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It purported to be a reasonably serious attempt at a treatment of jazz musicians, their aims, their problems -- the tug-of-war between the `` pure '' and the `` commercial '' -- and seemed a promising vehicle, for the two men shared a common interest in jazz.
Dramatic activity at the College is organized and carried on by The Carleton Players, which is to say by all students who are so inclined to advance these aims.
These differences in turn result from the fact that my Yokuts vocabularies were built up of terms selected mainly to insure unambiguity of English meaning between illiterate informants and myself, within a compact and uniform territorial area, but that Hoijer's vocabulary is based on Swadesh's second glottochronological list which aims at eliminating all items which might be culturally or geographically determined.
Even as late as 1912 it was normal in the West to assume that all art aims at beauty, and thus that anything that wasn't trying to be beautiful couldn't count as art.
The system in general aims to increase blood pressure by increasing the amount of salt and water the body retains, although angiotensin is also very good at causing the blood vessels to tighten ( a potent vasoconstrictor ).
This discussion aims at identifying and finding solutions to the reasons why hazardous wastes are still brought to countries that are not able to treat them in a safe manner.
This had two aims: firstly to put pressure on the Elector to fight or come to terms before Tallard arrived with reinforcements ; and secondly, to ruin Bavaria as a base from which the French and Bavarian armies could attack Vienna, or pursue the Duke into Franconia if, at some stage, he had to withdraw northwards.
In contrast with enumerative combinatorics which uses explicit combinatorial formulae and generating functions to describe the results, analytic combinatorics aims at obtaining asymptotic formulae.
Historians show that every real conspiracy has had at least four characteristic features: groups, not isolated individuals ; illegal or sinister aims, not ones that would benefit society as a whole ; orchestrated acts, not a series of spontaneous and haphazard ones ; and secret planning, not public discussion.
The Honor Code aims at promoting an atmosphere of respect and trust that allows Caltech students to enjoy privileges that make for a more relaxed atmosphere.
These are organisations that use coercion to enforce on their members patterns of division of labour aimed at reaching the organisation ’ s goals, which for a variety of reasons may not always be consistent with each member ’ s personal aims.
Current research aims at discovering " the signal that makes the cholera bacteria stop swimming and start to colonize ( that is, adhere to the cells of ) the small intestine.
Before the Prussians and their neighbors to the west, the Pomeranians, were finally brought to heel, Polish rulers and the Duchy of Masovia, both by then Christianised peoples, would be continually frustrated in their aims at northern expansion.
Education aims to help students acquire knowledge and develop skills which are compatible with their understanding and problem-solving capabilities at different ages.
The Rising was mounted by Irish republicans with the aims of ending British rule in Ireland and establishing the Irish Republic at a time when the British Empire was heavily engaged in the First World War.
Film theory is an academic discipline that aims to explore the essence of the cinema and provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to reality, the other arts, individual viewers, and society at large.
* CNN – NATO air attack shifts, aims at violence inside Kosovo – 27 March 1999
And it is a fact, that Ethics aims at discovering what are those other properties belonging to all things which are good.
Greenpeace aims at protecting intact primary forests from deforestation and degradation with the target of zero deforestation by 2020.
The GEO6 project aims at fostering possible novel applications within the scientific UC of GNSS signals, and particularly of Galileo.
The aims of these attacks were not completely clear, but it was argued in 2006 / 7 that these attacks were aimed at fomenting civil conflict within Iraq to destroy the legitimacy of the newly created collaborationist Iraqi government ( which many of its nationalist critics saw as illegitimate and a product of the U. S. government ) and create an unsustainable position for the U. S. forces within Iraq.
It aims at supporting different computer operating systems such as Windows, classic Mac OS, and Unix-like systems, so that data may be exchanged.
Meditation in Jainism aims at taking the soul to status of complete freedom from bondages.
This is because it does not explicitly state the aims of the war Muslims are obliged to wage ; the passages concerning jihad rather aim at promoting fighters for the Islamic cause and do not discuss military ethics.
His Pure Theory of Law aims to describe law as binding norms while at the same time refusing, itself, to evaluate those norms.

aims and changing
Brown writes that James had come to power after ' fifty years when kings looked like magnates and magnates acted like kings ' and succeeded in completely changing both the aims and outlook of the monarchy but at the cost of his own life — his policy of reducing the power and influence of the magnates, continued by his son James II, led to a more subordinate nobility.
This project aims at changing the Reconnaissance battalions into specialized urban counter terror units, that are specifically trained and equipped to operate in current combat situations.
Continual service improvement, defined in the ITIL continual service improvement volume, aims to align and realign IT services to changing business needs by identifying and implementing improvements to the IT services that support the business processes.
Since taking over as General Secretary of the Central Committee at the Sixteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Hu and his premier, Wen Jiabao, proposed to set up a Harmonious Society which aims at lessening the inequality and changing the style of the " GDP first and Welfare Second " policies.
Through changing exhibitions, tours, and programs, the center aims to deepen appreciation of the past, present, and future significance of the pharmacy industry in the broader social context and in the development of American life, especially in the city of Philadelphia and the surrounding region.
The event aims to offer advice on how to grow your business in a changing and challenging environment.
The whole campaign aims to add Extra Maths classrooms, improve Sixth Form study facilities and school changing rooms, add more toilets and expand the Fitness / gym suite.
The historiography of strictly Communist studies is also changing, with some different models of its aims, as well as the major shift caused by access to archives.
Another form of child advocacy happens at the policy level and aims at changing the policies of governments or even transnational policies.
Specific aims are stated in Articles 5 and 12 that clearly acknowledge the youth have a voice, that youth voice is constantly changing, and that all areas of our society are morally responsible for engaging youth voice.
Marx's theory specifically aims to grasp capital in motion, i. e. how, through the circulation and competitive dynamics of capital, changing expenditures of social labor are reconciled with ( or fail to be reconciled with ) changing social needs.
It aims to inspire and motivate pupils by building their awareness and changing their mindsets through the 7 Habits of Effectiveness.
The education of Vinstagårdsskolan aims at developing skills preparing students for a complex and rapidly changing future information society.

aims and culture
Within the native culture, however, establishing a connection between English Language Teaching ( ELT ), patriotism and Muslim faith is seen as one of the aims of ELT, as the chairman of the Punjab Textbook Board openly states: " The board ... takes care, through these books to inoculate in the students a love of the Islamic values and awareness to guard the ideological frontiers of your students home lands " ( Punjab Text Book Board 1997 ).
The centre aims to combine culture with industry and offers young people the opportunity for creative growth and multicultural interchange.
By 1932 the aims of self-government and Welsh representation at the League of Nations had been added to that of preserving Welsh language and culture.
It aims is to strengthen civil society in the achievement of Commonwealth priorities-democracy and good governance, respect for human rights and gender equality, poverty eradication and sustainable, people-centred development, and to promote arts and culture.
Museon aims at transferring knowledge about man and his relation with nature and culture and provides easily accessible information about topical themes and developments in science and society.
This text, which should come into force on 1 January 2012, aims to harmonize the regulation of culture and commerce of hemp in the different cantons.
He aims to prove the claim that culture and power are essentially antagonistic concepts.
In the 1990s, persons active at the Linköping University started Project Runeberg with the intention of providing digital copies of books significant to the culture and history of Nordic countries – just as Project Gutenberg aims to do with English literature.
However, since September 5, 2003, there has been a Casa de la Generalitat in Perpignan, which aims to promote the Catalan culture and facilitate exchanges between each side of the Franco – Spanish border.
Dancing Rabbit aims to create a culture that is environmentally and also socially sustainable.
* For Tolerance – this three-year program designed for years 2006-2008 aims to foster attitudes of openness and tolerance as well as weed out racial, ethnic and religious prejudice enrooted in culture and language.
The European Commission authorised public funding for the fund in June 2005 considering that " since the aid aims to promote cultural products and the Irish Language, it can be authorised under EU Treaty rules that allow state aids for the promotion of culture ".
Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.
Because the law aims to eliminate the mindset and culture of discrimination, it is irrelevant whether the person who was targeted was themselves a person with a protected characteristic, so that people who associate with or are perceived to possess a protected characteristic are protected too.
It aims to transform school and community food culture across England by giving schools and communities access to seasonal, local and organic food and the skills they need to cook and grow fresh food for themselves ;
Reported to provide online resources about Roman culture, Latin language, ancient Roman costuming and reenactment guidelines, Nova Roma aims to be more than a community of reenactors or history study group.
The Belarusian Humanities Lyceum is a private secondary school founded shortly after Belarus ' independence from the USSR by intellectuals, such as Vincuk Viacorka and Uladzimir Kolas, with the stated aims of preserving and promoting native Belarusian culture, and raising a new Belarusian elite.
It is a location wherein the praxis of U. S. third-world feminism links with the aims of white feminism, studies of race, ethnicity, and marginality, and with post-modern theories of culture as they crosscut and join together in new relationships through a shared comprehension of an emerging theory and method of oppositional consciousness.
The aims of the exchange were " To create an intercultural awareness for disadvantaged youths in Malta and Ireland, to give Malta and Ireland a better understanding of youths and culture within an EU Country and an applicant country, to create a greater union with the EU and to take a holistic approach with young people from a disadvantaged background ".
FCAC aims to contribute to the transformation of contemporary Australian culture and the ongoing, dynamic debate about the place of ' art ' in society.
The WCA aims to preserve the Wakhi language and culture and to record its poetry and music.
But since then, science ( through Charles Darwin's theory of evolution ) and reason ( higher criticism and liberal theology ) have desacralized the scriptures, and the sciences, particularly those applied sciences that are amenable to the aims of collective economic production ( be it capitalist, socialist, or communist ), have been elevated to the position of sacred in Western culture.
One of the aims of the Mod is " securing the future of Gaelic language and culture ".
The Centre for Teaching Chinese Language as a foreign language aims to teach Chinese language and culture to overseas students or overseas Chinese.

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