Greater Manchester's council leaders want to appoint an "11th leader" as part of efforts to convince the government to devolve more power to the region.
Cocceji also inspired the establishment in 1750 of a new Superior Consistory to supervise church and educational affairs and began the process of legal codification that culminated after Frederick's death in the issue of the Prussian Common Law (Das Allgemeine Preussische Landrecht) of 1794, one of the most important 18th-century efforts of this kind.
The whole carp thing began in the 16th century as a byproduct of efforts to drain marshy farmland on the country estates of Austrian aristocrats in southern Bohemia.
This year, a proposal to build a 100,000-seat domed sports stadium over the rail yards west of 10th Avenue has become the linchpin of efforts by powerful rival forces to bring the Olympics to New York City in the summer of 2012.
Motion picture making in Macedonia dates to the early 20th-century efforts of brothers Milton and Janaki Manaki and includes Before the Rain (1994), which was directed by Milcho Manchevski and was nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign-language film.
The most popular English translations today are the 20th-century efforts of Abdullah Yusuf Ali (a very British Indian), Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall (a pro-Ottoman Englishman) and Muhammad Asad (born Leopold Weiss, an Austrian Jew).
Is this a renewal of 19th-century efforts to rationalize the czarist empire under German leadership?
Telescopic mapping of the Moon followed: later in the 17th century, the efforts of Giovanni Battista Riccioli and Francesco Maria Grimaldi led to the system of naming of lunar features in use today.
Mr. Byrd was eager to claim credit for the measure, which passed the House 73 to 24. "I was chewing on his leg," he said of his 11th-hour efforts to get Mr. King to take up the legislation in the Senate.
When the Indian Independence Movement gained momentum in the early part of the 20th Century, efforts were undertaken to make Hindustani as a common language to unite various linguistic groups against the British Government.
Oh, and Spain is in 10th through the efforts of just one man - Fernando Alonso.
