the war, Edward tried to circumvent parliament as much as possible, which caused this edict to be passed. |
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| He got a few knockbacks today when he tried to give his resume out at the local shops. |
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| I gave myself a mental shakedown, tried to suppress my ladyboner and pushed past him. |
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| He lamely tried to lie his way out of the situation, but he wasn't really trying and no-one believed him. |
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| However, Edward proceeded to treat Balliol as a vassal, and tried to exert influence over Scotland. |
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| Over the years she'd tried to tell himself that his uptown girl was just another lay. |
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| Parliament tried to regulate this and ban the unofficial traders from the Change streets. |
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| Here the leather-legginged boy laughed very heartily, and then tried to look as if it was somebody else, whereat Mr. Winkle frowned majestically. |
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| It tried to keep a fixed exchange rate, and attempted to deal with inflation and sterling weakness by credit and exchange controls. |
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| In January 1645 a Royalist force tried to recapture the bridge and destroy it. |
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| In 1787, 1789, and 1790, Dissenters again tried to repeal the Test and Corporation Acts. |
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| Priestley tried to obtain restitution from the government for the destruction of his Birmingham property, but he was never fully reimbursed. |
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| Priestley tried to continue his scientific investigations in America with the support of the American Philosophical Society. |
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| They had tried to get more people and fund more bombes through the proper channels, but they were getting nowhere. |
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| In 1952, he tried to implement it on a Ferranti Mark 1, but lacking enough power, the computer was unable to execute the program. |
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| He tried to climb into the carriage, but he gripped the open door, which swung back, causing him to lose his grip. |
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| Subsequent writers like Ruzar Briffa and Karmenu Vassallo tried to estrange themselves from the rigidity of formal themes and versification. |
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| As emperor, Domitian assumed totalitarian characteristics, thought he could be a new Augustus, and tried to make a personal cult of himself. |
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| I tried to get Michele's attention at the party, but she looked right through me! |
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| Since the 1990s, the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages has tried to standardise the learning of languages across Europe. |
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| William then tried to personally bestow the pallium to Anselm, an act connoting the church's subservience to the throne, and was again refused. |
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| He charged Anselm with having given him insufficient knights for the campaign and tried to fine him. |
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| Methodists saw alcoholic beverages, and alcoholism, as the root of many social ills and tried to persuade people to abstain from these. |
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| When Henry tried to divorce Queen Catherine of Aragon, Fisher became the Queen's chief supporter. |
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| However, in March, 2016, Prince Andrew ignored these rules and tried to gain access to the park by ramming the gates in his car. |
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| As part of Richard's programme of asserting his authority, he also tried to cultivate the royal image. |
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| In his visits to Paris in his last years van Dyck tried to obtain the commission to paint the Grande Gallerie of the Louvre without success. |
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| Some earlier Latin poets tried to make up for this deficiency by creating new compound words, as the Greeks had done. |
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| Church leaders frequently tried to place restrictions on jousts and tournaments, which at times ended in the death of the loser. |
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| He was still a soldier in the army of freedom, and still tried to enlighten and civilize those who were impatiently waiting for his death. |
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| Savage's friends tried to help him by attempting to persuade him to move to Wales, but Savage ended up in Bristol and again fell into debt. |
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