`` The primary objective of non-violence '', writes the outstanding Mennonite ethicist, `` is not peace, or obedience to the divine will, but rather certain desired social changes, for personal, or class, or national advantage ''.

Within the Yangban class, the Scholars ( Munban ) enjoyed a significant social advantage over the warrior ( Muban ) class, until the Muban Rebellion in 1170.

This theory has the advantage of avoiding the infinite regress without claiming special, possibly arbitrary status for some particular class of beliefs.

In theoretical computer science, a distribution is pseudorandom against a class of adversaries if no adversary from the class can distinguish it from the uniform distribution with significant advantage.

FISA rules specify minimum weights for each class of boat so that no individual team will gain a great advantage from the use of expensive materials or technology.

I do not hesitate to affirm that an effort should now be made to attain this advantage, nor to declare that, according to my judgment, it is in present circumstances practicable ... we ought not to aid the rates, and remove the Income Tax, without giving to the general consumer, and giving him simultaneously, some marked relief in the class of articles of popular consumption ... I for one could not belong to a Government which did not on every occasion seek to enlarge its resources by a wise economy.

Sowell writes that affirmative action policies encourage non-preferred groups to designate themselves as members of preferred groups ( i. e., primary beneficiaries of affirmative action ) to take advantage of group preference policies ; that they tend to benefit primarily the most fortunate among the preferred group ( e. g., upper and middle class blacks ), often to the detriment of the least fortunate among the non-preferred groups ( e. g., poor whites or Asians ); that they reduce the incentives of both the preferred and non-preferred to perform at their best – the former because doing so is unnecessary and the latter because it can prove futile – thereby resulting in net losses for society as a whole ; and that they increase animosity toward preferred groups.

A busy individual who can only train twice a week would not miss out on important concepts or ideas that would give their devoted classmate, seemingly always in class, an unfair advantage – though an advantage would likely arise from their classmate's diligence and further developed skills from the extra hours of training.

* Gelo, the tyrant of Gela, takes advantage of an appeal by the descendants of the first colonist of Syracuse, the Gamoroi, who had held power until they were expelled by the Killichiroi, the lower class of the city, and makes himself master of that city, leaving his brother Hieron to control Gela.

As soon as the Curtis Act was passed by Congress, Eufaula took advantage of it by levying taxes and starting to build up a first class public school system, and to make other needed public improvements.

Some fighters try to take advantage of this by dieting before weigh-in so that they can be bumped down a weight class.

To take advantage of this bandwagon effect, IT vendors may choose to position themselves as " best of class.

The Iowa class battleships were designed after the beginning of World War II, and they took full advantage of the escalator clause ( 16-inch guns, 45, 000 standard displacement ); other than the monstrous Yamato class, the Iowa class was the heaviest class of battleship ever put to sea ( The Vanguard was heavier than the Iowas at standard loading, but lighter at full load ).

One advantage of using clone () is that since it is an overridable method, we can call clone () on any object, and it will use the clone () method of its actual class, without the calling code needing to know what that class is ( which would be necessary with a copy constructor ).

The rich who were in a position to take advantage of the situation became the money-lenders when the ever-increasing tax demands in the last declining days of the Empire crippled and eventually destroyed the peasant class by reducing tenant-farmers to serfdom.

Although Oxford rowed strongly at the beginning, the light blues showed their class by holding Oxford while they had the advantage, and pushing on with tidier rowing from Chiswick steps.

However, comparison with a rocket vehicle using similar construction techniques failed to show much advantage, and funding for the vehicle ceased.

* Although the pre-launching fuel for the ramjet negates one advantage of the Bussard design ( collection of fuel as it moves through the interstellar medium ) it retains the advantage of not having to accelerate the mass of the fuel and the mass of the rocket at the same time.

Cape Canaveral was chosen for rocket launches to take advantage of the Earth's rotation.

Traditional rocket designs use this sweet spot to their advantage via staging.

Another advantage is that the rocket works even at zero forward speed, whereas a ramjet requires forward motion to feed air into the engine.

For example: the 15 % efficiency advantage of Soviet rocket engines which used exhaust gases to power the fuel pumps, or of the Squall supersonic cavitation torpedo.

The main advantage of hydrogen rocket fuel is the high effective exhaust velocity compared to kerosene / LOX or UDMH / NTO engines.

The advantage of these rocket stoves is very little fuel they need, such as wood and dry weeds, to be able to cook a whole meal with it, keeping the air more clean with less hydrocarbons.

:" Early in the sixteenth century, Wan decided to take advantage of China's advanced rocket and fireworks technology to launch himself into outer space.

The advantage to this is that the mass ratios of the individual stages is vastly reduced due to the way cross feed modifies the rocket equation.

As Nazi Germany faced severe defeat after the Battle of Kursk and especially the cross-channel invasion it introduced cross-channel use of the V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket, although too late and too ineffectively to turn the war to its advantage.

A further advantage is that each stage can use a different type of rocket motor each tuned for its particular operating conditions.

The PLO took advantage of its control southern Lebanon in order to launch Katyusha rocket attacks at Galilee villages and execute terror attacks on the northern border.

The advantage of dual-thrust motors is that, if the fuel were all of the fast-burning kind, the rocket would accelerate up to a higher speed initially but because air resistance increases quadratically with speed, the rocket would slow down very rapidly.

The Type 4 rocket mortar was developed in the final stages of World War II by the Japanese Army Technical Bureau, as a low-cost, easy to produce weapon, which had an advantage of greater accuracy over conventional mortars in that it fired spin-stabilized projectiles.

In conformance with the maximization principle we affirm that Gentile-Jewish relations will be harmonious or inharmonious to the degree that one relation or the other is expected by the active participants to yield the greatest net advantage, taking all value outcomes and effects into consideration.

An advantage of being exposed to such specificity about an important and recurring feature of social reality is that it can be taken advantage of by the reader to examine covert as well as overt resonances within himself, resonances triggered by explicit symbols clustering around the central figure of the Jew.

An uncompromising belief in the moral law has the advantage of making religion natural, even as physical law is natural.

`` The reason for this '', the orders said, `` is that the enemy may think to take advantage of the celebration of this day.

It would challenge sharply not the cult of the motor car itself but some of its ancillary beliefs and practices -- for instance, the doctrine that the fulfillment of life consists in proceeding from hither to yon, not for any advantage to be gained by arrival but merely to avoid the cardinal sin of stasis, or, as it is generally termed, staying put.

Its primary advantage is that it is a moral choice ; ;

Sacrifice will have to be made in some cases, but it is to the municipality's advantage to finance the change-over for a short period of time rather than pay interest on tax anticipation notes indefinitely.

The statutory policy of fostering free competition is obviously furthered when no supplier has an advantage over his competitors from an acquisition of his customer's stock likely to have the effects condemned by the statute.

However, because this vulnerability is mutual, it is to the advantage of neither side to destroy the opponent's cities, at least so long as the opponent has nuclear weapons with which to effect reprisal.

At some cities, this pick-up and delivery service is without additional charge, and, if you are budget-wise, when you are planning your itinerary, you will take advantage of these free delivery and collection stations in major cities within the larger European countries.

In this model, then, the industry is presumed to realize that they could successfully resist a change in the basic wage rate, but since such a change is the only effective means to raising prices they may, in circumstances to be spelled out in Part 2, below, find it to their advantage to allow the wage rise.

The Communists are adept at utilizing hostilities short of general war and will do so whenever it is to their advantage.

It operates in its target's environment, and any advantage gained therefrom by the target is shared by the attacker.

The signals to proceed may therefore come when he is momentarily not able to take advantage of them.

Here I do not speak of military power where our advantage is obvious and overwhelming but of political power -- of influence, if you will -- about which the relevant questions are: Is Soviet influence throughout the world greater or less than it was ten years ago??

One advantage that would come to the city in having a full-time director, he said, is that East Providence would become eligible to apply to the federal government for financial aid in purchasing equipment needed for a sound civil defense program.

After Cuba and Laos, it was argued, Mr. Khrushchev will interpret the President's consent to the meeting as further evidence of Western weakness -- perhaps even panic -- and is certain to try to exploit the advantage he now believes he holds.

In the wood frog ( Rana sylvatica ), the interior of the globular egg cluster has been found to be up to 6 ° C ( 11 ° F ) warmer than its surroundings which is an advantage in its cool northern habitat.

The ability to detect interactions is a major advantage of multiple

Dung offers the same advantage and is also added to repel insects.