The Association aimed to alter Britain's policies towards the colonies without severing allegiance.

By design, it is a broad strategy that provides strong direction for the future, but it is aimed to retain sufficient flexibility and freedom of action to allow ONR to meet emerging challenges or alter course as directed by senior Naval leadership.

According to Mike Dash, a Welsh historian, few scientists doubt there are thousands of unknown animals, particularly invertebrates, awaiting discovery ; however, cryptozoologists are largely uninterested in researching and cataloging newly-discovered species of ants or beetles, instead focusing their efforts towards " more elusive " creatures that have often defied decades of work aimed at confirming their existence.

COINTELPRO ( an acronym for Counterintelligence Program ) was a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) aimed at surveying, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.

To make matters worse, Stalin began espousing his policy of socialism in one country – a policy often viewed, wrongly, as an attack on Trotsky, when it was really aimed at Zinoviev.

The dialogue often contrasts so strongly with the mythical and heroic setting, it looks as if Euripides aimed at parody, as for example in The Trojan Women, where the heroine's rationalized prayer provokes comment from Menelaus:

Episodes of television series and Halloween-themed specials ( with the specials usually aimed at children ) are commonly aired on or before the holiday, while new horror films are often released theatrically before the holiday to take advantage of the atmosphere.

Less common are bara — larger, often heavily muscled and sometimes hairy males, the yaoi counterpart of the " bear " in gay pornography — as well as oyaji ( meaning " daddy " or " uncle "), featuring middle-aged and elderly men ; these types are mainly found in material aimed at gay men, which may be called bara or ' men's love ' ( ML ), and is considered to be distinct from yaoi.

It was the Swedish regent, Birger Jarl, who established Swedish rule in Finland through the Second Swedish Crusade, most often dated to 1249, which was aimed at Tavastians who had stopped being Christian again.

Thus " pop music " may be used to describe a distinct genre, aimed at a youth market, often characterized as a softer alternative to rock and roll.

Counseling aimed toward encouraging individuals to design ambitious goals and work toward them, with recognition that there are external factors that may impact, often results in the incorporation of a more positive achievement style by students and employees, whatever the setting, to include higher education, workplace, or justice programming.

There was also a process that has been described as the " feminisation " of rock and roll, with the charts beginning to be dominated by love ballads, often aimed at a female audience, and the rise of girl groups like The Shirelles and The Crystals.

Licensees such as Dark Horse Comics have misidentified several of the seinen titles, and in particular manga and anime aimed at a younger audience in Japan is often considered " inappropriate " for minors in the US.

We has often been discussed as a political satire aimed at the police state which Zamyatin perceived in the Soviet Union.

Here in the late 20th century conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States, the charge of Neocolonialism was often aimed at Western involvement in the affairs of the Third World and other developing nations.

Their photos are largely aimed at male audiences with poses or activities often intended to be provocative or suggestive, generally accentuated by an air of playfulness and innocence rather than aggressive sexuality.

As the French car industry switched from making large powerful cars to small utilitarian ones, French sports cars of the 1950s and early 1960s tended to be small-capacity and highly aerodynamic ( often based on Panhard or Renault components ), aimed at winning the " Index of Performance " at Le Mans and Reims and triumphing in handicap races.

Although originally children's literature was often a re-writing of other forms, since the 1400s there has been much literature aimed specifically at children, often with a moral or religious message.

This measure was particularly aimed at hampering the shipping of the highly trade-dependent Dutch and often used as a pretext simply to take their ships ; as General Monck put it: " The Dutch have too much trade, and the English are resolved to take it from them.

These are often informal events and the dancing is unrefined-also being aimed at beginners or at least those with very limited skills-and is restricted primarily to a very small set of well known dances ( particularly in urban settings ).

They are perhaps best described as the television of their day, containing a variety of serial stories and articles, with something aimed at each members of the family, and often illustrated profusely with woodcut illustrations.

Samaritans ( until 2002 known as The Samaritans ) is a registered charity aimed at providing emotional support to anyone in emotional distress or at risk of suicide throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland, often through their telephone helpline.

These are often aimed at a specific sector / group of people.

At various times, she will take an ordinarily common situation ( for example being Most Popular in the yearbook ) and make it into a full blown out situation aimed at increasing her ego, or to shame or humiliate her target ( most often that target being Betty ).

Anthropologists from Émile Durkheim through Turner and contemporary theorists like Michael Silverstein ( 2004 ) treat ritual as social action aimed at particular transformations often conceived in cosmic terms.

The guerrillas launch their long-planned assault on Najibullah's hometown, the garrison town of Gardez in southeastern Afghanistan, and coordinate a series of attacks aimed at demoralizing the Afghan Army and destabilizing the government, but none of the attacks is decisive.

His success lay in his ability to incorporate these encyclopaedic references subtly, within a decisive architecture of strong, confident gestures that aimed to remake urban form.

In founding the Stratemeyer Syndicate, Edward Stratemeyer aimed to produce books in an efficient, assembly-line fashion and to write them in such a way as to maximize their popularity.

Theoretically, the cannon could be aimed in an oblique fashion.

The booklet was distributed to all Littlewoods customers with fashion advice aimed to suit all body shapes.

The new book is aimed to help women decipher what particular shape they are, proceeding to give fashion guidelines according to each individual shape.

Alfaro reached international fame in Latin America, Europe and the United States during the 1960s, decade in which she also created the Instituto Carlota Alfaro, aimed towards passing on her knowledge to young fashion design students.

Japanese fashion began to divide by age in the 1970s with the appearance of gyaru magazines aimed at teens.

In 2007, she started her second line aimed at a more mature audience and higher pricepoint, called Nicholai, which had its debut fashion show for the spring / summer 2008 season on September 9, 2007 in New York City during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.

Gentlemen's Quarterly was launched in 1931 in the United States as Apparel Arts, a men's fashion magazine for the clothing trade, aimed primarily at wholesale buyers and retail sellers.

Later reports would claim that Crawford, paranoid about doing anything that could be compared to the Phantom, agreed with the party line that the piece should be a comedy on the lines of Mel Brooks and that he personally revised and rearranged the book to that end, causing co-librettist Ives to remark that he was a stenographer rather than a writer, but in truth, the show already exhibited signs of much larger changes of a similar fashion as far back as the workshop production in mid-May 2001 before Crawford's casting ; it seems that Crawford's major contributions at this time were in the vein of a " Continental accent " ( a bizarre mix of Italian and Cockney tones that Crawford claimed made singing the score easier ) and input on costume designs aimed at hiding alleged weight problems ( jowls in particular ).

Oasis is aimed at independent, fashion conscious 18-30 year old women and operates from 281 outlets across 14 countries including the Republic of Ireland, the UK and France ; Coast is a destination brand for women's special occasion clothes with 135 outlets ; Karen Millen has a niche position away from the mass market, bordering on the designer brands ; and Whistles has more-grown-up styling and quirkier taste than the rest of the high street.

As of January 2007, they have also provided twelve pages of fashion advice within the Littlewoods catalogue and also produced a booklet called The Golden Rules, which was distributed to all Littlewoods customers with fashion advice aimed to suit all body shapes.

In 2010, Trumbull leveraged social media, after a fashion, when he posted a video on Vimeo and YouTube showcasing an original invention aimed at capping the BP oil spill.

Its mix of celebrity news, gossip, beauty advice and fashion is primarily aimed at women, although not as directly as in other women's magazines.

From January 1909 onwards, however, Griffith attempted to attract new readers by publishing a daily newspaper with sensational articles from overseas, a fashion column aimed at women readers, and a new graphic approach.

* TheMagazine: A glossy lifestyle magazine aimed at Thailand's gay community, including men's fashion, pink travel, interviews, gay lifestyle articles and more.

TVN Style is a Polish channel aimed at women featuring the latest in fashion, health and beauty.

The Nokia 6610i is aimed at business users, while the Nokia 7250i is intended more to be a fashion phone.

Scott concluded the run of both magazines and created Flare, aimed at young career women who, until that time, only had access to American fashion magazines.

They are best known for their women's fashion and accessories, which are aimed at the 25 – 35 age range.

The new book is aimed to help women decipher what particular shape they are, and then proceeds to give fashion guidelines according to each individual shape.