Most manufacturers also seem to be concentrating on formulating fire-resistant or self-extinguishing grades of urethane foam that are aimed specifically at the burgeoning building markets.

The program was also a part of a general policy of forced draft urbanization, which aimed to destroy the ability of peasants to support themselves in the countryside, forcing them to flee to the U. S. dominated cities, depriving the guerrillas of their rural support base.

While a throwing stick can also be shaped overall like a returning boomerang, it is designed to travel as straight as possible so that it can be aimed and thrown with great force to bring down game.

The longest standing group for lesbian and gay Christians in the UK, founded in 1976, is the non-denominational Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement ; specifically aimed to meet the needs of lesbian and gay evangelicals, there is the Evangelical Fellowship for Lesbian and Gay Christians ; specifically working within the Church of England is Changing Attitude, which also takes an international focus in working for gay, lesbian, bisexual & transgender affirmation within the Anglican Communion.

Finally, the Institute also organizes a number of summer schools, conferences, workshops, public lectures, and outreach activities aimed primarily at junior mathematicians ( from the high school to postdoctoral level ).

It was initially aimed at developing capabilities similar to Intuit, Inc .' s Quicken application, but also has features for small business accounting.

The export textile manufacturing industry all but wiped out small, Honduran manufacturers, and food processors, whose goods were historically aimed at the domestic market, were also adversely affected.

Members of " The Mountain " ( French: La Montagne ) sided with the Parisian militants, also known as the sans-culottes, who aimed for a more repressive form of government that would institute a price maximum on essential consumer goods and would punish all traitors and enemies of the Republic.

* boys ' love ( boizu rabu or BL ), predominately aimed at the shōjo and josei markets ( also see below )

Yaoi also extends beyond the hentai genre, since it applies to any anime / manga material that includes male homosexuality, except for that actually aimed at a gay male audience.

Many foreign fighters and former Ba ' ath Party officials have also joined the insurgency, which is mainly aimed at attacking American forces and Iraqis who work with them.

Biofeedback, a relaxation technique aimed at helping people control functions of the autonomous nervous system, has shown some benefit in controlling pain associated with IC / BPS as part of a multimodal approach that may also include medication or hydrodistention of the bladder.

There are also a number of Islamic ex-gay ( i. e. people claiming to have experienced a basic change in sexual orientation from exclusive homosexuality to exclusive heterosexuality ) groups aimed at attempting to guide homosexuals towards heterosexuality.

He also pioneered a series of community development programs aimed at spreading diverse cottage industries and increasing efficiency into rural India.

It is also the national headquarters of FOCUS North America, a missions group aimed at helping other national Orthodox charities and providing assistance to those in need.

As its unofficial librarian, Cassiodorus not only collected as many manuscripts as he could, he also wrote treatises aimed at instructing his monks in the proper uses of reading and methods for copying texts accurately.

Methods of genetic engineering aimed at improving the meat production qualities of animals are now also becoming available.

The Japanese use different kanji for two closely allied meanings of " seinen "— for " youth, young man " and for " adult, majority "— the second referring to sexually overt manga aimed at grown men and also called seijin (" adult " ) manga.

Despite the title of his book, he also considered macrobiotics a science aimed at prolonging and perfecting life.

The book also claimed that the Munich agreement was a " secret agreement " between Germany and " the west " and a " highly important phase in their policy aimed at goading the Hitlerite aggressors against the Soviet Union.

Gorbachev also aimed to seek detente with the West and end the Cold War that was no longer economically sustainable to be pursued by the Soviet Union.

Less radical protests are also discussed, such as the various movements aimed at putting an end to sweatshop labour.

It also provided English-language news programs aimed at foreign residents in Beijing.

Mills also had a hand in IPC's line of Horror comics aimed at girls such as Chiller.

By the conditions accepted in the treaty, the Avars were to take possession of Pannonia and the Lombards were promised military support in Italy should the need arise ; also, for a period of 200 years the Lombards were to maintain the right to reclaim their former territories if the plan to conquer Italy failed, thus leaving Alboin with an alternative open.

He also reports that an army of ten million soldiers crossed the ocean to conquer Hyperborea, but abandoned this proposal when they realized that the Hyperboreans were the luckiest people on earth.

The subsequent Slave dynasty of Delhi managed to conquer large areas of northern India, approximately equal in extent to the ancient Gupta Empire, while the Khilji dynasty was also able to conquer most of central India, but were ultimately unsuccessful in conquering and uniting the subcontinent.

The Teutonic Order's attempts to conquer Orthodox Russia ( particularly the Republics of Pskov and Novgorod ), an enterprise endorsed by Pope Gregory IX, can also be considered as a part of the Northern Crusades.

) In order to consolidate this claim, he would launch a campaign to conquer also Rome, the western capital of the former Roman Empire.

He also destroyed his own citadel at A ' zaz to prevent it from being used by the Ayyubids if they were to conquer it.

It represents a period of time in which imperialism, or the desire to conquer, grew to prominence, in the city states of the Middle East, but also throughout Eurasia, with Indo-European expansion to Anatolia, Europe and Central Asia.

In this passage, he also records what is known as " the Psalm of Nephi ", where he pleads for the Lord to forgive his weaknesses, make him strong so he can conquer his enemies, and redeem his soul.

This brought the Polans into Germany's sphere of influence and into conflict with Otto I's Kingdom of Germany, who also desired to conquer the Polbian Slavs.

* Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde conquers parts the Jalayirid Empire in western Persia, causing a rift between himself and Timur of the Timurid Empire, who had also wanted to conquer Persia.

A rift forms between Sultan Bayezid and Timur of the Timurid Empire, who also wanted to conquer Syria.

Yet that passiveness also testified to the fact that they had no desire to conquer British territory, but only to preserve their ability to rule in their own territory.

He also had the head of the Colossus of Nero adjacent to the Colosseum replaced with his own portrait, gave it a club and placed a bronze lion at its feet to make it look like Hercules, and added an inscription boasting of being " the only left-handed fighter to conquer twelve times one thousand men ".

The bull also conferred exclusive trading rights to the Portuguese between Morocco and the Indies with the rights to conquer and convert the inhabitants.

It would have been had he not also sought military glory and crossed the Euphrates in an attempt to conquer Parthia.

At the same time, many thoughtful hippies distanced themselves from the very idea that the way a person dresses could be a reliable signal of who he was — especially after outright criminals such as Charles Manson began to adopt superficial hippie characteristics, and also after plainclothes policemen started to " dress like hippies " in order to divide and conquer legitimate members of the counter-culture.

Polish historian Oskar Halecki and others noted, that Sobieski also planned to conquer Prussia with Swedish troops and French support.

* In book two of The Strongbow Saga, the Vikings invade and conquer Ruda, also known as Rouen, and make it their base in Frankia.

That attracted the pragmatic Romans to conquer their country, whose river valleys were also a natural way for strategic communications between the Adriatic and Pannonia.

He also mentioned their spirit of independence, saying that even though they had nothing of value, they would deeply resent any attempt to conquer them.

It has also been suggested that the Vikings did not conquer Frisia, but settled in certain parts ( such as the island of Wieringen ), where they built simple forts and cooperated and traded with the native Frisians.

The Malaccans reported that Vietnam was in control of Champa and also sought to conquer Malacca, but the Malaccans did not fight back, because they did not want to fight against another state that was a tributary to China without permission from the Chinese.

In a speech they proposed an alliance between Rome and Capua, noting how the Campani with their famous wealth could be of aid to the Romans, pointing out that nothing in Rome's treaty with the Samnites prevented them from also making a treaty with the Campani, and warning that if they did not, the Samnites would conquer Campania and its strength would be added to the Samnites ' instead of to the Romans '.