Plunder in itself was often the objective of a military campaign, to either pay mercenary forces, seize resources, reduce the fighting capacity of enemy forces, or as a calculated insult to the enemy ruler.

It became clear, as the profits and losses of the piracy campaign were calculated, that the venture had not been as profitable as hoped.

Suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt calculated that the campaign for women's right to vote had involved 56 referendum campaigns directed at male voters, plus 480 campaigns to get Legislatures to submit suffrage amendments to voters, 47 campaigns to get constitutional conventions to write woman suffrage into state constitutions ; 277 campaigns to get State party conventions to include woman suffrage planks, 30 campaigns to get presidential party campaigns to include woman suffrage planks in party platforms and 19 campaigns with 19 successive Congresses.

Jack Valenti, who served as a special assistant to Johnson, later suggested that pulling the ad was a calculated move, arguing that " it showed a certain gallantry on the part of the Johnson campaign to withdraw the commercial.

The " El Tren Eléctrico " song by Juan Luis Dammert and the imaginary launch campaign denominated " Lima 2427 " ( calculated finishing year given the progress rate the project had thus far ), launched by artist Camila Bustamante.

Cost Per Acquisition ( CPA ) is calculated as: ad campaign cost / of impressions x CTR x CR.

* Cost per conversion Describes the cost of acquiring a customer, typically calculated by dividing the total cost of an ad campaign by the number of conversions.

As the parallel through the river-mouth also crossed the coast of " Celtica ", the distance due north from Marseilles to Celtica was 3700 stadia, a baseline from which Pytheas seems to have calculated latitude and distance.

As a result of this subtle calculated asymmetry, viewing from the north and the south presents a complex multi-axial shape, while the western facade, facing the Kremlin, appears properly symmetrical and monolithic.

The DuPage County Division of Transportation calculated that congestion had decreased on Illinois 53 by 20 %, and the volume of cars on nearby north – south roads Illinois 53, Illinois 59 and Illinois 83 had decreased.

In 1969 a Canadian team calculated that its northernmost tip lies 750 metres ( 2, 450 ft ) farther north than Cape Morris Jesup, thus claiming its record as the most northerly point on land.

In the week preceding capture, Massawa harbour was thoroughly wrecked by Italian sabotage of machinery in shore facilities, the sinking of two large floating dry docks, and the calculated scuttling of sixteen large ships in the mouths of the north Naval Harbour, the central Commercial Harbour and the main South Harbour, blocking access in and out.

Bonetti ordered the sinking of two large floating dry docks and supervised the calculated scuttling of eighteen large commercial ships in the mouths of the north Naval Harbor, the central Commercial Harbor and the main South Harbor, blocking navigation in and out.

Nørresundbys population is statistical a part of Aalborgs combined population ( 21376 plus 103545 ), but is calculated separately to determine how many of Aalborgs population live to the north or south of the Limfjord.

The flow on the River Churn was 1. 7 million gallons ( 7. 7 Megalitres ( Ml )) per day, whereas the calculated flow at the start of the project had been more than ten times this value.

Colonel Leavenworth of the 3d Infantry, with four companies of his regiment will ascend the Missouri and when he reaches a point on its left band near the mouth of Little Platte River and within a range of twenty miles above or below its confluence, he will select such position as in his judgment is best calculated for the site of a permanent cantonment.

In 2006 it was calculated that the cotton industry consumed 87 % of the agricultural water taken from the Gwydir River.

The length calculated from most commonly used starting point of canoe trips, bridge of highway 389 over Pékans River ( at

As of January 2010, 9 small scale floods and 2 large scale floods hit the Vaal River area in South Africa, due to unusually large amounts of rain were recorded from 2010 until the present. Vanderbijlpark is the second worst affected area after neighbouring Vereenigeng. As of February 2012, 37 000 people in total have been killed in Vanderbijlpark, total damage cost calculated at R919, 000, 000 ($ 114, 890, 098 ), and 109 left homeless. At the height of the flooding so far, in 2011, water levels have reached 32 feet above normal levels ( January 29th 2011 )

It would be literary license calculated to glamorize life to say that he, oh, dropped his napkin, so startled was he by Mary Jane's beauty.

The last column shows the rate of exchange that would have been observed at a relative intensity of 4 ( 14.7 cm. distance ) calculated on the assumptions that the incident light intensity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance of the lamp from the cell and that the rate is directly proportional to the incident light intensity.

At the end of the calculated time he'd nose the Waco down through the cloud bank and hope to break through where some feature of the winter landscape would be recognizable.

I have calculated that if I could snap my fingers in one magic gesture to release the power of all the hydrogen in my body, I would explode with the force of a hundred bombs of the kind that fell on Hiroshima.

Then I calculated that a million peas would just about fill a household refrigerator ; ;

Depending on the distance Van Helden assumes Aristarchus used for the distance to the Moon, his calculated distance to the Sun would fall between 380 and 1, 520 Earth radii.

The Duke had assured the Dutch that if the French were to launch an offensive he would return in good time, but Marlborough calculated that as he marched south, the French commander would be drawn after him.

In " The Secret Revealed ," a super-computer constructed by Lex Luthor calculated Superman's true identity from various information that had been assembled by his staff, but Lex dismissed the idea because he could not believe that someone so powerful would want another, weaker identity.

This is because damages in tort put her in the position she would have been in had the tort not taken place, and are calculated as her money back (£ 750 ) less the value of what she actually got (£ 50 ).

This means that at − 500 Earth's faster rotation would cause a total solar eclipse to occur 70 ° to the east of its location calculated using the uniform TT.

But Fermi also participated in preliminary work on the hydrogen bomb at Los Alamos as a consultant, and along with Stanislaw Ulam, calculated that the amount of tritium needed for Edward Teller's model of a thermonuclear weapon would be prohibitive, and a fusion reaction could not be assured to propagate even with this large quantity of tritium.

Lenin calculated that the Bolsheviks could perhaps hold central parts of Russia but would have to give up some territories on its periphery, including Finland in the less important north-western corner.

Eiffel had calculated that this would be satisfactory until they approached halfway to the first level: accordingly work was stopped for the purpose of erecting a wooden supporting scaffold.

For example a group at MIT concluded that the planet Mesklin in Hal Clement's 1953 novel Mission of Gravity would have had a sharp edge at the equator, and a Florida high-school class calculated that in Larry Niven's 1970 novel Ringworld the topsoil would have slid into the seas in a few thousand years.

From the start, he seems to have calculated that he would have to operate without aid from Hispania.

As Polybius recounts, " he calculated that, if he passed the camp and made a descent into the district beyond, Flaminius ( partly for fear of popular reproach and partly of personal irritation ) would be unable to endure watching passively the devastation of the country but would spontaneously follow him.

His estimated net worth, if calculated as a fraction of the U. S. gross domestic product at the time, would have been equivalent to $ 110. 1 billion in 2006 U. S. dollars, making him the fourth richest person in American history .< ref name = forbes >

In an appendix, Kepler also discussed the recent chronology work of the Polish historian Laurentius Suslyga ; he calculated that, if Suslyga was correct that accepted timelines were four years behind, then the Star of Bethlehem — analogous to the present new star — would have coincided with the first great conjunction of the earlier 800-year cycle.

If Rømer had known the diameter of the Earth's orbit, he would have calculated a speed of 227, 000, 000 m / s.

The speed calculated for electromagnetic waves, which could be predicted from experiments on charges and currents ,< ref group =" note "> The quantity we would now call, with units of velocity, was directly measured before Maxwell's equations, in an 1855 experiment by Wilhelm Eduard Weber and Rudolf Kohlrausch.

Estimates of the amount of effort required to build Maeshowe vary ; a commonly suggested number is 39, 000 man-hours, although Colin Renfrew calculated that at least 100, 000 hours would be required.

For example, an increase in frequency results in an increase in the maximum kinetic energy calculated for an electron upon liberation – ultraviolet radiation would require a higher applied stopping potential to stop current in a phototube than blue light.