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I started looking on the splintery truck bed for a piece of board, a dirt clod -- anything I could throw and with better aim than I had thrown the beer bottle.
Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.
Accordingly, it is the aim of this essay to advance a new theory of imitation ( which I shall call mimesis in order to distinguish it from earlier theories of imitation ) and a new theory of invention ( which I shall call symbol for reasons to be stated hereafter ).
Against Seebohm formidable foes have taken the field, notably F. W. Maitland, whose Domesday Book And Beyond was written expressly for this purpose, and Sir Paul Vinogradoff whose The Growth Of The Manor had a similar aim.
I aim to keep a little whisky still back in the ridge for my pleasure ''.
One man dropped to his knee for better aim.
Nature's aim, different from ours, is to provide for the coming generation.
The aim is to collect a very broad range of physical, chemical, morphological, and structural data for crystals on an encyclopedic scale and to seek all possible useful and revealing correlations of properties with internal structure.
The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).
Many bacteria, however, possess mechanisms ( such as siderophores ) for scavenging iron within environmental niches in the human body, and experimental developments of iron chelators, therefore, aim to reduce iron availability specifically to bacterial pathogens.
Its aim was to enable people to write all the African languages for practical and scientific purposes without diacritics.
The Trust was funded by a gift of $ 10 million ( a then unprecedented sum: at the time, total government assistance to all four Scottish universities was about £ 50, 000 a year ) and its aim was to improve and extend the opportunities for scientific research in the Scottish universities and to enable the deserving and qualified youth of Scotland to attend a university.
In fact, Fitzmyer believes that the preface of Luke should only be “ the starting point in the discussion of the aim of Luke-Acts .” Because the author ’ s intended purpose for the Book of Acts is not that straightforward, scholars have put forth four main claims to address this.
As early as 880, Arnulf had designs on Great Moravia, and had the Frankish bishop Wiching of Nitra interfere with the missionary activities of Methodius, with the aim of preventing any potential for creating a unified Moravian nation.
Norman Steenrod characterized Lefschetz ' impact as editor as follows :" The importance to American mathematicians of a first-class journal is that it sets high standards for them to aim at.
Managers aim to capture the inefficiencies arising from the heavy participation of non-economic investors ( i. e., high income " buy and hold " investors seeking tax-exempt income ) as well as the " crossover buying " arising from corporations ' or individuals ' changing income tax situations ( i. e., insurers switching their munis for corporates after a large loss as they can capture a higher after-tax yield by offsetting the taxable corporate income with underwriting losses ).
When, during his discourses, he recounts his experiences as a young aspirant, he regularly uses the phrase " When I was an unenlightened bodhisatta ..." The term therefore connotes a being who is " bound for enlightenment ", in other words, a person whose aim is to become fully enlightened.
In 1989, the Basel Convention was opened for signature with the aim of preventing the export of hazardous waste from wealthy to developing nations for disposal.
Brabham was confident he could do better than Cooper, and in late 1959 he asked Tauranac to come to the UK and work with him, initially producing upgrade kits for Sunbeam Rapier and Triumph Herald road cars at his car dealership, Jack Brabham Motors, but with the long-term aim of designing racing cars.
The report assumed that the maintenance of full employment would be the aim of postwar governments, which would provide the basis for the welfare state.
Governing or administering agencies may for example codify rules into laws, police citizens and visitors to ensure that they comply with those laws, and implement other policies and practices that legislators or administrators have prescribed with the aim of discouraging or preventing crime.

aim and film
The ultimate aim of any 1st AD is to ensure the film comes in on schedule while maintaining a working environment in which the Director, principal artists ( Actors ) and crew can be focused on their work.
Social centers are often a combination of many things that happen in one space with the aim of creating a space for people to meet in a non-commercial setting, whether it be for a party, political workshop, to see a film, have a drink or have breakfast.
Maslin agreed ; she said that while it " takes aim at targets that are none too fresh ", and that the theme of nonconformity did not surprise, the film had its own " corrosive novelty ".
Andrzej Żuławski had always wanted to film his granduncle's masterwork and saw the offer as a unique opportunity to achieve that aim.
These products aim to solve specific needs of the film post production industry.
" Blaustein said his aim with the film was to promote a " strong United Nations.
The film also takes aim at television and the damage it was doing to movie attendance in the 1950s.
The aim of the program was to find a new star, skilled in acting and martial arts, to become Chan's " successor ", the champion being awarded the lead role in a film.
On the DVD, Boyle explains that, with the aim of preserving the suspension of disbelief, relatively unknown actors were cast in the film.
Autodesk software enabled Avatar director James Cameron to aim a camera at actors wearing motion-capture suits in a studio and see them as characters in the fictional world of Pandora in the film.
The Swedish National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images, in Swedish Statens ljud-och bildarkiv, SLBA, was founded in 1979 ( originally having the name Arkivet för ljud och bild, ALB ) with the aim of collecting and preserving all film and recorded sound produced in Sweden, including radio and television programs.
The Monty Python film The Life of Brian has a well-known joke in which various Judean groups, indistinguishable to an outsider, are more concerned with in-fighting than with their nominal aim of opposing Roman rule.
The aim of the program was to find a new star, skilled in acting and martial arts, to become Chan's " successor ", the champion being awarded the lead role in a film.
To this end, Collins and some financial backers established a company called High Definition Films Limited in 1951, the stated aim of which was to improve the telerecording process ( by which television programmes were recorded onto film for repeat broadcasts, sales or posterity ), but which in reality functioned as an official group to lobby for competition in television broadcasting.
The aim was that all amateur filmmakers would be eligible to take part in a short film competition, giving them the chance to present their work in public.
Lasseter's aim was to finish the short film for SIGGRAPH, an annual computer technology exhibition attended by thousands of industry professionals.
" The Rocky Mountain News highlighted the film as a " Critics ' Choice ", and wrote that " Steve Martin takes gentle but funny aim at Hollywood " in the film.
Riggs defended Tongues Untied for its ability to “ shatter this nation's brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference .” He explained that the widespread attack on PBS and the National Endowment for the Arts by moral critics in response to the film was predictable, since “ any public institution caught deviating from their puritanical morality is inexorably blasted as contributing to the nation's social decay .” In his defense, Riggs claimed that “ implicit in the much overworked rhetoric about ' community standards ' is the assumption of only one central community ( patriarchal, heterosexual and usually white ) and only one overarching cultural standard ( ditto ) to which television programming must necessarily appeal .” Riggs stated that ironically, the censorship campaign against Tongues Untied actually brought more publicity to the film than it would have otherwise received and thus allowed it to achieve its initial aim of challenging societal standards regarding depictions of race and sexuality.
* Festival de Cine y Video de Santa Fe de Antioquia: is a festival that has been taking place since March 2000 by the Film and Video Corporation of de Santa Fe de Antioquia and is directed by film maker Víctor Gaviria with the stated aim of promoting film making and audience forming on the Antioquia region, although film makers from all over the country can participate
In its own words, the aim of the UKFC was :" To stimulate a competitive, successful and vibrant UK film industry and culture, and to promote the widest possible enjoyment and understanding of cinema throughout the nations and regions of the UK.

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