The damage caused by Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia in 1864 was limited to a swath, but neither Lincoln nor his commanders saw destruction as the main goal, but rather defeat of the Confederate armies.

Even though scientific research is not their main goal, many amateur astronomers make a contribution to astronomy by monitoring variable stars, tracking asteroids and discovering transient objects, such as comets.

Scientific research is most often not the main goal for many amateur astronomers, unlike professional astronomy.

Absalon's main political goal was to free Denmark from entanglements with the Holy Roman Empire.

In reality, this goal was divided into three main efforts — to prepare for future invasion, to seek revenge against Persia, and to organize a means of dividing spoils of war.

When the trade association began, it had seven members and its main goal was to eliminate all duties and restrictions on the majority of their trade within 12 years.

( Chapter 1 is the first of three important moments in Joshua marked with major speeches and reflections by the main characters ; here first God and then Joshua make speeches about the goal of conquest of the Promised Land ; at chapter 12, Joshua looks back on the conquest ; and at chapter 23 Joshua gives a speech about what must be done if Israel is to live in peace in the land ).

This commercial route was the main goal of Danish invaders in France.

The main goal of the game is to rescue Bub and Bob's girlfriends from big wind-up toasters, among other enemies.

Greek trade networks spread throughout the Mediterranean region, while Roman trade expanded with the main goal of directing tribute from the colonized areas towards the Roman metropole.

He argues that both promiscuity and sexual abstinence are unnatural, and that the main goal of human sexuality is procreation.

The study of these complex linkages is the main goal of complex systems theory.

Venter writes that his main goal was always to accelerate science and thereby discovery, and he only sought help from the corporate world when he couldn't find funding in the public sector.

Conciliation differs from mediation in that the main goal is to conciliate, most of the time by seeking concessions.

Providing isolation is the main goal of concurrency control.

Providing isolation is the main goal of concurrency control.

Dylan's main design goal is to be a dynamic language well-suited for developing commercial software.

In his first works Husserl tries to combine mathematics, psychology and philosophy with a main goal to provide a sound foundation for mathematics.

The main goal is the creation of jobs by creating incentives for private investments.

The FBI's main goal is to protect and defend the United States, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners.

Nationalism had become a " civic religion " among the Finns by the end of the 19th century, but their main goal, particularly during the first period of Russification and the general strike in 1905, was a return to the autonomy of 1809-1898, not independence.

In domestic policy the main goal of the Vaasa Senate was to return the right to power in Finland.

The Greens founded the first international chapter of a German political party in the U. S. on April 13, 2008 at the Goethe-Institut in Washington D. C. Its main goal is " to provide a platform for politically active and green-oriented German citizens, in and beyond Washington D. C., to discuss and actively participate in German Green politics.

She says their main goal was rent seeking, that is, to shift money to the membership at the expense of the entire economy.

While " glasnost " is associated with freedom of speech, the main goal of this policy was to make the country's management transparent and open to debate, thus circumventing the narrow circle of apparatchiks who previously exercised complete control of the economy.

) After leaving New York City, it is the main north – south street of western Yonkers, New York through Sleepy Hollow ( known as ether North or South Broadway in most sections ), before becoming Albany Post Road ( and Highland Avenue ) at the northern border of Sleepy Hollow, New York.

It is known that Olympia originally housed far more of these statues, but time brought ruin to many of them, leaving Delphi as the main site of athletic statues.

The main three are Type I, removal of the clitoral hood, almost invariably accompanied by removal of the clitoris itself ( clitoridectomy ); Type II, removal of the clitoris and inner labia ; and Type III ( infibulation ), removal of all or part of the inner and outer labia, and usually the clitoris, and the fusion of the wound, leaving a small hole for the passage of urine and menstrual blood — the fused wound is opened for intercourse and childbirth.

Still another approach to editing the strips involves removing Garfield and other main characters from the originals completely, leaving Jon talking to himself.

The ACE used dedicated video memory of 2 KB, leaving the 1 KB main memory free for user programming.

: Radioactive or toxic chemical sites associated with its former defense industries and test ranges are found throughout the country and pose health risks for humans and animals ; industrial pollution is severe in some cities ; because the two main rivers which flowed into the Aral Sea have been diverted for irrigation, it is drying up and leaving behind a harmful layer of chemical pesticides and natural salts ; these substances are then picked up by the wind and blown into noxious dust storms ; pollution in the Caspian Sea ; soil pollution from overuse of agricultural chemicals and salination from poor infrastructure and wasteful irrigation practices

Around 1200 the port became the main point of departure for colonists leaving for the Baltic territories conquered by the Livonian Order and, later, Teutonic Order.

The kings, even strong-willed men like Dagobert II and Chilperic II, were not the main agents of political conflicts, leaving this role to their mayors of the palace, who increasingly substituted their own interest for their king's.

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 deprived North Korea of its main source of economic aid, leaving China as the isolated regime's only major ally.

The main function of this plough is to loosen and aerate the soils while leaving crop residue at the top of the soil.

A recent phenomenon is that of conservative-minded groups in the PC ( USA ) ( such as the Confessing church movement ) remaining in the main body, rather than leaving to form new, break-away groups, as those most theologically conservative usually did ( e. g., the Presbyterian Church in America, the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, and the Bible Presbyterian Church ).

He composed the main story and drafted the concepts for the sub-scenarios, leaving them to be completed by his peers.

In some cities such as Miami and San Francisco, the main city is much smaller than the surrounding suburban areas, leaving the city proper with a small portion of the metro area's population and land area.

In 1982 in Honduras, a group of nine Salvadorans and Nicaraguans destroyed a main electrical power station, leaving Tegucigalpa, the capital city, for three days without power.

Kambei is forced to send reinforcements, leaving the main post undermanned when the bandit chief leads a charge against this position.

The story follows the main events of Scrooge's life between 1877 and 1947, including almost all references found in Carl Barks stories about Scrooge's life until 1947 but leaving some room for Rosa and other creators to add more details later.

The British with the thinnest of margins rescued its main army from Dunkirk ( as well as many French soldiers ), leaving their all their equipment and war supplies behind.

After leaving the main sequence, Vega will become a class-M red giant and shed much of its mass, finally becoming a white dwarf.

When Prince Alexander died on 28 January 1284, leaving only the king's granddaughter Margaret living out of his descendants, Alexander III summoned all thirteen Earls of Scotland, twenty-four barons and the heads of the three main Gaelic kindreds of the West, Alexander of Argyll, Aonghas Mór of Islay and Alan MacRuari of Garmoran.

There are four main antagonists: Desann, a former Jedi who killed a fellow student before leaving the Jedi Order ; Tavion, Desann's apprentice ; Galak Fyyar, one of the leaders of the Imperial Remnant ; and Reelo Baruk, a crime lord posing as a " respectable garbage collector " on Nar Shaddaa.

The Marquess of Newcastle was forced to divide his army, leaving a detachment under Sir John Belasyse to watch the Parliamentarians under Lord Fairfax in Hull, while he led his main body north to confront Leven.

Intuitively, the divergence ( denoted ∇•) of a vector field is a measure of flux diverging radially outwards from a point, so the negative is the amount piling up at a point, hence the rate of change of density in a region of space must be the amount of flux leaving or collecting in some region ( see main article for details ).

Those among the tribe who once were members of Creek bands did not wish to move west to where they were certain that they would meet death for leaving the main band of Creek Indians.

However, after the two main employers, Pertusola Sud and Montedison, collapsed by the late 1980s, Crotone was in economic crisis, with many residents losing their jobs and leaving to find work elsewhere.

The main export goods leaving the country through Callao are oil, steel, silver, zinc, cotton, sugar and coffee.