Friends, a picture magazine distributed by Chevrolet dealers, describes a paramilitary organization of employees of the Gulf Telephone Company at Foley, Alabama.

The Latin term ultra vires describes activities of officials within an organization or polity that fall outside the constitutional or statutory authority of those officials.

Biodiversity ( an abbreviation of " biological diversity ") describes the diversity of life from genes to ecosystems and spans every level of biological organization.

The IMF describes itself as “ an organization of 188 countries ( as of April 2012 ), working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty .” The organization's stated objectives are to promote international economic cooperation, international trade, employment, and exchange rate stability, including by making financial resources available to member countries to meet balance of payments needs.

While Nomic is traditionally capitalized as the proper name of the game it describes, it has also sometimes been used in a more informal way as a lowercased generic term, nomic, referring to anything with Nomic-like characteristics, including games where the rules may be changed during play as well as non-gaming situations where it can be alleged that " rules lawyers " are tinkering with the process used to amend rules and policies ( in an organization or community ) in a manner akin to a game of Nomic.

Most influential was Book 6, which describes the military and political organization of Rome ; it presented Rome as a state in which monarchical, aristocratic, and popular elements were in a stable equilibrium.

The most commonly used definition is Max Weber's, which describes the state as a compulsory political organization with a centralized government that maintains a monopoly of the legitimate use of force within a certain territory.

: This article describes the Starfleet organization in the Star Trek universe ; for other uses see Starfleet ( disambiguation )

The organization describes itself currently as a clear voice for democracy and freedom around the world.

This describes the semantics of an organization and represents a series of assertions about its nature.

Specifically, it describes the things of significance to an organization ( entity classes ), about which it is inclined to collect information, and characteristics of ( attributes ) and associations between pairs of those things of significance ( relationships ).

In Thy Kingdom Come, Randall Balmer recounts comments that Paul M. Weyrich, who he describes as " one of the architects of the Religious Right in the late 1970s ", made at a conference, sponsored by a Religious Right organization, that they both attended in Washington in 1990:

A business model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value ( economic, social, or other forms of value ).

A step-by-step roadmap that describes the synergy and context between Revenue Model Innovation and alignment of business innovation into the organization.

The Institute for Historical Review ( IHR ), founded in 1978, is an American organization that describes itself as a " public-interest educational, research and publishing center dedicated to promoting greater public awareness of history.

The NCS model, for its part, describes the organization of the color sensations as perceived at the upper, brain level, and thus is much better fitted than RGB to deal with how humans experience and describe their color sensations ( hence the " natural " part of its name ); but it would be useless, for example, for describing the behavior of mixing lights and pigments.

The organization is widely seen as a satire that mocks organized religion, or as the church describes itself, " a cynisacreligion.

Roy also describes regional, ethnic and sectarian variations in mujahideen organization.

Unity describes itself as a worldwide Christian organization which teaches a positive approach to life, seeking to accept the good in all people and events, and as beginning as a healing ministry and healing has been its main emphasis for over 100 years.

The United Nations ( UN ) is an international organization that describes itself as a " global association of governments facilitating co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, and social equity "; It is the most prominent international institution.

ITIL describes procedures, tasks and checklists that are not organization-specific, used by an organization for establishing a minimum level of competency.

It describes itself as a nonpartisan group of " parents, educators, doctors and local agency members working together in a non-profit organization to better inform the community about children's needs.

The International du Coin de Terre et des Jardins Familiaux, a Luxembourg-based organization representing three million European allotment gardeners since 1926, describes the socio-cultural and economic functions of allotment gardens as follows:

It describes itself as an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.

Townsend describes very little in the way of social hierarchy or organization within this culture, though he does convey a definite sense of community.

In his article Observations on the marital metaphor of YHWH and Israel in its ancient Israelite context: general considerations and particular images in Hosea 1. 2, Ben Zvi describes the role of the Gomer in the marriage metaphor as one of the “ central attributes of the ideological image of a human marriage that was shared by the male authorship and the primary and intended male readership as building blocks for their imagining of the relationship .”

During the game, players describe their PC's intended actions, such as punching an opponent or picking a lock, and converse with the DM in character – who then describes the result or response.

As Harvard hypnotherapist Deirdre Barrett describes in the book “ Tales from a Hypnotherapist ’ s Couch ”, most modern research suggestions are designed to bring about immediate responses — an arm rises immediately, whereas hypnotheraputic suggestions are usually post-hypnotic ones that are intended to trigger responses affecting behavior for periods ranging from days to a lifetime in duration.

Maurice's History of Hindostan also describes aspects of Kashmir that were copied by Coleridge in preparation for hymns he intended to write.

The other players describe the intended actions of their characters, and the GM describes the outcomes.

Heinlein, who intended as a young man to become an astronomer, describes Max as a boy who can tell time by looking at the position of the stars in the sky, and who becomes an astrogator.

The manual describes various ways to make a CD play incorrectly, and is intended ultimately to destroy the CD.

The title is a fanciful term — not intended to be taken literally — that describes a fictional worst-case result of a nuclear meltdown, where reactor components melt through their containment structures and into the underlying earth, " all the way to China " ( see China Syndrome ).

A seated female figure, flanked by what Mellart describes as lionesses, was found in a grain-bin ; she may have intended to protect the harvest and grain.

Each one describes the universal law of morality somewhat differently, but they are merely intended to demonstrate different aspects of the one supreme and universal law.

In the foreword, Brittain describes how she originally intended to write of her experiences as a novel but was unable to achieve the objective distance from her subject necessary.

Efficiency in general describes the extent to which time or effort is well used for the intended task or purpose.

" Loss lead " describes the concept that an item is is intended to " lead " to the subsequent sale of other items, the sales of which will be made in greater numbers, or greater profits, or both.

During the " information era ", a workshop describes an office or conference room meeting intended to create or generate plans, analysis, or design to support organizational efforts.

The new wording describes the Irish nation as a community of individuals with a common identity rather than as a territory, and is intended to reassure unionists that a united Ireland will not come about without a majority of the Northern Ireland electorate declaring in favour of such a move.

The print version of the Urban Dictionary describes it as " an accidental or supposedly accidental failure of clothing to cover parts of the body intended to be covered, made famous by Justin Timberlake during a Super Bowl halftime when he tore off Janet Jackson's clothes ".

Schlick's book begins with a preface in three parts: the composer first thanks his patrons, then briefly discusses the nature of music, and finally describes the purpose of the Spiegel: it was not intended for organists and / or organ builders, as it may seem from the title, but for those church and monastery authorities who wanted to buy an organ, or had one entrusted to their care.

* L ' Astrologia Convinta di Falso col Mezzo di Nuove Esperienze e Ragioni Fisico-Astronomiche o sia la Caccia del Frugnuolo ( 1685 ), in which Montanari describes his and his colleagues ' random predictions intended to disprove astrology

The degree of self-efficacy describes whether a person is convinced that it is possible to convey the intended impression.

In this work, the hero, Gilgamesh, meets the immortal man, Utnapishtim, and the latter describes how the god, Ea, instructed him to build a huge vessel in anticipation of a deity-created flood that would destroy the world ; the vessel was not only intended for Utnapishtim, but was built to also protect his family, his friends and animals.

There are also many examples that are in keeping with what the Ancients and associated races intended – the writings on the stairs in the gate-room on Atlantis translate into a sort of greeting for travelers ; Puddle Jumper consoles include instructions on how to use the ship ; the Ancient wall in describes the use of the Ancient object hidden behind, and the responsibilities that go with it.

Given the lyrics of the song Dickson plays, which describes life at sea without women, it is more plausible that he intended a joke about the virtually all-male environment of the Black Maria.

* Laboratory Developed Test, assays developed in the laboratory for internal use, or research use only, and not intended for diagnostic or medical use, and therefore treated differently by regulatory agencies ; describes most current genetic testing

For example, one Slashdot article describes time sinks as " gameplay traps intended to waste your time and keep you playing longer ".