Generally, punitive damages, which are also termed exemplary damages in the United Kingdom, are not awarded in order to compensate the plaintiff, but in order to reform or deter the defendant and similar persons from pursuing a course of action such as that which damaged the plaintiff.

Over the course of seven years, the vegetative cover receded, and the animals opportunistically shifted from primarily consuming tufted deer to pursuing bamboo rats and other smaller prey.

Several reporters unwilling, or refusing the new course, like Peter himself, are forced to go away, finding a new safe haven in the Front Line, the only magazine willing to accept people fired by Bennett, pursuing a scorched earth policy over them.

While pursuing a course of study at Boston University ( including a class taught by Howard Thurman ), he experienced an intellectual and spiritual shift.

" In an article appearing in the January 2007 edition of Vanity Fair about neoconservatives who pushed for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Gaffney said of Bush, " He doesn't in fact seem to be a man of principle who's steadfastly pursuing what he thinks is the right course.

The exception, of course, is to push one into something they need to do for their own good, as in a visit to the hospital, or pursuing a dream one has suppressed.

In India, Bachelor of Education ( B. Ed ) is a course offered for those interested in pursuing career in teaching.

The result was an immediate attendance of thirty-five students, who showed their intention of pursuing a regular course of study by at once paying a tuition fee for instruction throughout the year.

Obermeyer was pursuing an advanced course in psychology at University College, London and one evening invited some of her friends and acquaintances to a party.

While it could have re-established an elementary BW program within weeks, ISG discovered no indications it was pursuing such a course.

When it comes time to move onto " concentrated studies " students have the option of pursuing any of the majors or minors offered by Western Washington University, but may also choose to shape their own interdisciplinary concentration or major, combining independent study, internships, and Western Washington University courses with Fairhaven courses to define their course of study.

Moran apologized for the remarks, saying that " I should not have singled out the Jewish community and regret giving any impression that its members are somehow responsible for the course of action being pursued by the administration, or are somehow behind an impending war ... What I was trying to say is that if more organizations in this country, including religious groups, were more outspoken against war, then I do not think we would be pursuing war as an option.

Following the battle the French abandoned the idea of seeking naval superiority for its own sake, adopting instead a continental strategy on land and pursuing a war against trade ( guerre de course ) at sea.

Students may opt for any of the science, arts or commerce streams when pursuing a three-year pre-university course.

During the late 17th century, critics pursuing a neo-classical standard would criticize William Shakespeare in favor of Ben Jonson precisely on the grounds that Shakespeare's characters change during the course of the play.

Over the course of the episode, it becomes apparent to the audience that Cole is himself a very powerful demon, pursuing Phoebe romantically and deceiving the sisters as to his true nature in order to finally kill them.

Of course, Atl is too intelligent a man to believe in such nonsense -- until the Federale who is pursuing him is mysteriously strangled to death.

At the beginning of the first book Jake stops to pick a hitchhiker ( the beautiful and mysterious Darla ), which is the beginning of a trend: over the course of the trilogy more and more people are riding with Jake while more and more people are also pursuing him.

This fact was the key to understanding why the private property, free market economy was notoriously unstable, pursuing a roller coaster course of exhilarating highs and terrifying descents into economic and financial collapse.

While pursuing this course, Bonnet kept uninformed not only his senior officials at the Quai d ' Orsay uninformed but also sometimes even Daladier himself.

Canada argued that rather than being soft on Communism, it was pursuing a strategy of " constructive engagement " whereby it sought to influence Communism through the course of its international relationships.

Everyday practices, which are common enough to be trivial, such as reaching an understanding with another, or contesting the reasons for pursuing a course of action, contain an implicit and idealized rationality.

In classical philosophical terms, it is very important to distinguish three domains of human activity: theoretical reason, which investigates the truth of contingent events as well as necessary truths ; practical reason which determines whether a prospective course of action is worth pursuing ; and productive or technical reason which attempts to find the best means for a given end.

Over the course of the play the many secrets that lie behind the Ekdals ' apparently happy home are revealed to Gregers, who insists on pursuing the absolute truth, or the " Summons of the Ideal ".

The cursus honorum ( Latin: " course of offices ") was the sequential order of public offices held by aspiring politicians in both the Roman Republic and the early Empire.

The latter course seems to have been seldom adopted ; the ordinary mode of inflicting the punishment was simply this: the censors in their new lists omitted the names of such senators as they wished to exclude, and in reading these new lists in public, quietly omitted the names of those who were no longer to be senators.

Safety is one of the most important elements of course design and actual play because most courses are in public parks: non-players are routinely found in the course environment.

As mouthpieces for contemporary issues, they " all seem to have had at least an elementary course in public speaking ".

His assessment was based on a large sample of glossolalia recorded in public and private Christian meetings in Italy, The Netherlands, Jamaica, Canada and the USA over the course of five years ; his wide range included the Puerto Ricans of the Bronx, the Snake Handlers of the Appalachians, and Russian Molokan in Los Angeles.

In 1983, Brundtland was invited by then United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar to establish and chair the World Commission on Environment and Development ( WCED ), widely referred to as the Brundtland Commission, developing the broad political concept of sustainable development in the course of extensive public hearings that were distinguished by their inclusiveness and published its report Our Common Future in April 1987.

With such a reputation seemingly firm and in place for both Punch and Tenniel, it would stand to reason that the artist ’ s public status attracted high levels of attention and notoriety from his peers and the public ; Carroll, a regular reader of Punch, knew, of course, of Tenniel.

It consists of a golf course, a miniature golf course, a public swimming pool, the Peter Hurst Planetarium, and the Ella Sharp Museum.

In Antioch, over the course of twelve years, John gained popularity because of the eloquence of his public speaking, especially his insightful expositions of Bible passages and moral teaching.

It was the birthplace of Emperor Septimius Severus, who lavished an extensive public works programme on the city, including diverting the course of a nearby river.

The persons connected with the administration as it existed at the death of Oliver, were of course interested in keeping things as they were ; and, as it was necessary for some one to assume the reins of government until the public will could be ascertained and brought into exercise.

Courses such as public speaking and speech analysis apply fundamental Greek theories ( such as the modes of persuasion: ethos, pathos, and logos ) as well as trace rhetorical development throughout the course of history.

" With no public notice, Senator Orrin Hatch tacked on to the proposed exclusionary subsection the words " or for any course of instruction the substance of which is Secular Humanism ".

The course opened to the public in the spring of 1931.

Wilson also studied public administration, which he called " government in action ; it is the executive, the operative, the most visible side of government, and is of course as old as government itself ".

Over the course of the five weeks, men prepare large masked heads and women raise funds to pay for the mannequins that will be sacrificed in a public bonfire.

Because Sweden's socialist leaders chose a moderate, reformist political course with broad-based public support in the early stages of Swedish industrialization and prior to the full-blown development of Swedish interclass politics, Sweden escaped the severe extremist challenges and political and class divisions that plagued many European countries that attempted to develop social democratic systems after 1911.

* Patton Golf Course, an 18 hole regulation length public golf course at the Fort Benning Golf Club, Fort Benning, Georgia.

The role of the augur was that of consulting and interpreting the will of gods about some course of action such as accession of kings to the throne, of magistrates and major sacerdotes to their functions ( inauguration ) and all public enterprises.

Brighton has a horse-racing course, Brighton Racecourse, with the unusual feature that when the full length of the course is to be used, some of the grass turf of the track has to be laid over the tar at the top of Wilson Avenue, a public road, which therefore has to be closed for the races.

* Notes for a course in public choice by Bryan Caplan