The religious activities of traditional human beings are the recurring attempts to return to the beginning, to the Great Time, to trace again and renew the process by which the structure and order of the cosmos were established.
Parallel to this reduction of syllabus time, however, there have been recurring attempts to strengthen the history subject, especially from the right, and targeted campaigns to raise awareness and knowledge of particular historical events.
Most notably, they have highlighted the conservatives' recurring attempt to block money for the National Endowment for the Arts.
We had cabin fever from staying inside all day, so she was naturally bugged out by my endless poop humor, mouth noises, and recurring falsetto attempts at the chorus of Without You by Harry Nilsson.
Symptoms usually resolved following a period of rest, but recurred when attempting to play top spin shots with rapid forearm rotation.
Anderson Cooper had a recurring reaction to his attempts to become James Bond a day: a Debbie Downer "wah-wah".
Although each attempt may have technical problems of its own, the recurring problem is that the attempts to separate content-determining from non-content-determining causes threaten to smuggle in semantic elements.
In experienced hands, the procedure tends to be very effective and with limited side effects, but lesions may recur and further attempts may be required.
It is something I try not to do, partly because it ages the adviser with a misleading and premature sageness but mostly (judging from my attempts to correct recurring errors in the Guardian) because it is usually disregarded if not actually counter-productive.
So I have spent the last 10 years forgetting the more than 20 years before that during which my mother suffered from severe recurring depression, her multiple suicide attempts, hospitalizations, outpatient ECT treatments, her cycle of dazed, better, fine, too good, bitter, worse, bad, crazy, immobilized and unwilling, and needing to go to the hospital.
During the debate and in earlier appearances in the 13th District--which spans Hollywood and Los Feliz, Silver Lake and Echo Park--the candidates have focused on neighborhood crime, encroaching development in residential areas and Hollywood's recurring problems with transients and attempts at revitalization.
