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whole and purpose
The whole purpose of Man's Hope is to portray the tragic dialectic between means and ends inherent in all organized political violence -- and even when such violence is a necessary and legitimate self-defense of liberty, justice and human dignity.
Although Pearson disbelieved almost everything Lizzie said, and read a sinister purpose into almost everything she did, he happily accepted her statement about Bridget as the whole truth.
Though the preface initially states Luke ’ s intentions for writing, by closely examining the contents of the work as a whole, scholars have surmised that Luke ’ s purpose is much more complex.
The primary purpose of this text is to refine the literary concept dhvani or poetic suggestion, by arguing for the existence of rasa-dhvani, primarily in forms of Sanskrit including a word, sentence or whole work " suggests " a real-world emotional state or bhāva, but thanks to aesthetic distance, the sensitive spectator relishes the rasa, the aesthetic flavor of tragedy, heroism or romance.
Differences under the Maliki school included the fact that those following the Maliki school could state their purpose ( or niat ) once only for compulsory fasting which is valid for the whole month of Ramadhan whilst for the Shafi ' i. e. school ( see below ), one would have to state his purpose every day of the month of Ramadhan for his fast to be valid the next day.
A " blockbuster " or " roller " is a large piece, almost always done in a block shaped style, done simply to cover a large area solidly with two contrasting colours, sometimes with the whole purpose of blocking other writers from painting on the same wall.
The whole purpose of this text is to prepare his students for contemplation and for a union with God.
The Maturidi school argued that evil arises from God but that evil in the end has a wiser purpose as a whole and for the future.
However, the whole of Lithuania was annexed by the Soviet Union on 3 August 1940 following a June ultimatum from the Soviets demanding, among other things, that unspecified numbers of Red Army soldiers be allowed to enter the country for the purpose of helping to form a more pro-Soviet government.
At his inauguration, O ' Dwyer celebrated to the song, " It's a Great Day for the Irish ," and addressed the 700 people gathered in Council Chambers at City Hall: " It is our high purpose to devote our whole time, our whole energy to do good work ..." He established the Office of City Construction Coordinator, appointing Robert Moses to the post, worked to have the permanent home of the United Nations located in Manhattan, presided over the first billion-dollar New York City budget, created a traffic department and raised the subway fare from five cents to ten cents.
Furthermore, the purpose of private cartels is to benefit only those individuals who constitute it, public cartels, in theory, work to pass on benefits to the populace as a whole.
The whole purpose and criteria of such definitions is to clarify and co-ordinate scholarship about a period, at times, across disciplines.
However, in common use these distinctions are not clearly made, and many of the varieties so classified and given below are also used as vegetables, with their beans in pods while young ; cooked in whole cuisines ; and sold for the purpose ; for example, black eyed beans, lima beans and Toor or pigeon peas are thus eaten as fresh green beans, or cooked as part of a meal.
" This perspective inspired the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union of 1834 which had the " two-fold purpose of syndicalist unions – the protection of the workers under the existing system and the formation of the nuclei of the future society " when the unions " take over the whole industry of the country.
A unity of purpose pervades the whole period, creation of a national culture based on the almost forgotten and certainly neglected past, as well as celebration of the Bonde Kultur or Norwegian farm culture.
But, for the most part, the book treats the purpose of Seldon's plan as unquestionable, and that slide as being necessary in it, rather than mulling over whether the slide is, on the whole, positive or negative.
In similar fashion, the isolation and examination of the stage image of Cleopatra becomes an attempt to improve the understanding of the theatrical power of her infinite variety and the cultural treatment of that power .” So, as a microcosm, Cleopatra can be understood within a postmodern context, as long as one understands that the purpose for the examination of this microcosm is to further one ’ s own interpretation of the work as a whole.
Then it is used as: General Strike of a city, i. e., " General Strike in Florence ", or a General Strike in a whole country or province, for the purpose of gaining political rights, i. e., the right to vote ; as in Belgium, or Sweden.
These are purpose built for multimedia companies by being provided extra height ceiling and under floor trunking ( some with raised floor ), fibre optic wiring, dual redundant power supply, uninterruptible power supply and back up generators for whole electricity load, which common practice in Malaysia is only to 30 % load.
Floggings of both male and female convicts were public, administered before the whole colony's company, assembled especially for the purpose.
It might seem that if the whole purpose of a maximum disruption round is to expand to a larger diameter, it would make more sense to start out with the desired diameter rather than relying on the somewhat inconsistent results of expansion upon impact.
" ( 2 Nephi 26: 27, 28 ) Christ says, in effect, that He has given all men the gift of His grace as the opportunity to access His power to cleanse them, heal them, and make them whole ( perfect ), but to access that power, the divine law of mercy requires that they come unto Him " with full purpose of heart " through faith and repentance ( 3 Nephi 18: 32 ).

whole and invasion
Despite issuing orders that the 60 million francs were to be spent on the construction of five new canals in France, Bonaparte spent the whole amount on his planned invasion of the United Kingdom.
When Franz Halder, the Chief of the Army General Staff, heard of the state of the Kriegsmarine, and its plan for the invasion, he noted in his diary, on 28 July 1940, " If that plan is true, all previous statements by the navy were so much rubbish and we can throw away the whole plan of invasion ".
As a result of the Turkish invasion in 1974, the whole of its Greek Cypriot population was forced to leave their homes and properties and flee to the areas under the control of the Republic of Cyprus.
Then in 1935, under the accord signed between He Yingqin, the commander of Kuomintang armies in Northern China, and Yoshijiro Umezu, the commander of Japanese troops in Northern China, elite Kuomintang troops related to the group Blue Shirts Society, core of Chiang ’ s Whampoa Clique, had to evacuate from Beijing and Northern China, which put the whole of Northern China under direct threat of Japanese invasion.
Gladstone's letters provoked sensitive reactions in the whole of Europe, and helped to cause the diplomatic isolation of the Kingdom prior to the invasion and annexation of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies by the Kingdom of Piedmont, with the following foundation of modern Italy.
In the second Persian invasion of Greece, each Persian ship had carried thirty extra marines, and this was probably also true in the first invasion when the whole invasion force was apparently carried in triremes.
At the time of the invasion German coastal defences were stretched thin as Hitler tried to defend the whole of Europe.
The Qin invasion of Han's Shangdang Commandery ushered in the bloodiest battle of the whole period, the Battle of Changping in 260 BC.
The three major tasks of the Confederate Navy during the whole of its existence were the protection of Southern harbors and coastlines from outside invasion, making the war costly for the United States by attacking U. S. merchant ships world-wide and breaking the Union Blockade by drawing off U. S. Navy ships in pursuit of the Confederate raiders.
De Valera saw the U. S. as a bulwark against invasion from any party, while the U. S. saw the support of Britain in the war as the priority, and so while supportive of Irish neutrality was sceptical of it extending over the whole island and wanted an arrangement to be made with the UK over ports, possibly through the leasing of them.
In 1940, he took the whole Kemeny family to the United States when Hungary's invasion by Nazi Germany became imminent.
En-route from St. Denis to take Mauritius from the French, the squadron encounters a large British force under the command of Admiral Bertie, who proceeds to steal Aubrey and Keating's thunder by taking command of the whole invasion force and claiming the honours.
The following day, 13 June, the whole of the Thames side as far up as London was in a panic – some spread the rumour that the Dutch were in the process of transporting a French army from Dunkirk for a full-scale invasionand many wealthy citizens fled the city, taking their most valuable possessions with them.
He took no action when Beck asked him to persuade the whole General Staff to resign if Hitler proceeded in his invasion of Czechoslovakia.
The Templars as a whole refused to support Amalric's invasion, and the king blamed them for the failure of the expedition.
He and his friends discover the orange alien, and a few minutes later a whole fleet of alien ships descends on the town and start what appears to be an invasion.
The intensity of the bombing campaign was reflected by the sharp increase in the number of strike and support sorties flown in Southeast Asia as a whole: from 4, 237 for all services, including the VNAF, during the month preceding the invasion, to 27, 745 flown in support of ARVN forces from the beginning of April to the end of June ( 20, 506 of them flown by the Air Force ).
Assembling the fragments of information into a coherent whole, Honor deduces Haven ’ s intentions and is left with no choice but to act firmly or stand aside while Haven moves into launch position for an invasion.
The Soviet invasion made all plans of the defence of the Romanian Bridgehead obsolete and the Polish commander of the defence of Lwów decided to withdraw all his units to the close perimeter and decided to defend only the city itself instead of screening the whole area.
It's worth to notice, that the whole conflict was seen as Polish-Czech issue rather than Polish-Slovak, with phrases like " Czech invasion " in common use.
The aim of the invasion was to raise the whole of western France in revolt, bring an end to the French Revolution and restore the French monarchy.

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