He could be putting the pressure on to highlight the hopelessness of President Vladimir Putin's policy towards Chechnya.An abortive war in the 1990s, launched by Boris Yeltsin, left thousands dead in the republic.
Though a definite improvement on the last three abortive "Star Wars" prequels directed by series creator George Lucas, "The Force Awakens" is only at its best in fits and starts, its success dependent on who of its mix of franchise veterans and first-timers is on the screen.
But they haven't.On balance, the finds so far are less damning than the meagre ones made by the UN inspectors during their abortive pre-war mission.
He then went on to Hegau and Klettgau, the area where the Peasants' War (an abortive revolt in 1524 25 against the nobles over rising taxes, deflation, and other grievances) was beginning, and stayed through the winter in Griessen.
They include Sir Thomas More, Anne Boleyn, the future Elizabeth I (on orders of Mary Tudor and Rudolf Hesss, the deputy Führer, who was held there during World War II after his abortive flight to Scotland.
The Peace Conference looks every day more like the abortive effort to end the Peloponnesian War, which ended in treaties that nobody kept, or like the Conference that carried the Balkans from the struggle that put Turkey down to the struggle that set her up again.
Much less honorable a man, but nearly as important in the early history of the republic, Major-General James Wilkinson had something to do with just about everything on the American frontier, from the abortive invasion of Canada in the War of 1812 to the Spanish intrigues in Kentucky and Louisiana, to the first stirrings of Texan independence.
A successful Kratos plucked Gaia and the Titans from the moment in time before their defeat in the Great War to launch an abortive attack on Olympus.
In 1914, during the first world war, German warships made an abortive attack on Stanley.
He led the Movement for Democracy in Algeria (Mouvement pour la Démocratie en Algérie), a moderate Islamist opposition party he had founded in 1984 while in exile, in the first round of the country's abortive 1991 parliamentary elections (see Algeria: Civil war: the Islamists versus the army).
A nun walks past a North Vietnamese Army corpse after an abortive attempt to breach a prisoner of war compound that ended in a massacre at the nearby Dong Lach refugee camp in 1969.
