These were largely qualitative experiments in which selected participants sought to identify a concealed target image, or to provide accurate information about the history of a target object.

They have therefore sought to identify the kind of tax system that would minimize this distortion.

Williams made three additional speeches in which he sought to identify himself with the aims of the Black Power movement.

He sought to identify himself with the warlike reigns of Ardashir ( r. 226 – 41 ) and Shapur ( r. 241 – 72 ), the same Shapur who had sacked Roman Antioch and captured Emperor Valerian.

Synesthesia was a prized experience ; poets sought to identify and confound the separate senses of scent, sound, and colour.

He sought to identify ancient trackways in the British landscape.

The project helped Barthes identify what it was he sought in literature: an openness for interpretation.

and early twentieth centuries, librarians through actions of the American Library Association and its division devoted to public libraries, the Public Library Association, sought ways to identify standards and guidelines to ensure quality service.

Some historians identify the growing trend towards narrow specialization in political history during recent decades: " while a college professor in the 1940s sought to identify himself as a " historian ", by the 1950s " American historian " was the designation.

" He sought to teach missionaries dispatched by the Church not to impose their own cultural values and to identify themselves instead as guests of the host country.

However, most investigators have sought to identify the opening of the vomeronasal organ in humans, rather than identify the tubular epithelial structure itself.

Godkin, a classical liberal, sought to establish what one sympathetic commentator later characterized as " an organ of opinion characterized in its utterance by breadth and deliberation, an organ which should identify itself with causes, an which should give its support to parties primarily as representative of these causes.

Scholars have sought to identify the biblical Hivites with

Some Jewish commentators identify Hagar with Keturah, the woman Abraham married after the death of Sarah, stating that Abraham sought her out after Sarah's death.

The report sought to identify the politicians, institutions and commentators who the authors felt had tried to take Britain into the European single currency and claims to expose the " often unscrupulous and vicious personal attacks " carried out by the Euro supporters.

Integrated control sought to identify the best mix of chemical and biological controls for a given insect pest.

He sought to identify and conciliate rising national élites in politics and communication.

D claimed damages, and sought documents from the NSPCC to identify who had made the allegation.

His interest in the stability of tri-valent carbon free-radical compounds brought him to publish the first of many publications in which he sought to identify the steric and electronic factors responsible for the dissociation of hexa-substituted ethane derivatives.

This is also described as protein folding directed within funnel-like energy landscapes Some computational approaches to protein structure prediction have sought to identify and simulate the mechanism of protein folding.

Nineteenth century, modern, and Arabic scholars have sought to identify the " land of Cush " with Hindu Kush, and Gihon with Amu Darya ( Jihon / Jayhon of the Islamic texts ).

of Defense summer study conference called TEOTA (" The Eyes of the Army "), which sought to identify new techniques useful for military reconnaissance and technical gathering of intelligence.

These were the ones Keith sought out -- the loners, the ones who killed for the joy of it, like himself.

He shunned publicity for himself and sought to avoid fame.

Ebby Thacher, Wilson's former drinking buddy and a Grouper who followed the evangelical bent and sought out other alcoholics, presented himself to Wilson telling him he had " got religion " and was sober, and that Wilson could do the same if he set aside objections to religion and formed, instead, a personal idea of God, " another power " or " higher power ".

The ambitious Ibn Habib, a member of the illustrious Fihrid family, had long sought to carve out Ifriqiya as a private dominion for himself.

Both sought refuge in Persia, whence Abdur Rahman placed himself under Russian protection at Samarkand.

During the 1950s, however, Graham began distancing himself from the older fundamentalism and, in preparation for his 1957 New York Crusade, he sought broad ecumenical sponsorship.

An opinion on the matter was sought from the most esteemed ministers of the area and Cotton Mather took credit for their response when anonymously celebrating himself years later: " drawn up at their desire, by Cotton Mather the younger, as I have been informed.

Religious, military, and cultural propaganda fostered a cult of personality, and by nominating himself perpetual censor, he sought to control public and private morals.

By nominating himself perpetual censor, he sought to control public and private morals.

However, feeling that the lack of sympathy which prevailed at Leuven at that time was actually a form of mental persecution, he sought refuge in Basel, where under the shelter of Swiss hospitality he could express himself freely.

Then Fabius quickly sought to calm the Roman people by asserting himself as a strong Dictator at the moment of what was perceived to be the worst crisis in Roman history.

Kosiński himself addressed these claims in the introduction to the 1976 reissue of The Painted Bird, saying that " Well-intentioned writers critics, and readers sought facts to back up their claims that the novel was autobiographical.

While the latter attacked him and sought ecclesiastical censure, he recommended himself to the former by his criticism of the worldly possessions of the clergy.

Ranjit Deo's grandnephew, Gulab Singh, subsequently sought service at the court of Ranjit Singh, distinguished himself in later campaigns, especially the annexation of the Kashmir valley, and, for his services, was appointed governor of Jammu in 1820.

Despite his youth, Osman II soon sought to assert himself as a ruler, and after securing the empire's eastern border by signing a peace treaty ( treaty of Serav ) with Safavid Iran, he personally led the Ottoman invasion of Poland during the Moldavian Magnate Wars.

He attended to Nobunaga as he sought a moment of peace to carry out his last act, then Ranmaru likewise killed himself in the same way.

Realizing he was unable to subdue the Assassins, he sought to align himself with them, consequently depriving the Crusaders of aligning themselves against him.

His pride is considered a reason why he would not bow to God as all other angels did, but sought to rule heaven himself.

The staunchly Catholic King Philip II of Spain sought to model himself after King Solomon.

Philip identified the warrior-king David with his own father Charles V, and himself sought to emulate the thoughtful and logical character which he perceived in Solomon.

In a letter, published after the election, Grant sought to unequivocally distance himself from General Orders No. 11: " Grant's self-serving explanation ", notes Jonathan Sarna, " did not actually bear close scrutiny ," but Jews nonetheless generously accepted his attempt at self-extrication: " I have no prejudice against sect or race, but want each individual to be judged by his own merit.

At the election, the papal legates present observed the appearance of neutrality, and Gregory himself sought to maintain this attitude during the following years.

Towards the end of 984, Henry II sought to form alliances between himself and other important figure in the Ottonian world, chief among them being his cousin King Lothar of France.

Otto II sought continued peace between himself and the descendants of his uncle Henry I, Duke of Bavaria.