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.

Like in Hinduism, the aim is to prevent the accumulation of harmful karma.

The aim is to prevent a conflict of interest and too much power being concentrated in the hands of one person.

Governments generally have some degree of influence over even " independent " central banks ; the aim of independence is primarily to prevent short-term interference.

The aim of the Convention is that Parties shall endeavour to limit and, as far as possible, gradually reduce and prevent air pollution including long-range transboundary air pollution.

Meanwhile, the rest of Europe slowly began a process of political and economic integration, with its aim to unite Europe and prevent other wars.

One proposed remedy was the creation of an international organization whose aim was to prevent future war through disarmament, open diplomacy, international co-operation, restrictions on the right to wage war, and penalties that made war unattractive.

An aim of the doctrine of prima facie is to prevent litigants from bringing spurious charges which simply waste all other parties ' time.

The aim, once again, is to adjust weight ' windward ' or ' leeward ' to prevent excessive heeling.

The term euthanasia in this context is a euphemism, since its aim was not to relieve pain and suffering but rather, for the sake of societal purity, to prevent further ' pollution ' of the race by ' inferior ' genetics.

The aim of communications jamming is to prevent communications by electromagnetic means, or at least to degrade communications sufficiently to cause delays in transmission and reception.

Its aim was to prevent middle-class citizens from evading their responsibilities by financially putting into question the neutrality of the under-sheriff, the official entrusted with impanelling juries.

In a limited overs match, this aim will also be supplemented by the secondary need to prevent the batting side from scoring quickly, so more defensive strategies will be used.

Britain was also determined to prevent Nasser from achieving his stated aim of annexing the Sudan.

The aim is to prevent a conflict of interest and too much power being concentrated in the hands of one person.

The aim of this ban is to prevent children and teenagers from becoming addicted to cigarettes at a young age with the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services citing that " studies have shown that 17 year old

* Medical emergency teams-These teams respond to all emergencies, with the aim of treating the patient in the acute phase of their illness in order to prevent a cardiac arrest.

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.

The fundamental aim of green belt policy is to prevent urban sprawl by keeping land permanently open, and consequently the most important attribute of green belts is their openness.

Its aim is to prevent health problems from happening or re-occurring by implementing educational programs, developing policies, administering services, and conducting research.

The aim of the monastic lifestyle was to prevent concern for the material circumstances of life from intruding on the monk or nun's ability to engage in religious practice.

One major aim is to prevent the duplication of cultivar and Group epithets within a genus, as well as ensuring that names are in accord with the latest edition of the Cultivated Plant Code.

The aim of this trade rule is to prevent internal taxes or other regulations from being used as a substitute for tariff protection.

The second aim was to protect the attacking infantry by providing an impenetrable " barrage " or curtain of shells to prevent an enemy counter-attack.

The book also employed a deliberately " scattered " style ; Shah wrote to Graves that its aim was to " decondition people, and prevent their reconditioning "; had it been otherwise, he might have used a more conventional form of exposition.