Efforts to revive it have so far come to naught.
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Efforts to tame an overbearing bureaucracy that discourages investment have come to naught.
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Yet some have lamented that those promises have come to naught so far.
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But one by one, each of his pledges to his base have come to naught.
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Aside from some nice marketing from drone light shows, it's pretty much all come to naught.
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Officials in the Afghan central government adamantly denied Thursday that such sacrifices had come to naught.
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If climate action did come to naught, however, risk would return to strike investors in other ways.
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Few paid much heed; the country has a minor history of liberals and centrists who come to naught.
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And if the programme is rolled out nationwide, efforts to get them to operate more responsibly would come to naught.
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Its promise of a "one-stop shop" to replace them all, made 18 months ago, has so far come to naught.
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Mitchell, initially tolerant of Gould's erratic behavior, becomes increasingly frustrated as various attempts to get the Oral History published come to naught.
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But by 2004, the lawsuit was dead and Mr. Graves's effort to provide the government with damning evidence had come to naught.
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Bosses Xavier Rolet and Carsten Kengeter will be disappointed if their efforts come to naught - but neither is any worse off for having tried.
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In a trollish online chat with a Polish security team, he crowed about how all the efforts to seize his network had come to naught.
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If the result this Sunday is a "no"—still a real possibility—the negotiations and cabinet sketches of past weeks will have come to naught.
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In other words, Papadopoulos was a peripheral figure whose failing efforts to impress the campaign with his Russian contacts seem to have come to naught.
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But skepticism dominates among market watchers, after talk of possible production cuts from both OPEC and non-OPEC players over recent weeks have come to naught.
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I am aware that fat people often are genetically predisposed to being as they are, and that whatever efforts they may make to diet come to naught.
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But since the agreement is widely embraced and Iran has complied with it, one-sided efforts to negotiate away its flaws are likely to come to naught.
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As Mashable reported at the time, Apple has a variety of patents and acquisitions that suggested an ongoing interest in the technology, although it could all come to naught.
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However, Chairman Johannes Magwaza, a relatively new member of a refreshed board, said that any turnaround strategy would come to naught if the company fails to address its heavy debt.
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"The hair was curled, and the maid sent away, and Emma sat down to think and be miserable," writes Austen after one of Emma's matchmaking plans has come to naught.
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His desire to "completely leave behind all the problems and to create a warm environment between Turkey and Germany just like it used to be" will, in all likelihood, come to naught.
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The Europeans and Russians have talked about setting up a barter system to avoid American-imposed sanctions and keep Iran complying with the deal, but so far those efforts have come to naught.
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In the past, appeals to change the order of Democratic contests have come to naught, but things may be different this time, particularly given that Perez is not the only party leader calling for reform.
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Under such an outcome, Mr. Netanyahu could claim a degree of vindication and campaign while facing lesser charges of fraud and breach of trust, and insisting that they, too, would come to naught in court.
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So, too, did Trump's impetuous effort to meet with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, which thus far has come to naught because Rouhani has refused the president's offer unless he first lifts America's sanctions on Iran.
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She sentenced him to 13 months on the second conspiracy charge, which involved obstruction of justice, saying his efforts to influence the testimony of witnesses had largely come to naught because the witnesses had rebuffed him.
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Yet as people increasingly gravitate to smartphones and tablets for their computing needs, shifting into what has been called the "post-PC era," the investment into design and new innovations by PC makers may come to naught.
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Its owners have subsidised the growth of the sport in America for years on the understanding they were buying into a protected club; were they suddenly to face the risk of relegation, those investments would likely come to naught.
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I last got to try Project Soli way back in 2016, when I used prototypes in a smartwatch and a speaker: Lots of ATAP projects have come to naught, and to be honest I assumed the same thing would happen to Soli.
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While the demand from some quarters that a separate Maori side should compete at the Rugby World Cup has come to naught, the team's name was changed from "New Zealand Maori" to "Maori All Blacks" to mark its status as representative of a nation.
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Macron's efforts, however, could come to naught because another "Duke of Milan" (Machiavelli used to work for Milan's Duke Francesco Sforza) will be showing a stunning political comeback next March -- and he is leading a group of euro-skeptics dead-set against French-German shenanigans.
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Judiciary Committee Republicans blasted Democrats for pursuing what they called the first "partisan filibuster" of a Supreme Court nominee - there was a successful bipartisan filibuster five decades ago against a Democratic president's nominee - and said it would come to naught because of the threatened rule change.
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As a play, Angels rises above its companions in large part because it helps us grasp the latter: how political and personal disappointment lead us to despair, and how despair gives way to a kind of vertigo, as the projects that once gave our lives orientation come to naught.
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As with the olive branches that President Trump has ostentatiously offered to Russia, China, and North Koea, this particular peace initiative may come to naught — or, given the approach of the 2020 elections, he may decide that Afghanistan offers his last best hope of claiming at least one foreign policy success.
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Attempts at reasoning with President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, like those by French President Emmanuel Macron in July, have come to naught.
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Efforts by Mestiri and other UN mediators to bring the contending factions together and select a successor to Rabbani come to naught. The military-political situation is so unstable that serious negotiations are impossible.
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McCoy, p. 329. The KMT's revenue from the opium trade was much diminished; their 15-year control of the smuggling routes, collecting their "transit tax", had ended with the fighting at Ban Khwan.McCoy, p. 296. On the other hand, Khun Sa's bid for supremacy in opium dealing had come to naught.
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Have you counted past gains > as but loss? Has your trust in yourself and your merits Come to naught > before Christ and His cross?The Cyber Hymnal, O That Pearl of Great Price! A less common interpretation of the parable is that the merchant represents Jesus, and the pearl represents the Christian Church.
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Remaining essentially "untouched" were day-to-day social relations between husband and wife and children. Attempts at establishing new religions and personal habits come to naught. The revolutions' "results look rather petty as measured by the brotherhood of man and the achievement of justice on this earth. The blood of the martyrs seems hardly necessary to establish decimal coinage" (p. 259).
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Eno had been keen on creating a record label in 1973 to release experimental music, but this had come to naught. But in 1975, buoyed by the success of his solo career, he approached Island Records, who were receptive to the idea. That year Obscure Records was launched with four albums released simultaneously. The album with the catalogue number Obscure no.
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A European and North American Railway opened through Bangor, with President Ulysses S. Grant officiating at the inauguration, but commerce never lived up to the potential. More recent attempts to capture traffic between Halifax and Montreal by constructing an East–West Highway through Maine have also come to naught. Most overland traffic between the two parts of Canada continues to travel north of Maine rather than across it.
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Maurice Buckmaster, leader of the French section of SOE, proposed an expansion of SOE to deal with Carte and approved a contribution of supplies and equipment. The potential of Carte was a "dominating influence" over the work of SOE's French section in 1942, work that would come to naught. The official historian of the SOE, M.R.D. Foot said that Girard "combined an ingenious administrative talent with a total ignorance of security."Foot, p.
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In the meantime, it appeared that his family's ambitions had come to naught. His brother Angelo had stood for election as Doge in 1646, but lost out to Francesco Molin. Angelo's death in 1657 appeared to sound the death knell for the family's ambitions: Domenico Contarini was over seventy years old, while his son, Giulio, was still too young to achieve high political office. It appeared that the work of a generation had been lost.
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The Ottomans begin to tighten the noose around Musa Dagh. Bagradian recovers from his grief, to form guerrilla bands to disrupt the Ottoman advance and buy more time. No ships have been sighted and attempts to contact the Allies or to seek the diplomatic intercession of the United States, still a neutral power, or Turkey's ally, Imperial Germany, come to naught. Bagradian derives strength and comfort from Iskuhi, who has volunteered to care for Juliette.
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The Florentine leaders, especially the chancellor Coluccio Salutati worked successfully to rally the people of Florence, but the Florentines were being taxed hard by famine, disease, and poverty. Galeazzo won another victory over the Bolognese at the Battle of Casalecchio on 26 June 1402. Galeazzo's dreams were to come to naught, however, as he succumbed to a fever at the castello of Melegnano on 10 August 1402. He died on 3 September.
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Wells gives considerable attention to the fate of the Jews. In this history, an enfeebled Nazi Germany is incapable of systematic murder on the scale of the Holocaust. However, Jews greatly suffer from "unorganized" persecution, and there is a reference to anti-Jewish pogroms happening "everywhere in Europe" during the chaotic 1950s. Then, in a world where all nation-states are a doomed anachronism, Zionism and its ambition to create a new state come to naught.
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Nor one who is greedy for pleasure, submissive to > passion, nor one obsessed with acquisition and accumulation-neither of them > is a guardian of religion in any respect. They resemble mothering so much as > grazing cattle! Thus does knowledge die with death of its bearers. But > indeed, my Allah, the earth will never be empty of one who establishes the > proof of Allah, whether overtly with publicity or fearfully in obscurity, > lest Allah's proofs and elucidations come to naught.
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He had reasoned out his own conclusions years before from speculative principles, and he warned them that if they were not content to begin where he had left off, their work would come to naught. This attack from Hobbes was one of several at the time: other opponents of Boyle were Franciscus Linus and Henry More.Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump (1985), p. 155, and translation of the Dialogus, pp. 345-391.
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Thus, it was at the head of the True Cross that Heraclius entered the Capital on September 14, 628 triumphant. Leading a procession which included four elephants, the True Cross was placed high atop the altar of the Hagia Sophia. By this time, it was generally expected by the Byzantine populace that the Emperor would lead Byzantium into a new age of glory. However, all of Heraclius' achievements would come to naught, when, in 633, the Byzantine-Arab Wars began.
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In March 2009, White began efforts to reinstate the New Mexico death penalty. The campaign is called Repeal the repeal, which is presently moribund and has come to naught. In 2010 the mayor of Albuquerque, Richard J. Berry appointed Darren White to oversee the Albuquerque police department as the Chief Public Safety Officer, the highest law enforcement position in the city of Albuquerque. He has since stepped down from this position due to, among other things, startling numbers of controversial police shootings.
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As their numbers thinned, the surviving Mamluks endeavored to maintain their remaining power by training some hundreds of blacks. However, soon it would all come to naught, on the approach of Ismail, another son of Muhammad Ali, who was sent with an army in 1820 to subdue Nubia and Sennar. At that point, some of the remaining Mamluks submitted, returned to Egypt, and settled in Cairo, while the rest, amounting to about 100 persons, fled in dispersed parties to the countries adjacent to Sennar.
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With the defeat, Kichitaro becomes an empty shell, feeling that everything he had worked for had come to naught. In Kōfu, however, Hanako and Kichitarō learn from Kippei the need to be proud of their efforts and the importance of making up for what they had done. Kichitaro decides to take over the farm and Daigo arrives to declare her intention to stay with Kichitaro. Knowing her father wants to hear her again on air, Hanako resumes her radio show, and Kippei dies happily while hearing his daughter's voice over the broadcast.
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When Tinney returned to New York in 1925, he found that many of his friends had deserted him and that his popularity with the theater-going public had waned. His attempts to salvage his marriage eventually had come to naught by March 1926. Around this time, Tinney began to experience a series of health issues that began with complication from broken ribs suffered in a fall and a later nervous breakdown, greatly hindering his attempts at a comeback. By 1930, Tinney was home in Philadelphia living with his father, his career virtually over.
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When negotiations with Generals Ma Zhanshan and Ting Chao had come to naught, Japanese Colonel Kenji Doihara in early January 1932 requested that General Xi Qia advance with his forces to take Harbin from the last major Kuomintang force in the north led by General Ting Chao. General Xi Qia advanced to Shuangcheng on 25 January, and fighting began on the morning of the 26th. However, Xi Qia's troops soon suffered a serious reverse and Doihara was forced to call upon the Kwantung Army to assist. To justify this, Colonel Doihara created the Harbin Incident.
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There has been a fire in the town, and, in the crisis, people are passing in and out of the room, carrying blankets and clothes to give aid. Olga, Masha and Irina are angry with their brother, Andrei, for mortgaging their home, keeping the money to pay off his gambling debts and conceding all his power to his wife. However, when faced with Natasha's cruelty to their aged family retainer, Anfisa, Olga's own best efforts to stand up to Natasha come to naught. Masha, alone with her sisters, confides in them her romance with Vershinin ("I love, love, love that man.").
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I > could make a fortune if I could get my hands on her money, money she intends > to give me in any event, after she dies, but which she refuses to give me > now. In order to avoid a huge tax bite, I plan to donate a handsome sum of > my profits to a local children's hospital. Many, many children will benefit > from my generosity, and much joy will be brought to their parents, relatives > and friends. If I don't get the money rather soon, all these ambitions will > come to naught [...] He goes on to describe the plot in which he murders his Aunt.
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An indication of the power and historical impact of the Banu Gómez is seen through their roles in two medieval epics of the Iberian peninsula. The tale of Bernardo del Carpio first appears in the 13th century, and relates the saga of the son of a legendary Sancho Díaz, count of Saldaña. The father had been blinded and imprisoned over his love for, and perhaps marriage to, Jimena, the sister of king Alfonso II of Asturias. Their son, Bernardo is raised by Alfonso as heir, but his attempts to get the king to release his father come to naught, and he eventually turns to rebellion and revenge.
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By 21 April 1986, Systime's tale was the lead story on the front page of The Guardian newspaper. The directors of Systime filed an action with the European Commission saying that the US actions were a breach of European Union laws protecting free trade among member nations, but the damage was done. The British government did eventually file a protest against the United States based on the allegation that the latter had used the Central Intelligence Agency to illicitly gain information about British companies. However the British government did not intercede in any way that forestalled the damage done to Systime, and Meadowcroft's efforts had come to naught.
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His father's choice of a regent, Sushun, was removed in favor of a partnership between his mother Empress Dowager Cixi and Empress Dowager Ci'an. While there had most likely been hopes that the Tongzhi Emperor would become a leader like the Kangxi Emperor (who ascended the throne as a child in 1661), those hopes would soon come to naught, as the Tongzhi Emperor grew up to become an obstinate and dissolute young man. In the fall of 1872, the teenage emperor married Empress Xiaozheyi and two official concubines. The Tongzhi Emperor apparently had wanted to take up power immediately, prompting a quarrel at court regarding the dismantling of the regency and the timing of it.
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The painting was done at a difficult time for Munch: a commission for a portrait in Hamburg (of a Senator Holthusen, the father in law of Munch's patron Max Linde) had come to naught because of disagreements. As a result, Munch suffered anxieties, which he attempted to manage with alcohol. A visit to a brothel in Lübeck is supposedly the background to Christmas in the Brothel, a "light yet melancholy" painting in which the working girls in a brothel have just finished decorating a Christmas tree. "Ironic, sentimentally unholy", the painting is interpreted as a commentary on both Linde's upper-class household (where Munch was staying at the time) and Munch's own "pietistic home background".
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With nowhere else to go, she moves to Brewster Place where she is welcomed by the now-adult Ciel (Lynn Whitfield). Other residents of Brewster Place include Ben, the elderly handyman (Moses Gunn); Cora Lee, a welfare mother with six unruly children by different fathers (Phyllis Yvonne Stickney); Miss Sophie, an elderly self-righteous gossip (Olivia Cole); and a young educated couple, Melanie "Kiswana" Browne (Robin Givens) and her boyfriend Abshu (Leon). Mattie's old friend Etta Mae, who has grown weary of living life in the fast lane, soon returns to live with Mattie. She hopes to meet a nice man to settle down within her old age, but her efforts come to naught.
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Kocher writes that the furthest look into Man's future in The Lord of the Rings is the conversation between the Elf Legolas and the Dwarf Gimli, close friends, at the moment when they first visit Minas Tirith, the capital city of the Men of Gondor, "and see the marks of decay around them". Gimli says that the works of Men always "fail of their promise"; Legolas replies that even if that's so, "seldom do they fail of their seed", in marked contrast to the scarcity of children among Elves and Dwarves, implying that Men will outlast the other races. Gimli suggests again that Men's projects "come to naught in the end but might-have-beens". Legolas just replies "To that the Elves know not the answer".
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Reporting of casualty numbers during the invasion varied widely and fluctuated day to day. On April 10, the BBC reported that Israel estimated 150 Palestinians had died in Jenin, and Palestinians were saying the number was far higher. That same day, Saeb Erekat, on a phone interview to CNN from Jericho, estimated that there were a total of 500 Palestinians killed during Operation Defensive Shield, this figure also including fatalities outside of the Jenin camp, in other areas of the West Bank. On April 11, Ben Wedeman of CNN reported that Palestinians were reporting 500 dead, while international relief agencies were saying possibly as many as 200; he noted that his efforts to independently verify the claims had so far come to naught since people were being prevented from entering the camp by Israeli soldiers.
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Dagobert may well have envisaged turning Jerusalem into a fiefdom of the pope; however his full intentions are not clear. Much of the evidence for this comes from William of Tyre, whose account of these events is troublesome; it is only William who tells us that Dagobert forced Godfrey to concede Jerusalem and Jaffa, while other writers such as Albert of Aachen and Ralph of Caen suggest that both Dagobert and his ally Tancred had sworn an oath to Godfrey to accept only one of his brothers or blood relations as his successor. Whatever Dagobert's schemes, they were destined to come to naught. Being at Haifa at the time of Godfrey's death, he could do nothing to stop Godfrey's supporters, led by Warner of Grez, from seizing Jerusalem and demanding that Godfrey's brother Baldwin should succeed to the rule.
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However, the crew of the #55 would see their effort come to naught at the final hour, as in the final pitstop, the #55 suffered from an engine ignition issue, losing 1 lap in the process, and demoting the car to 6th at the finish. At the third round of the season, the BUBBA Burger Sports Car Grand Prix, held on the streets of Long Beach, the #55 came in third during qualifying, before both cars came home 4th and 9th, the #77 leading the #55 home. At the fourth round, held at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, both the #55 Mazda RT24-P and the #77 challenged throughout the first half of the race before fading towards the end, with the #55’s retiring just after the halfway mark, following contact with a GT car resulting in suspension damage, the #77 meanwhile, finishing the race third.
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Evidently, Wells greatly overestimated the influence of Spanish Liberals such as Unamuno on Spanish society as a whole. Wells correctly predicted that the coming war would involve both sides launching heavy bombings of each other's main cities, and his detailed depiction of the destroyed Unter Den Linden closely predicted its actual fate in the war. However, Wells wrongly assumed that land fighting would quickly bog down, as in World War I, and that the idea of using tanks to develop a war of movement would come to naught. Wells predicted that submarines would become the launching pads for "air torpedoes" (missiles) carrying weapons of mass destruction, enabling a country to threaten the destruction of places halfway around the world although that actually happened decades after World War II. Wells' predicted war ends with no victor but total exhaustion, collapse and disintegration of all the fighting states and of the neutral countries, which are equally affected by the deepening economic crisis.
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Madison initiates a wide-reaching public relations campaign to make Heller known to the world as the "Whiz Kid", but results in destroying Heller's reputation so that all of Heller's efforts to save the planet come to naught, as Madison's employer, Rockecenter, wanted. Heller's outstanding skills and abilities are reinforced by the arrival on Earth of his fiancée, the Countess Krak, and the alliance and friendship of the Mafia—specifically the Corleone family. After a series of world-shattering events, which include the impact of an ice meteor on the Soviet Union, the world's entire oil supply being turned radioactive, and a black hole orbiting the Earth, Heller returns to Voltar to find that not only have Hisst's plans to enslave the government nearly succeeded, but Madison is starting a galactic civil war. After the defeat of Hisst and Madison, a massive cover-up operation commences to wipe out the effects of PR, psychology and psychiatry.
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These moves represented a significant diplomatic success given the Muslim orientation of the northern- dominated government. Some northern leaders disapproved of contact with Israel and banned Israelis from Maiduguri and Sokoto.Levey, "Israel, Nigeria and the Biafra civil war" (2014), pp. 264–265. "Israel was certain that Nigeria, the most populous country on the continent (fifty- five million in 1960) and rich in oil, would have a great influence on African poli- tics. The Israeli foreign ministry was determined to establish full diplomatic relations upon that colony's receipt of independence (1 October 1960). Ehud Avriel, ambassador to Ghana and a close confidant of both Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and Foreign Minister Golda Meir, cautioned that were Israel to fail to establish ties with Nigeria, ‘all of our work in West Africa will have come to naught’." Israel did not begin arms sales to Nigeria until after Aguyi-Ironsi came to power on January 17, 1966. This was considered an opportune time to develop this relationship with the federal government.
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