Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

Accordingly, it is the aim of this essay to advance a new theory of imitation ( which I shall call mimesis in order to distinguish it from earlier theories of imitation ) and a new theory of invention ( which I shall call symbol for reasons to be stated hereafter ).

For what we propose, however, a psychoanalyst is not necessary, even though one aim is to enable the reader to get beneath his own defenses -- his defenses of himself to himself.

William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the way in which this control is effected: `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) -- then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification, compounding, or magnification, or any direct assault upon the affections at all.

Nature's aim, different from ours, is to provide for the coming generation.

My aim in mentioning this factor obviously is not to give license to `` wild therapy '' but rather to encourage us to use the time-honored clinical casework skills we already possess, and to use them with greater confidence, precision, and professional pride.

The aim is to collect a very broad range of physical, chemical, morphological, and structural data for crystals on an encyclopedic scale and to seek all possible useful and revealing correlations of properties with internal structure.

Critical evaluation of all data compiled is not a primary aim of this project.

That much of what he calls folklore is the result of beliefs carefully sown among the people with the conscious aim of producing a desired mass emotional reaction to a particular situation or set of situations is irrelevant.

As a finale is appended a close-up of one of the band taking aim and firing his revolver straight at the audience.

The end or aim of the action, of course, is also important, especially where it is not alone a matter of changing community customs but of the use of deadly economic power to intimidate a person from stepping forward to claim his legal rights, e.g., against Negroes who register to vote in Fayette County, Tennessee, at the present moment.

but my primary aim is to transcribe what Englishmen themselves are saying and writing and implying about the Roman and Anglican Churches and about the present religious state of England.

The Government of Armenia's stated aim is to build a Western-style parliamentary democracy as the basis of its form of government.

* 1925 – Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that is at the time in danger of dying out.

* 1971 – The first Pacific Islands Forum ( then known as the " South Pacific Forum ") is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean.

In fact, Fitzmyer believes that the preface of Luke should only be “ the starting point in the discussion of the aim of Luke-Acts .” Because the author ’ s intended purpose for the Book of Acts is not that straightforward, scholars have put forth four main claims to address this.

A " drive " or " fire " or " strike " involves bowling with force with the aim of knocking either the jack or a specific bowl out of play-and with the drive's speed, there is virtually no noticeable ( or, at least, much less ) curve on the shot.

To meet that aim, Brabham and Tauranac set up Motor Racing Developments Ltd. ( MRD ), deliberately avoiding the use of either man ’ s name.

Other types of compound bows use either ( one or both ) cam shaped or eccentrically mounted pulleys in order to provide a " let off ", such that the archer is not holding against the maximum draw weight of the bow while trying to aim.

The play will begin with the snap of the ball ( typically but not exclusively to the quarterback ), and it will end when the effort by the offensive squad to advance the ball has either succeeded in scoring, or has been frustrated by the ball being downed before the aim of the offensive play is accomplished, or by the defensive squad having managed to come into possession of the ball without first downing it.

In full-contact sparring, the aim of a competitive match is either to knock out the opponent or to force the opponent to submit.

In the landing the jumper should aim to avoid sitting back on landing, or placing either hand behind the feet.

There are three distinct means of achieving this aim: by bowling the ball on a consistently good line and length, by bowling with sufficient pace that the batsman struggles to react to the delivery, or by bowling the ball in such a way that it has lateral movement as it approaches the batsman, either in the air or off the ground.

By adjusting the odds in his favour or by having a point spread, the bookmaker will aim to guarantee a profit by achieving a ' balanced book ', either by getting an equal number of bets for each outcome, or ( when he is offering odds ) by getting the amounts wagered on each outcome to reflect the odds.

Other than the vague aim of " ever closer union " in the 1983 Solemn Declaration on European Union, the Union ( meaning its member governments ) has no current policy to create either a federation or a confederation.

The aim of these inquiries would be to prevent the appointment to positions of anyone found to have even a taint of heresy in their lineage — that is, a trace of Jewish or Moorish blood or contamination by trade or commerce in either side of the family for many generations.

* Under the mixed member proportional representation ( MMP ) or Top-Up ( compensatory ) system, the aim is either for the party's total number of representatives, including constituency representatives, to be proportional to its percentage of the party vote, or for the allocation of additional party seats to offset all or most of the disproportionate result in the constituencies.

The ultimate aim of this group is to make profit, either through galactic expansion, acquisition ( see the Rules of Acquisition ), or trade.

Facing the necessity of either coming up with a hit black-centric show or being fired, Delacroix decides to aim for the latter.

The aim was to inflict enough pain and humiliation on a person to make him either reform his behavior or leave town.

I think that all the means available to wreck tribes must be used, barring those that the human kind and the right of nations condemn. I personally believe that the laws of war enable us to ravage the country and that we must do so either by destroying the crops at harvest time or any time by making fast forays also known as raids the aim of which it to get hold of men or flocks.

For the lists of the earliest, mythological rulers, both titles are conventionally translated in English as " Sovereigns " though individual rulers entitled either huang or di from this period are translated in English with the title " Emperor " as these early mythological histories aim to feature the sovereigns of the evolving polity of the Chinese state, tracking those states which can best be claimed in a roughly continuous chain of imperial primacy interspersed with several periods of disunity such as the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period, the Three Kingdoms Period, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, the republican Chinese Civil War and so on.

Further evidence suggests that emancipative values motivate people to engage in elite-challenging collective actions that aim at democratic achievements, either to sustain and improve democracy when it is granted or to establish it when it is denied.

* Athenian: " For ourselves, we shall not trouble you with specious pretenses — either of how we have a right to our empire because we overthrew the Mede, or are now attacking you because of wrong that you have done us — and make a long speech which would not be believed ; and in return we hope that you, instead of thinking to influence us by saying that you did not join the Spartans, although their colonists, or that you have done us no wrong, will aim at what is feasible, holding in view the real sentiments of us both ; since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must " ( Strassler 352 / 5. 89 ).

In his book Mafia State, Luke Harding, the Moscow correspondent for The Guardian from to 2007 to 2011 and a fierce critic of Russia, alleges that the FSB subjected him to continual psychological harassment, with the aim of either getting him to practice self-censorship in his reporting, or to quit the country entirely.

This means that the state will aim toward either the protection, restoration or the enhancement of the coastal zone or for the creation of new wetlands.

One essay describes the huge difficulty of negotiation when regime change is a war aim on either side of a conflict.

Hitchens opposed the Kosovo and 2003 Iraq Wars, on the grounds that neither was in the interests of either Britain or the United States, and opposes the British military presence in Afghanistan, arguing that it is has no achievable aim.

: The aim of a journalist may either be to enlarge the circulation of a paper or to give his readers a true and intelligent picture of the world ; of a lawyer either to extend his practice or to help justice be done ; of a business man either to grow rich or to play his part as a ' nurse ' of the community.

Italy, it has been argued, wished to recreate the Roman empire, though its primary aim at the time seems to have been the denial of access to the Adriatic Sea to another major sea power.

Antony exercised his tribunician veto, with the aim of preventing a senatorial decree declaring martial law against the veto, and was violently expelled from the senate with another Caesar adherent, Cassius, who was also a tribune of the plebs.

The aim of pulse modulation methods is to transfer a narrowband analog signal, for example a phone call over a wideband baseband channel or, in some of the schemes, as a bit stream over another digital transmission system.

::“ It is truly a whimsical supposition that, if mankind were agreed in considering utility to be the test of morality, they would remain without any agreement as to what is useful, and would take no measures for having their notions on the subject taught to the young, and enforced by law and opinion … to consider the rules of morality as improvable, is one thing ; to pass over the intermediate generalisations entirely, and endeavour to test each individual action directly by the first principle, is another … The proposition that happiness is the end and aim of morality, does not mean that no road ought to be laid down to that goal … Nobody argues that the art of navigation is not founded on astronomy, because sailors cannot wait to calculate the Nautical Almanack.

The proposition that happiness is the end and aim of morality, does not mean that no road ought to be laid down to that goal, or that persons going thither should not be advised to take one direction rather than another.

The Teatro Regio di Parma, another company with a similar aim, gave it in October 2005.

Yet another method is to use thermite to weld the traversing and elevation mechanism of the weapon, making it impossible to aim properly.

Therefore ( according to the journalists Asami Kazuo and Suzuki Jiro, writing in the Tokyo Nichi-Nichi Shimbun of December 13 ), they decided to begin another contest, with the aim being 150 kills.

* With Hamilcar Barca wearing the Romans down in Sicily, the Romans, by private subscription, build another fleet with the aim of regaining command of the sea.

In December 1621 he left with another delegation, this time with the aim of requesting support for the United Provinces, returning after a year and two months in February 1623.

" Users are expected to " assume good faith " when interacting with one another even when it is argued that some users deserve karma points to differentiate their contributions, which could affect the aim of clarity and utility, in pursuit of the literary glory ..

As well as organizing the conference, the steering committee also maintained a register of attendee names and contact details, with the aim of creating an informal network of individuals who could call upon one another in a private capacity.

The purposeful evolution of the standard breeding aim is another characteristic of the warmbloods.

All current antibiotics aim to kill the individual bacteria in one manner or another ( by inhibiting synthesis of new bacteria, usually ).

Polykleitos consciously created a new approach to sculpture ; he wrote a treatise ( Kanon ) and designed a male nude ( also known as Kanon ) exemplifying his aesthetic theories of the mathematical bases of artistic perfection, which motivated Kenneth Clark to place him among " the great puritans of art ": His Kanon " got its name because it had a precise commensurability ( symmetria ) of all the parts to one another " " His general aim was clarity, balance, and completeness ; his sole medium of communication the naked body of an athlete, standing poised between movement and repose " Kenneth Clark observed.

Chickamauga was the first large scale Confederate movement of troops from one theater to another with the aim of achieving a period of numerical superiority and gaining decisive results.

She needed to settle down and have a family and a good life ; he was brave and a dead aim, but was lazy and prone to wandering away for another adventure.

Boyer subsequently introduced another bill in September 2009 to mandate disclaimers on photographs in which body parts have been retouched, with the aim of reducing the impact of unrealism in photography on young girls and women.

Undeterred, she was still resolute in her aim to study at Art School, so she spent another year at Cardonald College, finally achieving the results needed to pursue her dream of attending the Glasgow School of Art.

This, even for the sake of interest is more noxious than useful ; for, as another officer was telling me, if our sole aim is to equal the Turks, in fact we shall be in a far lower position than theirs: barbarians for barbarians, the Turks will always outdo us because they are Muslim barbarians.

The argument takes aim at the positivist idea that law and politics can be entirely separated from one another.

In another series, L ' histoire ancienne, he took aim at the constraining pseudo-classicism of the art of the period.

In the same way the united front tactic has nothing to do with the so-called ‘ electoral combinations ’ of leaders in pursuit of one or another parliamentary aim.

While Winnicott's stated aim was to give ' young mothers ... support in their reliance on their natural tendencies ', in practice idealisation of what he insisted was only the good enough mother might perhaps become another perfectionist yardstick for parents to be found wanting by.