Lyell's geological interests ranged from volcanoes and geological dynamics through stratigraphy, paleontology, and glaciology to topics that would now be classified as prehistoric archaeology and paleoanthropology.

Back at Harvard, Wiener became influenced by Edward Vermilye Huntington, whose mathematical interests ranged from axiomatic foundations to engineering problems.

However there were still powerful interests ranged against it.

The historians ' assessments have ranged from condemnation for allowing Adolf Hitler's Germany to grow too strong, to the judgement that he had no alternative and acted in Britain's best interests.

Kramp studied medicine and graduated, however, his interests certainly ranged outside medicine for, in addition to a number of medical publications, he published a work on crystallography in 1793.

His business interests ranged from accounting, finance and banking, insurance, public transportation, mass media, technology, land development to public utilities and he assumed various positions as auditor with KPMG Peat Marwick, Executive Director and General Manager of Tai Fung Bank, Chairman of the Macau Urban Transport Company Ltd ( Transmac ), Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Macau International Airport Company ( CAM ), Vice-Chairman of the General Assembly of Air Macau, Chairman of the Board of the MASC Ogden Aviation Services, Vice-President of the Board of Directors of Teledifusão de Macau ( Macau Television ) among others.

Over the years his investment interests ranged also into the fields of aerospace, electronics, high temperature physics, composite materials, optics, lasers, data processing, thermionics, instrumentation and nuclear power.

The scope of his interests was diverse, and ranged from a lecture titled, " The Heat of the Sun in South Africa ", in which he pointed out that it must be possible to transform solar energy into mechanical power, to aeronautics, where he was involved in the development of the first aircraft.

Retail stores would be opened by Chinese entrepreneurs, whose business interests ranged from cement mixing to money exchanging.

Fiodar Fiodaraŭ, (< font lang =" by "> Фёдар Іванавіч Фёдараў </ font >, < font lang =" ru "> Фёдор Иванович Фёдоров </ font >, Fedor Ivanovich Fedorov ), ( June 19, 1911-October 13, 1994 ) was a famous Belarusian physicist, whose scientific interests ranged from optics and spectroscopy to the theory of elementary particles.

His interests ranged from 10th century manuscripts to the etymology of contemporary comic strip names.

Simpson's intellectual interests ranged from archaeology to an almost taboo subject at the time: hermaphroditism.

He was a man of many interests that ranged from books to collecting art to golf.

An associate of the Bourbaki group and at one time a colleague of Alexander Grothendieck, his interests have ranged over algebraic geometry, representation theory, mathematical physics, and category theory.

His only son, Isaac Gulliver died unmarried, but his daughters married into the Fryer family whose interests and wealth ranged from the Newfoundland fisheries to banking .. His descendants include ; Sir Frederick Fryer ; Lt Gen Sir John Fryer ; the banker Edward Castleman, owner of Chettle House ; Captain Thomas Hanham ( responsible for the first legal cremation in England-3 / 10 / 1882 ) and the artist Rodney Fryer Russell ( who lived at Manston House, site of the first cremation and whose grandparents lived at Kinson House ).

His interests ranged from vernacular architecture to Japanese toilets and sandal design.

From this point one can recognize the emergence of what many have called Hays's " dual personality ," in which he became a wealthy lawyer who represented the interests of power and fame ( his more prominent clients ranged from Wall Street brokers and best-selling authors to notorious gamblers and the Dionne quintuplets )-- while at the same time vigorously defending the individual liberty of victims of discriminatory laws.

His scientific interests ranged from the universal systems theory to the possibility of human rejuvenation through blood transfusion.

His interests ranged from criticism of American and European writers, to biography and even artistic criticism.

His research interests have ranged widely, including African-American family structure, personality, color perception, and mathematical models for reconstructing mitochondrial lineages.

His interests ranged across the burning issues of the day.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

But although in many of these discussions Othon and Amadee might have been tempted to consider their own interests as well as those of the king, Edward's confidence in them was so absolute that they were made the acknowledged leaders of the embassy.

The vast industrial interests caught up in the Selden suit, as well as the complex character of the automotive art, encouraged both sides to exploit `` every possible chance '' for or against the patent, said Parker.

These men -- for the most part educated in our `` best '' New England colleges, well established financially and socially in the community -- under kindly but insistent probing, reveal little or no objective or explicit criteria or data for their generalizations about the interests and attitudes of the people they claim to serve, or about the public responses that actually follow their occasional breach of a `` client-service relationship ''.

While Poirot is usually paid handsomely by clients who request his help, he is known to also take on cases that may not pay well simply because the mystery interests him.

Typical subjects include mining, raising and droving cattle, sheep shearing, wanderings, war stories, the 1891 Australian shearers ' strike, class conflicts between the landless working class and the squatters ( landowners ), and outlaws such as Ned Kelly, as well as love interests and more modern fare such as trucking.

The 1960 Cypriot Constitution provided for a presidential system of government with independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches, as well as a complex system of checks and balances including a weighted power-sharing ratio designed to protect the interests of the Turkish Cypriots.

National conservatism is a political term used primarily in Europe to describe a variant of conservatism which concentrates more on national interests than standard conservatism as well as upholding cultural and ethnic identity, while not being outspokenly nationalist or supporting a far-right approach.

Concern over the interests of consumers has also spawned much activism, as well as incorporation of consumer education into school curricula.

Another of his personal interests was dry-fly fishing, and he practiced amateur boxing as well.

The Foreign Legion now had a new role as a rapid intervention force to preserve French interests not only in its former African colonies but in other nations as well ; it was also a return to its roots of being a unit always ready to be sent to hot-spots all around the world.

Some resources of economic interests include gemstones, metals, and many minerals such as asbestos, perlite, mica, phosphates, zeolites, clay, pumice, quartz, and silica, as well as elements such as sulfur, chlorine, and helium.

The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering is a 2000 book by Norman G. Finkelstein that argues that the American Jewish establishment exploits the memory of the Nazi Holocaust for political and financial gain, as well as to further the interests of Israel.

Its major interests include 15 daily and 38 weekly newspapers, and more than 300 magazines around the world, including Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Elle and O, The Oprah Magazine ; 29 television stations through Hearst Television Inc. which reach a combined 18 % of U. S. viewers ; ownership in leading cable networks, including A + E Networks, and ESPN Inc .; as well as business publishing, Internet businesses, television production, newspaper features distribution and real estate.

Australia – Japan relations have elements of tension as well as acknowledged mutuality of strong interests, beliefs and friendship.

These include a number of Jardines ’ long-standing businesses such as Jardine Engineering Corporation ( JEC ), Jardine Shipping Services, Jardine Aviation Services, Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals, Jardine Schindler and Gammon Construction as well as more contemporary interests that reflect the demands of Asian consumers ; among them Pizza Hut restaurants in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Vietnam and Jardine OneSolution IT services.

JC & C has an interest of just over 50 % in Astra, a listed Indonesian conglomerate and the largest independent automotive group in Southeast Asia, as well as other motor interests in the region.

To balance the interests of North and South, he wanted to acquire the Oregon Country ( present-day Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia ) as well.

Put another way, the control that one class exercises over the means of production includes not only the production of food or manufactured goods ; it includes the production of ideas as well ( this provides one possible explanation for why members of a subordinate class may hold ideas contrary to their own interests ).

Other focuses include international differences in reporting, as well as bias in reporting of particular issues such as economic class or environmental interests.

In 1998, the U. S. Defence Secretary, William Cohen, said that Morocco and the U. S. have " mutual concerns over transnational terrorism " as well as interests in " the effort to control the spread of weapons of mass destruction ".

As well as its downstream interests, Mobil was active in the North Sea and operated an oil refinery in Coryton ( opened in 1953 ), on the Thames estuary.

The US was worried about the poverty and political instability of Nicaragua, as well as the rival strategic and economic interests of the British government, which controlled both British Honduras ( later Belize ) and the Mosquito Coast.

Because most candidates are predicted to achieve top grades at A level, interviews are usually used to check whether the course is well suited to the applicant's interests and aptitudes, and to look for evidence of self-motivation, independent thinking, academic potential and ability to learn through the tutorial system.