The aim of the expedition was to measure the length of a degree along a meridian, close to the pole, and compare the result with a similar expedition to Peru, today in Ecuador, near the equator.

A large expedition was assembled in Cadiz with the aim of reconquest.

According to Tamar's historian, the aim of the Georgian expedition to Trebizond was to punish the Byzantine emperor Alexius IV Angelus for his confiscation of a shipment of money from the Georgian queen to the monasteries of Antioch and Mount Athos.

Bering soon proposed a second Kamchatka expedition, much more ambitious than the first and with an explicit aim of sailing east in search of North America.

This was the first European expedition to visit the Top End of Australia and it was their aim to explore as widely as possible and establish a settlement at Escape Cliffs, on the mouth of the Adelaide River.

In 1257, Danylo repelled Mongol assaults led by the prince Kuremsa on Ponyzia and Volhynia and dispatched an expedition with the aim of taking Kiev.

The aim of this expedition was to weaken the power of the Timor kings and even as this expedition was comprised by the Topasses, the ' Black Portuguese ', it succeeded to extend the Portuguese influence into the interior of the country.

In 1903-1904, under orders from Curzon, Younghusband, jointly with John Claude White, the Political Officer for Sikkim, led a British expedition to Tibet, whose putative aim was to settle disputes over the Sikkim-Tibet border ; the expedition controversially became ( by exceeding instructions from London ) a de facto invasion of Tibet.

Such handovers, with one expedition vacating the station only after the next had arrived, permitted the long sought-after aim of continuous occupation to move a step closer.

In 1857 the Philosophical Institute formed an Exploration Committee with the aim of investigating the practicability of fitting out an exploring expedition.

His aim in mounting the Kon-Tiki expedition was to show, by using only the materials and technologies available to those people at the time, that there were no technical reasons to prevent them from having done so.

The following year a small four man expedition, including Heinrich Harrer, explored the Diamir Face with the aim of finding an easier route.

The expedition would also have the aim of promoting the economic and commercial interests of France in the regions to be visited.

Three years later he joined an expedition to present-day Ecuador that had the aim to test a hypothesis of Isaac Newton.

He therefore gathered an army of 20, 000 men, mainly from V Corps, and launched an expedition into Extremadura with the limited aim of capturing the fortress at Badajoz and hopefully drawing some of the Allied forces away from their impregnable positions in the Lines.

The aim of the expedition is multifold – to carry out an ecological survey, clean up the garbage left by previous expeditions and to attempt the peak.

Captain Henry's aim of using the boat to traverse the rivers ( possibly the Missouri or the Platte ) comes to naught in the final scene, when the expedition comes across the drained riverbed.

The main aim of the expedition was to extend the magnetic survey of New Zealand by investigating Auckland and Campbell Islands but botanical, biological and zoological surveys were also conducted.

He poses as a philanthropist, but it is soon revealed that he is not at all wealthy and his real aim is to find the mythical Lost City of Zinj, where he lost another expedition some years before.

The following year, Daniel repelled Mongol assaults led by Orda's son, Kuremsa, on Ponyzia and Volhynia and dispatched an expedition with the aim of taking Kiev.

His aim was hurried ; ;

Against Seebohm formidable foes have taken the field, notably F. W. Maitland, whose Domesday Book And Beyond was written expressly for this purpose, and Sir Paul Vinogradoff whose The Growth Of The Manor had a similar aim.

The aim was to state the results of all available determinations of atomic positions in crystals.

If not, he was willing to accede to William's wishes in any way that did not block his ultimate aim.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

Three years he was occupied in campaigns against the Slavic Wends, who as pagans were considered fair game, and whose subjugation to Christianity was the aim of the Wendish Crusade of 1147 in which Albert took part ; diplomatic measures were more successful, and by an arrangement made with the last of the Wendish princes of Brandenburg, Pribislav of the Hevelli, Albert secured this district when the prince died in 1150.

According to Alcidamas, the highest aim of the orator was the power of speaking extempore on every conceivable subject.

Their party was defeated ( 2 May 1182 ), but Andronikos Komnenos, a first cousin of Emperor Manuel, took advantage of these disorders to aim at the crown, entered Constantinople, where he was received with almost divine honours, and overthrew the government.

The aim was to secede Cuba from Spain, and annex it as a US state as Florida had been in 1824 through the Adams-Onis Treaty.

Its aim was to enable people to write all the African languages for practical and scientific purposes without diacritics.

The Trust was funded by a gift of $ 10 million ( a then unprecedented sum: at the time, total government assistance to all four Scottish universities was about £ 50, 000 a year ) and its aim was to improve and extend the opportunities for scientific research in the Scottish universities and to enable the deserving and qualified youth of Scotland to attend a university.

According to Thucydides, the official aim of the League was to " avenge the wrongs they suffered by ravaging the territory of the king.

The aim of the restoration was to reverse the decay of centuries of attrition, pollution, destruction by acts of war, and misguided past restorations.

His aim, in suiting the text to the views of his day, was partly to make it more intelligible to the public, and partly to make it more complete.

The aim of the council was to end the schism ; to this end they deposed Gregory XII and Benedict XIII and elected the new pope Alexander V in 1409.

The aim was to find an appropriate way of introducing Schiller's ode.

The paradox of the early Bauhaus was that, although its manifesto proclaimed that the ultimate aim of all creative activity was building, the school did not offer classes in architecture until 1927.

Their aim is to explore the properties and arrival directions of the very highest energy primary cosmic rays.

In order to make the data collection and interpretation transparent researches creating ethnographies often attempt to be " reflexive " Reflexivity refers to the researchers aim " to explore the ways in which researcher's involvement with a particular study influences, acts upon and informs such research ".

His aim was to explore inland Australia and he was hopeful of a government appointment in his fields of interest.

Starting at 0800 ( Dublin time ) on Thursday 16 June 2011, the aim was to explore what would happen if Ulysses was recast 140 characters at a time.

Like the computer age, the postdigital is also a paradigm, but as with post-humanism for example, an understanding of postdigital does not aim to describe a life after digital, but rather attempts to describe the present-day opportunity to explore the consequences of the digital and of the computer age.

The aim of the school, at least in Aristotle's time, was not to further a specific doctrine, but rather to explore philosophical and scientific theories ; those who ran the school worked rather as equal partners.

These requirements can be completed in as few as 8 courses but aim to help the students explore other fields of study while rounding out their basic understanding of the world.

Guided discussion sessions aim to explore such topics as the Jewish tradition in the modern world, how Jewish life in Israel differs from Jewish life abroad, and how mandatory military service impacts young Israelis ' perceptions of service and commitment to their country.

The aim with ixi software is to explore abstract screen based interfaces as controllers for synth

The aim is to celebrate and explore the design, history and art of gardens.

In typical Mario fashion, Mario must explore different areas to reach his aim of saving the princess.

Barthes's analysis is influenced by the structuralist linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure ; both Barthes and Saussure aim to explore and demystify the link between a sign and its meaning.

The aim of the centre is to explore Christianity in the context of mainstream university study and research, and educate the community on the place of the Christian worldview.

The aim of the Visitor Centre is to give all information needed for those tourists, who come to explore the nature of Soomaa.