With the hope of negotiating a peace settlement, on 7 November 1998, President Andrés Pastrana granted FARC-EP a safe haven meant to serve as a confidence building measure, centered around the San Vicente del Caguán settlement.

When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he ( with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe ) expanded the building outward, creating two colonnades that were meant to conceal stables and storage.

They might have been something between a " status symbol " and a " passive defence " building, meant to be a deterrent for possible enemies.

Since in early July 1940 it was believed by both Hitler and Raeder that Britain would soon surrender, the decision to resume the Z Plan, which meant spending hundreds of millions of Reichsmarks building warships that would take at least five years to finish, reflected plans for an ultimate war with the United States.

This meant that narrower or wider arches were introduced into a building plan wherever necessity dictated.

However, this also meant that building the most basic system, with a single processor, required both chips and considerable wiring between them, driving up costs.

Planners and building officials encouraged this, for this was a time when old was considered ugly and new buildings meant progress.

The architectural work and the quality of the building's works of art meant that the historic building was declared a national monument of historic and artistic interest in 1970.

By reasoning using " induction " Bacon meant the ability to gradually generalize a finding based on accumulating data-he advised proceeding by this method ( building a case from the ground up ).

For example, it meant that the project of building an open and independent Trotskyist party was shelved in France, because it was regarded as not politically feasible alongside entry into the French Communist Party.

. The concept, born out of " a sense of mission to redeem the Old World ", was enabled by " the potentialities of a new earth for building a new heaven " The phrase itself meant many different things to many different people.

Over the 15-year period of the building of the estate, the school-aged population rose rapidly to 25, 000 while there were only 4 secondary schools nearby: 3 in Chadwell Heath and 1 at Becontree Heath, which meant that many children could not attend school.

Delays in building work meant the first intake of pupils were taught at St Mary's Grammar School in Northwood Hills from 9 September 1959.

The possible combinations of these basic language building blocks were quite simple, and the program was fairly adept at figuring out what the user meant.

The goal that they had, shutting down the meetings, was directly accomplished by placing their bodies and other debris between the WTO delegates and the building they were meant to meet in.

The building is unique because its ' double ' design meant that there were courts, halls, sanctuaries and rooms duplicated for two sets of gods.

The Works Progress Administration ( WPA ), a New Deal agency, was active in Sulphur Springs, building in 1942 what was later called the “ Old School ,” meant to replace the crumbling 1908 structure that was razed in 1938.

The building of the Five Star Cheese Plant also meant jobs for

In their experience, building costly enterprises such as railroads customarily meant raising large sums of money through public stock offerings and bonds.

" Wagnerism " meant the adoption of Wagner's theories of a continuous role for the orchestra and the building of an integrated musical drama, rather than a stringing together of lyrical numbers.

By 1945 it had become too closely identified with the presidency of Ireland to be demolished, though its poor condition meant that extensive demolition and rebuilding of parts of the building were necessary, notably the kitchens, servants ' quarters and chapel.

Team projects are meant as fun-team building activities or as highly competitive competitions to examine leadership abilities in employees.

However, this would have meant building it on fill, which is unstable during earthquakes.

The huge cost of the building the other castles, however, meant that the Llanfaes project had to be postponed.

For a number of years Kentucky, Louisiana and several other states have been building state-sponsored vocational education schools that serve nearby school districts in several counties.

The building was designed to serve as both a public library and a community center.

Autonomy often dramatically reduces the costs and impacts of networks that serve the building, because autonomy short-circuits the multiplying inefficiencies of collecting and transporting resources.

After seeing a corrugated iron cottage at the Great Exhibition of 1851, Prince Albert ordered a pre-fabricated iron building for Balmoral from E. T. Bellhouse & Co., to serve as a temporary ballroom and dining room.

When the Luftwaffe began bombing Moscow, Pasternak immediately began to serve as a fire warden on the roof of the writer's building on Lavrushinski Street.

Curry had decided for himself that Carson City would someday serve as the capital city and left a plot open in the center of town for a future capitol building.

The Irish Free State government took over the two wings of the building to serve as a temporary home for some ministries, while the central building became the College of Technology until 1989.

* serve as a process of social grooming, building a sense of community with shared interests, information, and values ;

Using a glass wall for the entrance, similar in appearance to his Louvre pyramid, Pei coated the exterior of the main building in white metal, and placed a large cylinder on a narrow perch to serve as a performance space.

The building was intended to serve as the Methodist Church ’ s social reform presence of the Hill.

Currently services are held in B ' nai B ' rith House, East St Kilda. The refurbishment and partial reconstruction of a building in Caulfield to serve as the first Conservative Synagogue building in Australia is advanced, completion being anticipated during 2010.

The original Kantei served from 1929 until 2002, when a new building was inaugurated to serve as the current Kantei.

According to Erik Sakkov, board member of Tallinn Airport, the future plans include expanding the runway by 600 – 700 metres to serve regular long-haul flights, also building of a brand-new taxiway, new storage facilities, a new point-to-point terminal and expansion of the existing passenger terminal, so it can serve arriving and departing passengers on two different levels.

Clay's plan for distributing among the states the proceeds from the sale of lands in the public domain was intended to serve the nation by providing the states with funds for building roads and canals, which would stimulate growth and knit the sections together.

They moved the building to their resort to serve as a library and art gallery.

Plumbing is usually distinguished from water supply and sewage systems, in that a plumbing system serves one building, while water and sewage systems serve a group of buildings or a city.

Sixtus had, however, no appreciation of antiquities, which were employed as raw material to serve his urbanistic and Christianising programs: Trajan's Column and the Column of Marcus Aurelius ( at the time misidentified as the Column of Antoninus Pius ) were made to serve as pedestals for the statues of SS Peter and Paul ; the Minerva of the Capitol was converted into an emblem of Christian Rome ; the Septizonium of Septimius Severus was demolished for its building materials.

In castles and monasteries, the living and working areas were separated ; the kitchen was sometimes moved to a separate building, and thus could not serve anymore to heat the living rooms.

Although the building of the railroads lessened the importance of the river somewhat, the lower river ( navigable as far as East Brady, Pennsylvania through locks ) has continued to serve as route of commercial transportation until the present day.

Autonomous communities are composed of provinces ( provincias ), which serve as the territorial building blocks for the former.