Seeking a more structured way to play war games, Wells also wrote Floor Games ( 1911 ) followed by Little Wars ( 1913 ).

Seeking to make appointments in a more systematic fashion, Stalin built the party's patronage system and used it to distribute his clients throughout the party bureaucracy.

Seeking a way to address these shortcomings, the textile industry has turned to Neoprene ( polymer form of Chloroprene ), a type of synthetic rubber as well as another more commonly used elastomer fiber, spandex ( also known as elastane ), because of their superiority to rubber in both strength and durability.

Tim Severin's book Seeking Robinson Crusoe ( 2002 ) unravels a much wider and more plausible range of potential sources of inspiration, and concludes by identifying castaway surgeon Henry Pitman as the most likely.

Seeking to make a " more earthy sounding album which I could hand out to the street people I talked to on Hollywood Boulevard ", in 1970 Norman established One Way Records with his own money, which was described as " an underground experimental " label, which was headquartered initially at his rented home at 6007 Carlos Avenue, Hollywood.

Seeking a more defensible position, he slowly retreated eastward.

Seeking to accelerate the development and introduction of fully automated vehicles and highways, the United States Congress authorized more than $ 650 million over six years for intelligent transport systems ( ITS ) and demonstration projects in the 1991 Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act ( ISTEA ).

Seeking more revenue for the players ' pension fund, Major League Baseball held two All-Star games in a season for the first time.

Seeking a buffer from persecution and perhaps more isolation to increase his control of the group, Strang moved his followers to Beaver Island in 1848.

Seeking a change of image and sound from that of a college-style band to a more internationally suited one, Rock Machine changed their name to Indus Creed in 1993.

Seeking more than garrison duty, he resigned after two months and re-enlisted in a New York artillery battery.

Seeking more involvement in society and politics for women, new economic systems and social reforms that would protect women and children.

Seeking more opportunities than could be found in such a rural part of the country at the height of the Great Depression, McKenna joined the U. S. Navy in 1931.

Seeking a more American name, “ MacArthur ” came into use to describe the locomotive type, after General Douglas MacArthur.

Seeking self knowledge via both fields provides more balanced and accurate self knowledge.

Seeking more art education than could be found in San Diego, Hord, in 1926, began taking classes at the Santa Barbara School of Art.

Seeking to change back to a more desirable date in the schedule, Golf Canada lobbied for a better date, such as that held by the struggling tournament The International, which held its last tournament in 2006, usually fell on Canada Day, was two weeks after the U. S. Open and two weeks before The Open Championship.

Seeking more pitching in their pennant race, the Pirates purchased Ellis from the Mets on September 21, 1979 for an undisclosed sum of money ; the price was later revealed to be " something in excess of the waiver price of $ 20, 000 ".

Seeking a more " creative " experience, he and his wife decided to move West.

* Seeking younger, more urban viewers, CBS cancels nearly all of its rural-themed programming.

Seeking to become more powerful, the gods are looking for the other fragments, but the heroes learn that if all the fragments of the MAGI are brought together and the statue of Isis is reassembled, a terrible calamity will destroy all worlds.

However, Madonna believed that the song would be more suitable for her film Desperately Seeking Susan, and re-recorded it with Bray, making it suitable for the soundtrack.

Seeking more information on the motivation of the clockwork androids, the Doctor reads Reinette's mind, but is startled to find that she can read his as well, and has enormous empathy for his loneliness.

Seeking a name, for example, for a mixture of whiskey and soda-water, the best they could achieve was whiskey-and-soda.

Seeking to regain his name and monies that were wrongly given away as inheritance, he hires Derville, an attorney, to win back his money and his honor.

Seeking a name for the experience induced by LSD, Osmond contacted Aldous Huxley, a personal acquaintance and advocate for the therapeutic use of the substance.

Seeking approval for the name he contacted Gene Roddenberry and Nichelle Nichols.

Seeking for a likely location in the vicinity of Rathinveramon, Woolf suggests that Bellathor was an older name for Scone.

Its full name is Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences ( French title: Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences ).

Chum Kiu consists of a variety of techniques and movements designed to bridge the gap to an opponent, hence the name, Bridge Seeking Form.

Seeking a replacement, Hayes settled on Harlan, and formally submitted his name to the Senate on October 16.

Seeking to retain the Cosmos ' heritage, Pinton refused to sell the name and image rights, believing that MLS would not honor them.

Seeking to clear his name definitively, Franks asked General Washington to initiate another court-martial, one that would investigate — rather than simply drop — the scurrilous charges against him.

Around this time the FBI also changed the name of the list, to the FBI " Seeking Information-War on Terrorism ", to distinguish it from its other wanted list of " Seeking Information ," which the FBI already uses for ordinary fugitives, those who are not terrorists.

Seeking to eliminate confusion between the two, Dreyer's decided to change the brand name of their products sold in the home market of Breyers from " Dreyer's Grand " back to their original but then-defunct name " Edy's Grand " in 1981.

Seeking financing for a new tennis stadium, Gould came up with the idea of selling the rights to seats, a licensing plan under which purchaser's name is engraved in the seat, and the purchaser owns the right to have first choice for tickets for any event held in the stadium.

Seeking a swifter end to the war than the long sieges in Sicily would have provided, Rome decided to invade the Carthaginian colonies of Africa and usurp Carthage's supremacy in the Mediterranean Sea, consequently forcing Carthage to accept its terms.

Seeking to test his knowledge against the giant's, Odin decided to journey to Vafthrudnir's land in disguise.

Seeking a firmer livelihood, Raven decided to rejoin the army.

Rohde reported that Amer's identity may have been stolen by al-Qaeda agents looking for an innocent Canadian to impersonate ; but the RCMP decided to assume the worst and informed the Americans, who placed Amer on the FBI Seeking Information-War on Terrorism list, " being sought in connection with possible terrorist threats against the United States.

Seeking to diversify its product line, and observing the sales enjoyed by Harley-Davidson and other manufacturers, the company decided to produce a large motorcycle built entirely in the United States.

Initially written for her friend Mark Kamins, Madonna later decided to use it as the soundtrack of her film Desperately Seeking Susan.

Seeking perhaps to defuse the situation by introducing a variation of the Home Rule Act that had lapsed with the onset of the Great War, the British Government decided to establish two devolved administrations, dividing the island into two territories: Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.