In 1950, after Estimé had attempted to extend his term, the military took control.
In the 1960s, Robert Moses attempted to extend the Richmond Parkway across the spine of Staten Island.
These events echo what was dubbed Burkina Faso's "revolution 2.0" in November last year, as President Blaise Compaoré attempted to extend his mandate.
As to literature and all those arts in which words play a part (song, opera, drama, cinema), the formalist position would seem to be impossible, and indeed formalists have seldom attempted to extend their theory to literature.
Some commentators have attempted to extend Nietzsche's concept of the will to power from human life to the organic and inorganic realms, ascribing a metaphysics of will to power to him.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, however, attempted to extend the Christmas shopping season, which generally begins with the Thanksgiving holiday, and to boost the economy by moving the date back a week, to the third week in November.
Though the constitution limited the authority of the monarch, Moshoeshoe attempted to extend his powers, causing Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan, of the Basotho National Party (BNP), to place him under house arrest in December 1966.
The book was so successful that Lamartine attempted to extend it two years later with his Nouvelles méditations poétiques and his Mort de Socrates, in which his preoccupation with metaphysics first became evident.
