To summarize, every established national group used cultural productions to assert and strengthen a sense of national unity and destiny ; less politically consolidated groups, especially those pursuing the goal of nationhood, used them in the same ways, though often with a note of determination that makes them easier to see from our contemporary point of reference.

In pursuing this goal, the Speaker may use his or her power to determine when each bill reaches the floor.

One should try understand supreme person through worship ( Bhakti yoga ) or meditation ( Raja Yoga ), or by performing one's duties well ( Karma Yoga ) or pursuing the intellectual path ( Jnana Yoga ) is the goal of ( Devotees ) or ( Personalist ).

By 2003, the U. S. was keen to invade Iraq and secure the goal some argued it had ultimately been pursuing all along – the toppling of Saddam Hussein.

However, for many organizations and non-profit businesses, making money is a necessary condition for pursuing the goal.

The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education ( CIESE ), part of the Schaefer School, provides expertise to improve K-12 science, mathematics, engineering, and technology education, with the goal to increase the number of students pursuing STEM majors and careers in technological fields.

He also blanched at Comecon's goal of turning Romania into the " breadbasket " of the East Bloc, pursuing a program of the development of heavy industry.

This should be contrasted with Hakluyt's goal of inspiring and interesting the nation in pursuing the project of exploration.

McEnroe met Smyth while pursuing his post-tour goal of becoming a rock star.

" For scientists across the nation and the world who, like ourselves, are actively pursuing fundamental science under extreme conditions and the goal of laboratory fusion ignition, this is a remarkable and exciting achievement.

Poland added the condition that the new state must be also federated with Poland, pursuing Józef Piłsudski's goal of creating the Międzymorze Federation.

The IWW pioneered creative tactics, and organized along the lines of industrial unionism rather than craft unionism ; in fact, they went even further, pursuing the goal of " One Big Union " and the abolition of the wage system.

After the release of ACT-R 4. 0, John Anderson became more and more interested in the underlying neural plausibility of his life-time theory, and began to use brain imaging techniques pursuing his own goal of understanding the computational underpinnings of human mind.

However, it might well be the case that Moscow sought to avoid a great war in Europe because it was not strong enough to fight an offensive, but there was much disagreement over the policy between Litvinov and Molotov as to how to attain the goal, and Stalin balanced between their positions, starting pursuing both contradictory lines simultaneously quite early and abandoned collective security only at some point in 1939.

In February 2009 it was reported that a group known as the 219 Association was pursuing the goal of urging several states to transform Route 219 into a 1, 500-mile-long divided highway which the group hoped would be referred to as Continental 1.

Lewis also declined head coaching positions in the college ranks with the University of California, Berkeley and Michigan State University to continue pursuing his goal of becoming a head coach in the NFL.

# Persistence: Someone becomes more prone to work through setbacks if pursuing a goal.

In pursuing the goal of establishing intelligent design at the expense of evolution in public school science, intelligent design groups have threatened and isolated high school science teachers, school board members and parents who opposed their efforts.

In pursuit of this goal, The Ashbrook Center established an Ashbrook Scholars program, which provides scholarships to students at Ashland University who are interested in pursuing a classical liberal arts curriculum.

They soon came to the realization that they could be successful as duo music writers and producers for others as well, and began pursuing that goal.

Today, ESC is pursuing a major initiative to standardize and upgrade C2ISR capabilities at Air Operations Centers, with the goal of realizing the Aerospace Operations Center of the future.

This incident serves to underscore the Pak Protectors ' inherent xenophobia and utter ruthlessness in pursuing their ultimate goal of protecting their descendants.

He was prevented from pursuing that goal further by a failure to obtain a firman, or permission to excavate.

The ad then shows one person having reached their goal and pursuing a career based on their ambitions, whilst the other person explains how they thought would never get into trouble for carrying or using a knife.

Instead of pursuing unilateral prerogatives, Brazilian foreign policy has tended to emphasize regional integration, first through the Southern Cone Common Market ( Mercosul ) and now the Union of South American Nations.

El Salvador also is a member of the World Trade Organization and is pursuing regional free trade agreements.

Lim had said Malaysia must play a proactive role in pursuing regional initiatives to bring about a change in Burma and support efforts to bring the situation in Burma to the UN Security Council's attention.

" We will maintain peace on the Korean Peninsula by effectively working with allies and other regional states to deter and defend against provocation from North Korea, which is actively pursuing a nuclear weapons program.

Within the last half century, the University of North Alabama has developed into a comprehensive regional university exerting a major influence over the cultural, social and economic life of Northwest Alabama and providing educational opportunities for students pursuing undergraduate and graduate majors offered through the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business, Education and Nursing and Health.

In August 2001, Egal survived by one vote a motion tabled by several regional MPs charging him of half-heartedly pursuing separatism.

Students on the Pasadena campus and many faculty members who were pursuing advanced degrees were transferred to the Big Sandy campus, which was in the midst of a construction boom to accommodate the influx of new personnel and to support the regional accreditation efforts.

With operations and investments in more than 10 countries, SingPost has been accelerating its regional and diversification efforts while pursuing excellence in its Singapore business.

The government elected in 2001 pledged to maintain the fundamental economic policy objectives adopted by its predecessor in 1997, specifically: retaining the Currency Board, implementing sound financial policies, accelerating privatisation, and pursuing structural reforms.

In an essay appearing in the 14 May 2007 issue of Newsweek, business columnist Robert J. Samuelson argued that China was pursuing an essentially mercantilist trade policy that threatened to undermine the post-World War II international economic structure.

The Sultanate's government has been pursuing economic diversification and privatisation policies for nearly a decade, having signed similar agreement with thirty of its other trading partners.

In pursuing these purposes, National Park Authorities also have a duty to foster the social and economic well-being of their local communities.

Iran is also pursuing a policy of stabilization and cooperation with the countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia, whereby it is seeking to capitalise on its central location to establish itself as the political and economic hub of the region.

It was an ideal time for pursuing the project because there was a real need for an airport to support the increased economic activity in the country, especially in the mining industry, at the same time, the Quezon government was encouraging infrastructure projects.

Additionally, many feminist economists propose utilizing non-traditional data collection strategies such as " utilizing growth accounting frameworks, conducting empirical tests of economic theories, developing country case studies, and pursuing research at the conceptual and empirical levels.

Boxer's failure to negoatiate with RTÉNL and the economic downturn in Ireland resulted in Boxer no longer holding interest in pursuing it's business in Ireland.

If people are given the economic security and leisure achievable in the context of a social credit dispensation, Douglas believed most would end their service to mammon and use their free time pursuing spiritual, intellectual, or cultural goals leading to self-development.

Many social institutions arose, Menger argued, not as " the result of socially teleological causes, but the unintended result of innumerable efforts of economic subjects pursuing ' individual ' interests.

" According to his obituary, Chen was one of the main designers of the economic policies of the 1961-1962 " capitalist road " era, when China's economic policy stressed material incentives and sought to encourage economic growth in preference to pursuing ideological goals.

" Non-Chinese scholars interpreted China's reluctance to consider evidence that contradicts its " official " history as the result of a desire to avoid exploring any issue that may lead to criticism of Mao Zedong or a re-evaluation of the Cultural Revolution in general, which may distract China from pursuing economic growth.

In New Zealand, as in Australia, it was the Labour Party that initially adopted " New Right " economic policies, while also pursuing social liberal stances such as decriminalisation of male homosexuality, pay equity for women and adopting a nuclear-free policy.

Nixon stated in a letter that he wrote to Congress for full support of this act " Our tactics for pursuing this objective are twofold: First, to accomplish much needed and long overdue reform of the manpower programs set up under the Manpower Development and Training Act and subsequent legislation and thus increase their effectiveness in enhancing the employability of jobless workers ; and, second, to move toward a broader national manpower policy which will be an important adjunct of economic policy in achieving our Nation's economic and social objectives ".

Despite suffering losses in the battles with rival states such as Wei, the Qin rulers were actively pursuing reforms to the legal, economic and social systems of Qin.

Similarly, in 1971 Hunter S. Thompson depicted in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey Into the Heart of the American Dream a dark view that appealed especially to drug users who emphatically were not pursuing a dream of economic achievement.

He helped craft the Millennium Challenge Act which expanded America ’ s commitment to invest in developing nations that are pursuing political and economic reforms.

Since the 1970s, economic planners had been pursuing an ambitious nuclear energy program.

In pursuing such a task, I have chosen to follow the broad path of our political, economic, and social development, rather than the narrower belletristic.

Bo promoted the notion of pursuing “ red GDP ”— an economic model embodying communist egalitarianism — and suggested that, if economic development were analogous to ' baking a cake ', then the primary task should be to divide the cake fairly rather than building a larger cake.