Lincoln learned from his chief of staff General Henry Halleck, a student of the European strategist Jomini, of the critical need to control strategic points, such as the Mississippi River ; he also knew well the importance of Vicksburg and understood the necessity of defeating the enemy's army, rather than simply capturing territory.

22: 39 – 40 ) to love your secular lord as you would love the Lord Christ himself underscores the importance that Alfred placed upon lordship, which he understood as a sacred bond instituted by God for the governance of man.

Nevertheless, the growing Roman Republic soon understood the importance of Mediterranean control in the outcome of the conflict.

Galen may have understood the importance of artificial ventilation, because in one of his experiments he used bellows to inflate the lungs of a dead animal.

" For the next several decades, Davis claimed she was fired, and although Cukor never understood why she placed so much importance on an incident he considered so minor, he never worked with her again.

In this way, Kelsen contends, the bindingness of legal norms, their specifically ' legal ' character, can be understood without tracing it ultimately to some suprahuman source such as God, personified Nature or — of great importance in his time — a personified State or Nation.

The relative importance of these factors is different in each region, and is not well understood.

For example, the importance of storytelling, or acting as a singer, can be understood better if we examine the whole belief system.

Robert J. Dostal understood the importance of Husserl to be profound:

Fossil collecting was in vogue in the late 18th and early 19th century, at first as a pastime, but gradually transforming into a science as the importance of fossils to geology and biology was understood.

Although she is considered to have been intellectually inferior to both Joseph and Leopold, Maria Theresa understood the importance of her public persona and was able to simultaneously evoke both esteem and affection from her subjects.

That so wonderful a rod should bear external signs of its importance is easily understood.

The Danes, however, understood its importance and soon it was found as graffiti all around the country.

In the same web-article, Alterman also noticed, analyzing the game Count Bruehl – Philidor, F, 0 – 1, London 1783, that Philidor understood very well modern concepts like: power of passed pawns ; bad and good pieces ; space advantage ; open files ; pawn structure ; importance of center.

Alfred Terry had previously commanded troops during the Second Battle of Charleston Harbor and understood the importance of coordinating with the Union Navy.

Once understood, the conservation of mass was of great importance in changing alchemy to modern chemistry.

This can be qualitatively understood as asserting the importance of the encountered potential difference instead of the absolute potential difference.

* A desire to impress a judge, an examiner, an audience, or a readership, or to win an argument, through name-dropping of esoteric and poorly understood terms in an attempt to inflate trivial ideas to something of importance.

As the reproductive process became better understood, ancient Chinese society moved towards a patriarchal system and Fu Xi assumed primary importance.

However, although it is understood that the basic principles of learning assert the importance of attending to students ’ prior knowledge, fostering conceptual understanding, and cultivating metacognitive awareness, students must also become engaged and be willing to tolerate and cognitively work through the intellectual ambiguity often associated with exposure to novel information and tasks.

He gradually understood the importance historical events had upon determining personal ideology, but he would not allow it to constrain his political options, and he did not want them to limit the options of those with whom he was negotiating.

Havelock argues that the fixed expressions Parry identifies can be understood as mnemonic aids used to help the poet remember the poetry, which was indeed vital to the well-being of the society, given the importance of the information carried by the poetry.

The artist well understood the importance of the painting.

The adept ruler also understood the importance of strictness over benevolence.

The importance of white's underpromotions can be understood by considering what happens if he promotes to a queen no matter what black plays: after 1 ... exf4 or 1 ... exd4 2. f8Q is stalemate, while following 1 ... Kf6 2. f8Q Kxg6 there is no mate.

The djed, a type of pillar, was usually understood as the backbone of Osiris, and, at the same time, as the Nile, the backbone of Egypt.

This interpretation of poorly understood Mycenaean material is disputed, since Hermes Trismegistus is not referenced in any of the copious sources before he emerges in Hellenistic Egypt.

As this was going Hushim the son of Dan who was hard of hearing did not understood what was going on, and why his grand father is not being buried, so he asked for an explanation, after being given one he gets mad and says :" Is my grandfather to lie there in contempt until Naphtali returns from the land of Egypt?

From the inscription of Adule, it is understood that the Cyclades, which are presumed to include Paros, were subjected to the Ptolemies, the Hellenistic dynasty ( 305-30 BC ) that ruled Egypt.

* The book is briefly mentioned in The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel ( 1532 – 34 ) by François Rabelais: " Far otherwise did heretofore the sages of Egypt, when they wrote by letters, which they called hieroglyphics, which none understood who were not skilled in the virtue, property, and nature of the things represented by them.

He crossed the sea on Michaelmas Day 1322 ; had traversed by way of Turkey ( Asia Minor ), Armenia the Little ( Cilicia ) and the Great, Tartary, Persia, Syria, Arabia, Egypt upper and lower, Libya, great part of Ethiopia, Chaldea, Amazonia, India the Less, the Greater and the Middle, and many countries about India ; had often been to Jerusalem, and had written in Romance as more generally understood than Latin.

According to the Midrash, a few people made themselves deities: Pharaoh Kings of Egypt ( see Ezekiel 29: 3: " The Nile is mine and I have made myself ", understood by the Midrash as a claim that he created himself ); Hiram King of Tyre ( see Ezekiel 28: 2 ); Haman the Aggagite ( see Esther 3: 2 ).

The crossing of the Red Sea is the departure from Egypt according to Exodus 13: 18 and is understood to have taken place at the section of the Red Sea which lay south of the Pelusian arm ( known today as the Gulf of Suez ).

However, Nachal Mitzrayim in 1 Kings 8: 65, together with Nahar Mitzrayim in Genesis 15: 18 and Ye ' or Mitzrayim in Amos 8: 8, 9: 5 are all translated Potamos Aigyptou (" River of Egypt ") indicating that they were all understood to be the same.

The translation of I Chronicles 13: 5 speaks instead of orion Aigyptou (" border of Egypt ") which nevertheless confirms that the Shichor was understood to be identical to Nachal Mitzrayim and Nahar Miztrayim which are explicitly mentioned as the border with Egypt.

A surviving inscription Sayf al-Din Abdullah Barshambu erected in Old Dongola and bears the date of 1317, is commonly understood to be the record of a military expedition sent by the Sultan of Egypt to place his nominee Abdullah, perhaps a Muslim Nubian, on the throne.

As time went by, the Egyptians understood better what the Greeks wanted to hear, and the stories became ever more fanciful, and the priests ' list of famous Greeks having studied in Egypt became longer.

Egypt was fated to suffer affliction one hundred and fifty years-the two kings who preceded thee upon the throne understood this-thou hast not understood it ' Mycerinus, when this answer reached him, perceiving that his doom was fixed, had lamps prepared, which he lighted every day at eventime, and feasted and enjoyed himself unceasingly both day and night, moving about in the marsh-country and the woods, and visiting all the places he heard were agreeable sojourns.

Colonel Benjamin Ford wrote to Morgan from Wilmington that he understood a Mrs. Sanderson from Maryland had obtained permission from Smallwood to visit Philadelphia, and would return on May 26th, escorted by several officers from Maryland `` belonging to the new levies in the British service ''.

Some Conservative theologians, like Seymour Siegel have stressed that the word, " Conservative ," must be understood in the way it is used in the British political system: that the laws and traditions have to be conserved or preserved, with changes allowed only when there is an overriding reason — almost always, an overriding ethical reason — to do so.

Hayek saw the British philosophers Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, Josiah Tucker, Edmund Burke and William Paley as representative of a tradition that articulated beliefs in empiricism, the common law, and in traditions and institutions which had spontaneously evolved but were imperfectly understood.

Although it is the first of 20 British North America Acts, it is still the most famous of these and is understood to be the document of Canadian Confederation.

Punch historian M. H. Spielmann, who knew Tenniel, understood that the political clout contained in his Punch cartoons was capable of “ swaying parties and people, too … ( the cartoons ) exercised great influence ” on the ideas of popular reform skirting throughout the British public.

Early tributes as to what Tenniel in his role as a national observer meant to the British nation around the time of his death came in as high praise ; in 1914 New York Tribune journalist George W. Smalley referred to John Tenniel as “ one of the greatest intellectual forces of his time, ( who ) understood social laws and political energies .”

Ribbentrop ( and Hitler for that matter ) never understood that British foreign policy aimed at the appeasement of Germany, not an alliance.

Thus a cash dispenser ( British English ) as well as and automatic teller machine or ATM in ( American English ) while belonging to speakers of different dialect would be understood by both American and British dialect speakers.

The British monarch is understood to not be the Duke with regards to mainland Normandy described herein, by virtue of the Treaty of Paris of 1259, the surrender of French possessions in 1801, and the belief that the rights of succession to that title are subject to Salic Law which excludes inheritance through female heirs.

Non-RP Britons abroad may modify their pronunciation to something closer to Received Pronunciation in order to be understood better by people unfamiliar with the diversity of British accents.

This time, the text features the originally translated British English text with alterations to non-universally understood words such as gaol, tyre, saloon and spanner.

Lyndon B. Johnson had indeed asked Wilson for some British forces for Vietnam, and when it was later suggested to Powell that Washington understood that the public reaction to Powell's allegations had made Wilson realise he would not have favourable public opinion and so could not go through with it, Powell responded: " The greatest service I have performed for my country, if that is so ".

In the opinion of the 18th century British mathematician Charles Hutton, the expression of coefficients of a polynomial in terms of the roots ( not only for positive roots ) was first understood by the 17th century French mathematician Albert Girard ; Hutton writes:

Although the lyrics were not used in the film, British audiences of the time fully understood the subtextual humour of " Hitler Has Only Got One Ball " being sung by prisoners of war.

The name William Pratt may allude to horror actor Boris Karloff, whose birth name was William Henry Pratt, and can also be understood as the British slang term " prat ", describing a person of arrogant stupidity.

Few Māori had good understanding of either sovereignty or " governorship ", as understood by 19th century Europeans, and so some academics, such as Moana Jackson, question whether Māori fully understood that they were ceding sovereignty to the British Crown.

LaSalle understood the meaning of the crossing paths of French and Spanish exploration from opposite directions, and outlined the main lines of future French strategy in North America ; he recognized the Mississippi as the key to control of the vast continental heartland, and the Ohio River became the line beyond which they would attempt to bar British expansion from the east.

Koch says that the older view that the battle cut the two British areas off from each other is now " generally understood " to be outdated, as Æthelfrith died soon after, and there is " almost no archaeological evidence for Anglo-Saxon settlement within the pagan period in Cheshire or Lancashire ", and in any case the sea would have been the primary means of communication.

Both France and Britain understood this victory to restore British control of the high seas.

This article outlines the differences between Malaysian English or more popularly Manglish, the form of street Malaysian English spoken by most Malaysians and British or the Queen's English, which for the purposes of this article is assumed to be the form of English spoken in south east England, used by the British Government and the BBC and widely understood in other parts of the United Kingdom.

For instance, both lift / elevator and lorry / truck are understood, although the British form is preferred.

For instance, both " lift / elevator " and " lorry / truck " are understood, although the British form is preferred.