The aim of the merger was to reduce costs and increase operating efficiency.

With the aim of forming a united British Communist Party, in April 1918 the WSF opened merger negotiations with the largest far left group in the country, the British Socialist Party ( BSP ).

In March 1990 when reunification was still not at all certain, the then still-West German flag carrier Lufthansa agreed to take a 26 percent stake in Interflug with the aim of an eventual merger Reunification proceeded rapidly and the newly reunified Germany's Federal Cartel Office rejected this proposal on the grounds of creating a monopoly in the aviation sector after the European Commission raised concerns of open market access.

The aim was to achieve a complete merger over time, but differences led to in-fighting and in 1970 the two divisions split, Division A retaining the name Society of Graphical and Allied Trades and Division 1 becoming the National Society of Operative Printers, Graphical and Media Personnel ( but retaining the Natsopa acronym ).

When one of the project's scientists dies, David Tennant, the ethical caretaker, discovers that he had been killed for his refusal to accept the ultimate project's aim, a merger of the human mind and the machine, in order to produce an unrivalled super computing machine.

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 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.

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.

The aim of the meeting was to " strengthen cooperation " between Micronesia and Cuba, notably on addressing the impact of climate change.

The principal aim of this endeavour is to further strengthen the African capacity and build a wide expertise for a better understanding of conflicts in Africa, their prevention and the creation of the environment favourable to lasting peace and development in the region.

On 23 January 1961 Kasa-Vubu promoted Mobutu to major-general ; de Witte argues that this was a political move, ' aim to strengthen the army, the president's sole support, and Mobutu's position within the army.

for this are as follows: Wilfred P. Deac, " Road to the Killing Fields: The Cambodian War of 1970-1975 " ( Texas A & M University Press, 1997 ) pp. 61 – 2 ; Robert Dallek, " Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power ," ( Harper Collins, 2007 ), p. 191 ; Steve Heder " Cambodian Communism and the Vietnamse Model, Volume I: Imitation and Independence, 1930-1975 ," ( White Lotus Press, 2004 ), p. 156.: It seems likely that Lon Nol initially intended to strengthen his position against the North Vietnamese with the ultimate aim of preventing their troops ( and those of the Viet Cong ) from operating within Cambodian borders, and wished to apply pressure on Sihanouk to achieve this.

Her continuing aim has been to preserve and strengthen the U. S. national capacity for innovation by increasing support for basic research in science and engineering.

In addition to the provision of humanitarian assistance, IRC post-conflict development projects aim to restore and strengthen physical and social institutions, as well as rebuild and restore social cohesion.

JINSA's stated aim is threefold: to ensure a strong and effective U. S. national security policy ; to educate American leaders on what it views as the vital strategic relationship between the United States and Israel ; and to strengthen U. S. cooperation with democratic allies, including Taiwan, Hungary, Turkey, India, and NATO member nations, amongst others.

In 1928, he established the first Youth Congress which brought together youth leaders and workers to further strengthen the aim and mission of the department on a national level.

In 1976 new approaches by the OCRFI met with success, when it wrote with the aim " to strengthen the force of the Fourth International as a single international organisation ".

It has an established record of effective dissemination to and interaction with policymakers, civil society, the business community, academics and the general public-with an aim to seek to broaden and strengthen those links.

They aim to help Jews strengthen and rediscover their Judaism.

Sometimes referred to as " vaginal rejuvenation ”, “ aesthetic vaginal surgery ” or “ cosmetic vaginal surgery ”, various results aim to strengthen the function of the vulvo-vaginal area, firm up and reshape tissue for youthful appearances.

Joyce has taken up a number of causes often labelled as populist, such as his support for the retention of a single-desk wheat export marketing system for Australian grain growers, drought assistance for primary producers, and amendments to the Trade Practices Act 1974 and media reform regulations that aim to strengthen the ability of small business to compete with multi-national corporations.

SIPRI North America's aim is to increase different global perspectives to security and foreign policy debates across North America and strengthen cooperation between SIPRI and its transatlantic partners.

Its official aim was " to stimulate trade, strengthen bonds that bind mother Country to her Sister States and Daughters, to bring into closer contact the one with each other, to enable all who owe allegiance to the British flag to meet on common ground and learn to know each other ".

In 2011, the organization and its members contributed $ 175. 5 million to organizations and activities that aim to strengthen families and communities.

Her aim shared with her brother Sir Philip Sidney was to strengthen and classicise the English language and to support " true " religion, which, in their view, combined Calvinism, the principles of Castiglione, and acts of charity.

Its aim was to strengthen Orthodox institutions independent of the Zionist movement and Mizrachi organization ..

National Centres of Competence in Research ( NCCRs ) aim to strengthen research structures in Switzerland.

C-evo is based on Civilization II, but with the aim of correcting the latter's alleged design mistakes by implementing six design principles which correct the game itself and strengthen its weak artificial intelligence.

* Secondly, Bishop Elisey is ' to witness to the truth of the Orthodox faith before all the peoples of the West, working to strengthen it, with the ultimate aim of reuniting all in the One, Holy, and Apostolic Church '.

In addition, the SAF can also aim to help promote greater understanding and trust among regional and extra-regional armed forces by leveraging on these links to help strengthen bilateral and multilateral defence co-operation and dialogue, and participating in confidence-building efforts.

Beti's aim always, even in his harsh criticism of Cameroon's independence government, was to strengthen African autonomy and prosperity.

The program ’ s aim is to help children examine how things work, strengthen their observation skills, consider underlying relationships and identify and test new ideas.