It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.

In preparing the state guide plan, particular attention will be given means of strengthening the economy of the state through the development of industry and recreation.

Nuclear weapons have given the world the means for self-destruction in hours or days ; ;

and now rockets have given it the means to destroy itself in minutes.

The climate and the events of the last decade, and the steady pressure of the `` cold '' war, have given Americans yet another means of avoiding self-examination, and so it has been decided that the riots were `` Communist '' inspired.

`` You see, first of all and in a sense as the source of all other ills, the unshakeable American commitment to the principle of unconditional surrender: The tendency to view any war in which we might be involved not as a means of achieving limited objectives in the way of changes in a given status quo, but as a struggle to the death between total virtue and total evil, with the result that the war had absolutely to be fought to the complete destruction of the enemy's power, no matter what disadvantages or complications this might involve for the more distant future ''.

When there are only two means to compare, the t-test and the ANOVA F-test are equivalent ; the relation between ANOVA and t is given by F = t < sup > 2 </ sup >.

Volta also studied what we now call electrical capacitance, developing separate means to study both electrical potential ( V ) and charge ( Q ), and discovering that for a given object, they are proportional.

The bicycle is the most efficient human-powered means of transportation in terms of energy a person must expend to travel a given distance.

Each partnership works jointly by means of various ' calls ' to secure a contract at the highest level deemed advisable by them given their card holdings.

According to the Torah, Benjamin's ( or in some countries, Biniam's ) name arose when Jacob deliberately corrupted the name Benoni, the original name of Benjamin, since Benoni was an allusion to Rachel's dying just after she had given birth, as it means son of my pain.

In the UK, where Boxing Day is a bank holiday, if Boxing Day falls on a Saturday, a substitute bank holiday is given on the following Monday, but if 26 December falls on a Sunday – which means that Christmas Day, another holiday, fell on a Saturday – then the Statutory Holiday for Christmas is moved to Monday 27 December and the Statutory Holiday for Boxing Day is moved to Tuesday 28 December.

By contrast, in civil law jurisdictions ( the legal tradition that prevails in, or is combined with common law in, Europe and most non-Islamic, non-common law countries ), courts lack authority to act where there is no statute, and judicial precedent is given less interpretive weight ( which means that a judge deciding a given case has more freedom to interpret the text of a statute independently, and less predictably ), and scholarly literature is given more.

The cone's taper means that a given amount of movement of the actuator makes the surfaces approach ( or recede ) much more slowly than in a disc clutch.

A nominal definition is the definition explaining what a word means, i. e. which says what the ' nominal essence ' is, and is definition in the classical sense as given above.

Embodying the philosophy explained by Chesterton, above, that too much capitalism means too few capitalists, not too many, America's extensive system of anti-trust legislation seeks to prevent the concentration of market power in a given industry into too-few hands.

This includes the source of these blessings, the means by which they are attained, the reason they are given, and their final result.

Finally, as schools become a means for social reconstruction, our educations must be given the proper equipment to help perform this task and guide their students.

Ordinary least squares ( OLS ) is often used for estimation since it provides the BLUE or " best linear unbiased estimator " ( where " best " means most efficient, unbiased estimator ) given the Gauss-Markov assumptions.

The exact meaning of his name is uncertain: the common translation is " Lord of the Earth ": the Sumerian en is translated as a title equivalent to " lord "; it was originally a title given to the High Priest ; ki means " earth "; but there are theories that ki in this name has another origin, possibly kig of unknown meaning, or kur meaning " mound ".

Ninti, the title of Ninhursag, also means " the mother of all living ", and was a title given to the later Hurrian goddess Kheba.

In Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, " gift " also means ' married ', in the sense ' given in marriage '.

# A certain means of wiring an alternating current electrical generator, and AC electric motors, so that when the generator is made to turn at a given speed, or even turned to a certain angle, each motor connected to it will also turn at that speed, or at the same angle.

* Cell on wheels, a means of providing temporary mobile phone network coverage

That means an ISDN line can take care of most people's complete communications needs ( apart from broadband Internet access and entertainment television ) at a much higher transmission rate, without forcing the purchase of multiple analog phone lines.

“ Donner quelque chose de mano y mano ” means to give something to someone in person, with direct physical contact ( as opposed to using an intermediary, be it a common friend, a phone call or an e-mail ).

SMS as used on modern handsets originated from radio telegraphy in radio memo pagers using standardized phone protocols and later defined as part of the Global System for Mobile Communications ( GSM ) series of standards in 1985 as a means of sending messages of up to 160 characters, to and from GSM mobile handsets.

In the mid 1970s, emerging long distance competitors like MCI and Sprint faced the same tactic of denying interconnection, which regulators quashed, followed by a series of efforts by the Bell System phone companies to escalate the costs of interconnection as an indirect means of excluding competition.

In telephone networks, digital communication is utilized for transferring many phone calls over the same copper cable or fiber cable by means of Pulse code modulation ( PCM ), i. e. sampling and digitization, in combination with Time division multiplexing ( TDM ) ( 1962 ).

* Cellular Digital Accessory, a means to identify the software version of a mobile phone

VoIP is a technology used by IP telephony as a means of transporting phone calls.

VoIP solutions aimed at businesses have evolved into unified communications services that treat all communications — phone calls, faxes, voice mail, e-mail, Web conferences and more — as discrete units that can all be delivered via any means and to any handset, including cellphones.

The word surveillance may be applied to observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment ( such as CCTV cameras ), or interception of electronically transmitted information ( such as Internet traffic or phone calls ).

Nevertheless it allows placing calls from a phone where the rotary dial or keypad has been disabled by a key lock or other means to prevent unauthorized calls from that phone.

Usually the patient then returns the perceived affection by means of letters, phone calls, gifts, and visits to the unwitting recipient.

Mobile phone reception may be too weak to make a phone call, and the killer can isolate his victims further by cutting the phone or electrical lines, disabling communication devices ( short wave radio ) and destroying their means of escape such as their vehicles, which makes escape near impossible.

It also generally means that users who intentionally radiate signals ( TV stations and cell phone companies ) can order the device turned off if it interferes with their licensed operations.

Usually the internship is conducted via virtual means, such as phone, email, and web communication.

Other sources, quoted by Forbes ( Adams Media Research, Veronis Suhler Communications Industry Report, and IVD ), even taking into consideration all possible means ( video networks and pay-per-view movies on cable and satellite, web sites, in-room hotel movies, phone sex, sex toys, and magazines ) mention the $ 2. 6 – 3. 9 billion figure ( without the cellphone component ).

A caller who possesses no means of payment may have the phone company's operator ask the call recipient if the recipient is willing to make payment for the call ; this is known as " reversing the charges ", " reverse charged call " or a " collect call ".

This arrival of the mobile phone drastically changed the predominant modes of communication in the city, allowing traders to have a faster and more affordable means of communicating with buyers and sellers.

Like other Symbian-based smartphones, the P900 is an open phone, which means that it is possible to develop and install third party applications without restrictions.

Selection bias, nonresponse bias, or coverage bias occurs when the conditions for subset polling significantly differ from the conditions for the larger poll or election ; event-based straw polls, where registration often closely mirrors voter registration, suffer less from nonresponse bias than opinion polls, where inclusion generally means owning a landline phone, being the party that answers the phone, being willing to answer the poll questions, and being a " likely voter " based on pollster criteria.