Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

James Blish's A Case Of Conscience ( 1958 ) describes a world hiding from its own weapons of destruction in underground shelters ; ;

Part 1, below describes this abstract model by spelling out its assumptions.

Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states, " A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragoust.

He notes for the first time that the center of gravity of a flying bird does not coincide with its center of pressure, and he describes the construction of an ornithopter, with flapping wings similar to a bird's.

Its title describes its contents: it contains the history of Biblical judges, divinely inspired leaders whose direct knowledge of Yahweh allows them to act as champions for the Israelites from oppression by foreign rulers, and models of wise and faithful behaviour required of them by their god Yahweh following the exodus from Egypt and conquest of Canaan.

Deuteronomy contains the laws by which Israel is to live in the promised land, Joshua chronicles the conquest of Canaan, the promised land, and its allotment among the tribes, Judges describes the settlement of the land, Samuel the consolidation of the land and people under David, and Kings the destruction of kingship and loss of the land.

While scholars suggest the marriage metaphor presented in Hosea describes the relationship between Israel and Yahweh, the metaphor itself remains controversial in its meaning and interpretation in modernity.

In his article Observations on the marital metaphor of YHWH and Israel in its ancient Israelite context: general considerations and particular images in Hosea 1. 2, Ben Zvi describes the role of the Gomer in the marriage metaphor as one of the “ central attributes of the ideological image of a human marriage that was shared by the male authorship and the primary and intended male readership as building blocks for their imagining of the relationship .”

An early 17th century Japanese manuscript, the Sankai Ibutsu (), describes the baku as a shy, Chinese mythical chimera with an elephant ’ s trunk, rhinoceros eyes, an ox tail, and tiger paws, which protected against pestilence and evil, although eating nightmares was not included among its abilities.

Plague is often synonymous with " bubonic plague " but this describes just one of its manifestations.

Darwin's famous closing sentence describes the " grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one.

The first letter describes its moisture properties, with c used for continental air masses ( dry ) and m for maritime air masses ( moist ).

The second letter describes the thermal characteristic of its source region: T for tropical, P for polar, A for Arctic or Antarctic, M for monsoon, E for equatorial, and S for superior air ( dry air formed by significant downward motion in the atmosphere ).

American media critic Herbert Schiller wrote: " The concept of cultural imperialism today best describes the sum of the processes by which a society is brought into the modern world system and how its dominating stratum is attracted, pressured, forced, and sometimes bribed into shaping social institutions to correspond to, or even promote, the values and structures of the dominating centre of the system.

" People of the Dark " is a remembrance story of " past lives ", and in its first-person narrative the protagonist describes one of his previous incarnations: Conan, a black-haired barbarian hero who swears by a deity called Crom.

In the Encyclopedia of Chicago, Northwestern University Professor Bill Savage describes Chicago fiction as prose which tries to " capture the essence of the city, its spaces and its people.

The Luttrell Psalter, dating to around 1340, describes a grindstone rotated by two cranks, one at each end of its axle ; the geared hand-mill, operated either with one or two cranks, appeared later in the 15th century ;

According to critic Geoffrey Blum, the process that saw its beginnings in 1942's Pirate Gold first bore its full fruit in 1950's ' Vacation Time ,' which he describes as ' a visual primer for reading comics and understanding ... the form ...." From the early 1950s Barks undertook the quarterly adventures of Uncle Scrooge and the duck clan in Scrooge's own title.

Firstly, cyberspace describes the flow of digital data through the network of interconnected computers: it is at once not " real ", since one could not spatially locate it as a tangible object, and clearly " real " in its effects.

He describes this as the good life, where the organism continually aims to fulfill its full potential.

In an official statement on its origins, TFI partly describes the practice of Flirty Fishing as follows:

This collection of bits describes both the contained database data and its related metadata ( i. e., data that describes the contained data and allows computer programs to manipulate the database data correctly ).

Aftonbladet is owned by the Swedish Trade Union Confederation ( LO ) and Norwegian media group Schibsted, and its editorial page describes it as an " independent social-democratic newspaper ".

" An August 2011 editorial by The Washington Post describes the 2nd district as " curlicue territories strung together by impossibly delicate tendrils of land " and " a crazy-quilt confection drawn for the express purpose of ousting the incumbent at the time, Rep. ( and later Gov.

A London Times editorial of November 1834 describes the long-serving former Prime Minister Lord Liverpool as a " feeble-minded pedant of office ".

Steffen practices what he describes as solutions-based journalism, that is, the explicit goal of his work at Worldchanging is to highlight the possible solutions to what the editorial team sees as the planet's most pressing problems, rather than to spread news of those problems or critiques of their causes.

She describes her audience in the first editorial as " daughters of our own beloved Catholic church in England " ( meaning that the Church of England is by definition a part of the universal church ).

The IMF describes itself as “ an organization of 188 countries ( as of April 2012 ), working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty .” The organization's stated objectives are to promote international economic cooperation, international trade, employment, and exchange rate stability, including by making financial resources available to member countries to meet balance of payments needs.

In the article, he describes how to write objectives including desired behavior, learning condition, and assessment.

First it describes the likely employment of the British Armed Forces in pursuit of Defence policy aims and objectives.

* Operational battle: this describes a subset of a campaign that will have specific military goals and geographic objectives, as well as clearly defined use of forces such as the Battle of Gallipoli, which operationally was a combined arms operation originally known as the " Dardanelles landings " as part of the Dardanelles Campaign, where about 480, 000 Allied troops took part.

An engineering geologic report describes the objectives, methodology, references cited, tests performed, findings and recommendations for development.

The Johnstone House Trust ceased to exist in 1995 and the centre now describes itself as part of the ROKPA trust whose objectives are

Although the objectives are expressed in somewhat abstract terms, they are underpinned by actions which concentrate on the creation of links between people, institutions and countries in education and training – what the programme describes as the " European Dimension " of education and training.

* the function view describes the functional structure required to satisfy the objectives of an enterprise and related control structures ;

Each begins with a briefing that describes such details as objectives, squad size and enemies.

The project describes its objectives as follows:

The NMS report describes the relationship of those objectives to the strategic environment, regional, and international threats.

The scope statement details the project deliverables and describes the major objectives.

Information Criteria are a core component of the COBIT Framework that describes the intent of the objectives, namely the control of: