Some current and former administration officials, speaking on background, have expressed frustration with Obama for not yet forming a comprehensive approach to Isis, and especially for not attempting to take territory in eastern Syria away from the jihadi group.
In February, director of the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Lt Gen Michael T Flynn testified in Congress that ISIS "probably will attempt to take territory in Iraq and Syria to exhibit its strength in 2014".
She attempted to take her own life.
At three or four years of age, the males can attempt to take over a territory and the female members.
Some of MacMillan's experiments failed, but others succeeded gloriously, and in damning him for attempting to take ballet into new territory while simultaneously bewailing the art form's incipient demise, she demonstrates only that she, not ballet, has run out of steam.
MOSCOW — Georgia accused Russia of attempting to take a small wedge of additional territory on Sunday on the boundary of the breakaway region of South Ossetia, amid mounting tension days before the anniversary of last year's five-day war.
Over the next year, the Pentagon plans to train and arm Syrian rebels in Saudi Arabia into an effective fighting force to hold Syrian territory that the US and allied air campaign will attempt to take away from Isis.
The Kurds have taken advantage of the crisis to take territory disputed with the Arabs.
Maybe the topics that have seized professional historians' attention — family history, social history, women's history, cultural history, "microhistory" — constitute nothing more than an attempt to take back territory they forfeited to novelists in the eighteenth century.
Maybe the topics that have seized professional historians' attention family history, social history, women's history, cultural history, "microhistory"—constitute nothing more than an attempt to take back territory they forfeited to novelists in the eighteenth century.
