Bows could be kept and ready to shoot for some time with little effort, allowing crossbowmen to aim better.

Instead, early 21st century papers on Chinese history tend to be empirical studies of a small part of China which aim to reach a deep understanding of the socio-economics, political dynamics, or cultural dynamics of a small region such as a province or a village with little effort made to create a master narrative which would be generalizable to all of China.

The play will begin with the snap of the ball ( typically but not exclusively to the quarterback ), and it will end when the effort by the offensive squad to advance the ball has either succeeded in scoring, or has been frustrated by the ball being downed before the aim of the offensive play is accomplished, or by the defensive squad having managed to come into possession of the ball without first downing it.

Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project, a joint effort of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Arizona began work at the site in 2004, with the aim of continuing the topographical survey begun in 1996 and carrying out a full topographical and architectural analysis not only of the altar and temenos, but of the nearby valley where the Lykaian Games were held.

The 1660s saw the final collapse of Magdeburg's aim, to which von Guericke had devoted some twenty years of diplomatic effort, of achieving the status of a Free City within the Holy Roman Empire.

He informed the French ambassador Colbert de Croissy that to his regret he had to terminate the English war effort and told the Dutch via the Spanish consul in London, the Marquess del Fresno, that, his main war aim, to install his noble nephew as stadtholder, having been attained, there was no longer any objection on his side to concluding a lasting peace between the two Protestant brother nations, if only some minor " indemnities " could be paid.

The Bulletin contributors believed the atom bomb would only be the first of many dangerous presents from “ Pandora's box of modern science .” The aim of the Bulletin was to carry out the long, sustained effort of educating man about the realities of the scientific age.

Ingle's approach, as described in his own words, reflects the early inspiration of the magic realism movement as described by Roh ; that is, the aim is not to add magical elements to a realistic painting, but to pursue a radically faithful rendering of reality ; the " magic " effect on the viewer comes from the intensity of that effort: " I don't want to make arbitrary changes in what I see to paint the picture, I want to paint what is given.

Chuck Jones used Santayana's description of fanaticism as " redoubling your effort after you've forgotten your aim " to describe his cartoons starring Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner.

Alexander Seversky, a veteran Russian pilot who had bombed German ships in the Great War, joined the effort, suggesting the bombers aim near the ships so that expanding water pressure from the underwater blasts would stave in and separate hull plates.

Philosopher George Santayana defines fanaticism as " redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim "; according to Winston Churchill, " A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject ".

During Joseph Stalin ’ s reign it was most important to use socialist Realism as a form of propaganda in posters, as it kept people optimistic and encourage greater productive effort, a necessity in his aim of developing Russia into an industrialised nation.

The Western Allies attempted to convince the Germans that their main effort during 1943 would be to land the Twelfth Army in Greece and then advance into the eastern Balkans during the early part of the summer of 1943 with the aim of bringing Turkey into the war and then linking up with the Soviet Red Army.

The aim had been to create study bedrooms with individuality, a sense of light and space and overall the effort to foster community sense by grouping the rooms into small units of hexagonal shape onto individual landings.

It does require more effort on the part of users because they have to aim at least somewhat in the correct direction.

She was instrumental in setting up the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service Committee, an organisation funded by the women's suffrage movement with the express aim of providing all female staffed relief hospitals for the Allied war effort.

The aim was to reduce the amount of duplicated effort required from hardware manufacturers and their software partners, and from the SCADA and other HMI producers in order to interface the two.

SFD is a public education effort with the aim of increasing awareness of Free Software and its virtues, and encouraging its use.

Seigō also wanted to prevent any further sacrifices by the Japanese people towards the war effort, and pressured the government to halt what he considered to be the overly-ambitious aim of conquering all of Asia.

Louis XIV and his military advisors designed a campaign of violent reprisals in an effort to influence public opinion, with the aim of pressuring enemy officials to surrender.

The group meets every Tuesday at 6. 30pm and Saturday morning at 10am in Tuthills car-park in the village with the aim to generate awareness, co-operation and enthusiasm amongst the people of Clondalkin in a concerted effort to enhance the natural, historic and built environment of the village.

The main aim of the Norwegian effort in Eastern Norway was to give the Allies enough time to recapture Trondheim, and start a counter-offensive against the German main force in the Oslo area.

4: Shaping viable and desirable futures for a Muslim civilization must involve the active participation of communities and conscious effort at consultation ( shura ) at all levels of society with the aim of achieving a broad consensus ( ijma ).

These are languages that are created by an intentional intellectual effort, usually with the aim of facilitating interlinguistic communication, but there are also interlanguages that have arisen spontaneously.

Her first entirely self-produced effort, 1977's New Harvest ... First Gathering, highlighted Parton's pop sensibilities, both in terms of choice of songs-the album contained covers of the pop and R & B classics " My Girl " and " Higher and Higher " – and the album's production.

The album was a commercial disappointment compared to the band's previous effort, charting generally low at # 5.

In 1973, after a series of delays, Queen released their eponymous debut album, an effort influenced by the heavy metal and progressive rock of the day.

Among the tracks, the band were most impressed by Orbit's effort and enlisted him to replace Street as producer for their next album, citing a need to approach the recording process from a fresh perspective.

Prior to the disbanding of The Revolution, Prince was working on two separate projects, The Revolution album Dream Factory and a solo effort, Camille.

Following the failed effort to record a new studio album, the Police effectively disbanded.

Despite the resulting poor production, the album was a well-received effort that was credited for blending elements of thrash and speed metal.

The last track on the album, " Mannen i den vita hatten ( 16 år senare )" ( The Man in the White Hat ( 16 Years Later )) was very well received and is seen by many fans as Kent's best effort.

Skyclad began as a thrash metal band but added violins from session musician Mike Evans on several tracks from their debut album, The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth, an effort described by Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic as " ambitious " and " groundbreaking.

Rolling Stone, a magazine known for its initial dismissal of the band's music, held a favorable opinion of the album, regarding the release as the group's best effort to date.

When the album itself was rejected by Reprise, the song " Sail On, Sailor " ( a collaborative, Brian Wilson-led effort dating from 1971 ) was inserted at the instigation of Van Dyke Parks and released as the lead single ; it promptly garnered a considerable amount of FM radio play, became a minor chart hit, and entered the band's live sets as a concert staple.

The collaborative effort stems from Jean's latest album: Toussaint St. Jean: From the Hut, To the Projects, To the Mansion.

The next album, Bananarama ( UK No. 16, US No. 30 ) ( 1984 ) was a more socially conscious effort.

The pair again worked together in the studio on the 1988 Page solo effort, Outrider, and in the same year Page contributed to Plant's album Now and Zen.

Page and Plant recorded their only post-Zeppelin album of original material on the 1998 album, Walking into Clarksdale, an effort that was unsuccessful commercially, leading Plant to return to his solo career.

" The magazine also referred to the album as " not a true success ", but a " noble effort ".

Faith No More displayed an even more experimental effort on their next album, Angel Dust.

Her latest studio album, Human ( 2008 ), was her first effort to be released on the Epic label after a label change in 2005.

She is currently preparing to release her second album, which she describes as " an independent effort ".

Along with the Banshees, early Cure gigs from 1978-1979 supporting post-punk bands such as Wire and Joy Division also influenced Robert Smith's shift in musical direction from The Cure's 1979 album Three Imaginary Boys to 1980's sophomore effort Seventeen Seconds.

Susan Sulley said that the rejection of Secrets was " the lowest the band had been since 1992 and after putting in so much time and effort in to an album that then failed, nearly causing them to call it a day.

The entire album was remastered and Townsend began remixing the band's original 1976 four-track pre-production demos and portions of the album's original 24-track masters for the bonus disc, in an effort to give listeners a new a unique way of hearing some of the album's tracks.