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It was intended to formulate a merchant shipbuilding program to design and build five hundred modern merchant cargo ships to replace the World War I vintage vessels that comprised the bulk of the United States Merchant Marine, and to administer a subsidy system authorized by the Act to offset the cost differential between building in the U. S. and operating ships under the American flag.
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Even so apparently impartial a critic as W. H. Frohock has taken for granted that the book was originally intended as a piece of Loyalist propaganda ; ;
The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.
His sudden unannounced appearance at the Borden home was strange in that he did not carry an iota of baggage with him, although he clearly intended to stay overnight, if not longer.
Maybe he only intended to scare the blackmailer, whoever he was, in which case an unloaded gun would be good enough.
In 1825, the Boston house carpenters' strike for a ten-hour day was denounced by the organized employers, who declared: `` It is considered that all combinations by any classes of citizens intended to effect the value of labor tend to convert all its branches into monopolies ''.
The `` hold-back '', as Pentagon mutterers labeled it, apparently was a temporary expedient intended to insure that the army services are built up gradually and, thus, the new funds spent prudently.
Such efforts almost always find themselves compelled to ask whether Adam was created capable of growing old and then older and then still older, in short, whether Adam's life was intended to be part of the process of time.
This was not a program intended to illustrate authentic folk styles.
Lincoln denounced the decision, alleging it was the product of a conspiracy of Democrats to support the Slave Power Lincoln argued, " The authors of the Declaration of Independence never intended ' to say all were equal in color, size, intellect, moral developments, or social capacity ', but they ' did consider all men created equal — equal in certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness '.
Historically, others have titled their appellate court a court of errors ( or court of errors and appeals ), on the premise that it was intended to correct errors made by lower courts.
If " biweekly " is used in a conversation about a meeting schedule, it may be difficult to infer which meaning was intended.
Up to the time of the revolution the promise was, " to be true and faithful to the king and his heirs, and truth and faith to bear of life and limb and terrene honour, and not to know or hear of any ill or damage intended him without defending him therefrom.
First developed in France, Gothic was intended as a solution to the inadequacies of Romanesque architecture.
* Atonement is intended for all: Jesus's death was for all people, Jesus draws all people to himself, and all people have opportunity for salvation through faith.
One was intended to be a show house, but on being completed in 1904 was put up for sale, and as no buyers came forward, Gaudí, at Güell's suggestion, bought it with his savings and moved in with his family and his father in 1906.
It was also intended so that Americans with disabilities would be kept in the mainstream in terms of scientific and medical research and developments, especially opening future opportunities in Space exploration to them, as well as public policy changes, healthcare law and policy changes, and civil rights protections and public law changes for Americans with physical, mental and cognitive disabilities.
It was intended to be a flexible set of laws that could only be strengthened, not weakened, by future case law.
This was intended to give broader protections for disabled workers and " turn back the clock " on court rulings that Congress deemed too restrictive.
It was intended to address some of the problems of the only general-purpose option then available, the plough.
She had intended Newton to become a clergyman, but she died of tuberculosis when he was six years old.
The operation was doomed to fail, and was intended to develop and try new amphibious landing tactics for the coming full invasion in Normandy.
The press was the first to issue printed books in the small octavo size, similar to that of a modern paperback, and like that intended for portability and ease of reading.
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Even Hemingway, for all his efforts to formulate a naturalistic morality in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell To Arms never maintained that sex was all.
The French mathematician Augustin Louis Cauchy was the first to formulate such models in the 19th century, but research in the area continues today.
Physical chemistry, however, was one of the first branches of science to study and formulate a " theory of affinity ".
He also helped formulate President Reagan's Economic Bill of Rights, which was a series of policy proposals that Reagan introduced in a speech at the Jefferson Memorial.
Greenpeace was one of the first parties to formulate a sustainable development scenario for climate change mitigation, which it did in 1993.
The Fédération Internationale des Échecs ( FIDE, or World Chess Federation ) was formed in Paris in 1924, but at that time did not formulate criteria on who should earn the title.
Godwin was, according to Peter Kropotkin, " the first to formulate the political and economical conceptions of anarchism, even though he did not give that name to the ideas developed in his work.
Charles Bernard Renouvier was the first Frenchman after Nicolas Malebranche to formulate a complete idealistic system, and had a vast influence on the development of French thought.
By 1997, the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications was created to formulate and implement policies regarding the development of the ICT sector.
Evaluating Mead's work in Samoa from a positivist stance, Martin Orans ' assessment of the controversy was that Mead did not formulate her research agenda in scientific terms, and that " her work may properly be damned with the harshest scientific criticism of all, that it is ' not even wrong '".
Many suggestions for suitable memorials were sent to Oklahoma City, but an official memorial planning committee was not set up until early 1996, when the Murrah Federal Building Memorial Task Force, composed of 350 members, was set up to formulate plans for a memorial to commemorate the victims of the bombing.
However, he was also the first to notice some of the apparently exotic consequences of entanglement, and used them to formulate the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox in the hope of showing that quantum mechanics had unacceptable implications.
When manuals were redrafted in the mid-century, in particular after the 1848 Revolution to formulate a national curriculum, care was taken to distance their approach to rhetoric from that of the Church, which was seen as an agent of conservatism and reactionary politics.
Scottish physicist Lord Kelvin was the first to formulate a concise definition of thermodynamics in 1854:
Thurston was next led to formulate his geometrization conjecture.
On the other hand, the Congress was the first occasion in history where, on a continental scale, national representatives came together to formulate treaties, instead of relying mostly on messengers and messages between the several capitals.
Tensions with the College of Cardinals came to the fore when in 1466, attempting to eliminate redundant offices, Paul II proceeded to annul the College of Abbreviators, whose function it was to formulate papal documents ; a storm of indignation arose, inasmuch as rhetoricians and poets with humanist training, of which Paul deeply disapproved, had long been accustomed to benefiting from employment in such positions.
Nicolaus Copernicus ( 1473-1543 ) was the first person to formulate a comprehensive Heliocentricism | heliocentric ( or Sun-centered ) model of the universe
Thus, Schleiden and Schwann became the first to formulate what was then an informal belief as a principle of biology equal in importance to the atomic theory of chemistry.
The first to attempt to formulate Jewish principles of faith was Philo of Alexandria.
In the mid-1920s, Orff began to formulate a concept he called " elementare Musik ", or elemental music, which was based on the unity of the arts symbolized by the ancient Greek Muses and involved tone, dance, poetry, image, design, and theatrical gesture.
The ruling peace faction in the States of Holland was unable to formulate an answer to the unexpected and far-reaching offer.
Under the Bonn Agreement the Afghan Constitution Commission was established to consult with the public and formulate a draft constitution.
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