The true and final aim of thought coercion is to induce a change in the victim ’ s objective function itself, i. e. the basic set of values and rules by which the victim determines his or her own choice among the alternatives of any feasible set.

The aim of factoring is usually to reduce something to “ basic building blocks ”, such as numbers to prime numbers, or polynomials to irreducible polynomials.

The Laogai system's fundamental policy is ' Forced Labor as a means, while Thought Reform is our basic aim .’”

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.

His basic idea was that of a conspiracy with the aim of overthrowing Christianity -- or more to the point, any and all forms of political and social organization based on conformity to the moral teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.

Bonhoeffer denounced the basic aim of Pietism, to produce a " desired piety " in a person, as unbiblical.

The association today defines itself as " a National Organisation which has as its basic aim the strengthening of the National Identity in a 32 County Ireland through the preservation and promotion of Gaelic games and pastimes.

The basic aim of steering is to ensure that the wheels are pointing in the desired directions.

In November 2009, an expanded panel of 9 judges of the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that privately run prisons are unconstitutional, finding that for the State to transfer authority for managing the prison to a private contractor whose aim is monetary profit would severely violate the prisoners ' basic human rights to dignity and freedom.

The ideology of Arab socialism can be understood from Saddam Hussein's words: The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance, is a basic aim of the Party and the Revolution.

Many modern LTP studies seek to better understand its basic biology, while others aim to draw a causal link between LTP and behavioral learning.

He describes how, unlike in boxing, the aim of the sport is not to discover who will win or ' a demonstration of excellence ', it is a staged spectacle acting out society's basic concepts of Good and Evil, of ' Suffering, Defeat and Justice '.

" His aim was to build a broad social theory which viewed " he basic domain of study of the social sciences ... neither the experience of the individual actor, not the existence of any form of societal totality, but social practices ordered across space and time.

Founded in 1919 in New York City by Louis Marx and his brother David, the company's basic aim was to " give the customer more toy for less money ," and stressed that " quality is not negotiable "-two values that made the company highly successful.

The basic aim of agricultural policy in the mid-1980s, with regard to both crop and livestock production, was self-sufficiency.

The talks aim to cover the basic beliefs of the Christian faith.

These techniques all have the same basic aim of keeping the class comprehensible, interesting, and as efficient as possible for language acquisition.

A new programme called Functional Literacy For Our Workers ( FLOW ) was initiated by the Workforce Development Agency with the aim to equip workers who had little English literacy with some basic tools required for them to do their work.

The basic aim of SICA is the realisation of the integration of Central America in order to make it a region of peace, freedom, democracy and development.

Transgressive art refers to art forms that aim to transgress ; i. e. to outrage or violate basic mores and sensibilities.

During 1913 a number of senior officers such as Lord French and Henry Hughes Wilson had expressed their concerns to the government that the British Army would find it difficult to act against the Ulster Volunteers, given that they shared the same basic aim of preserving and defending the British Empire and believed Home Rule would threaten it.

According to the Law No. 1715, the basic aim of the Bank was to support economic development of the country.

The basic aim of the conversion of T-72 was to adapt it to the reality of modern warfare and fix its most visible deficiencies.

Our ultimate aim is to inspire a movement to fight for our basic rights and amenities.

The basic aim of the AIMIM is to politically empower the minorities and weaker sections in general, and the Muslims in particular.

The content is not the same, however: rather than individual security, it is the security and continuing existence of an `` ideological group '' -- those in the `` free world '' -- that is basic.

Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.

The basic premise of all mystery stories is that the distinction between good and bad coincides with the distinction between legal and illegal.

Furthermore, the network in Figure 3 is only the basic net through which other networks pertaining to logistics and the like are interlaced.

We are reminded, however, that freedom of thought and discussion, the unfettered exchange of ideas, is basic under our form of government.

The basic truth in the reactionary response is to be found in its realistic assumption of the primacy of the real over the ideational.

When the reactionary response is thus bolstered by an intellectual defense, the characteristics of that defense are explicable only in terms of the basic attitudes of unanalyzed reaction.

The maturity in this point of view lies in its recognition that no basic problem is ever solved without being clearly understood.

The strongest appeal of the Copernican formulation consisted in just this: ideally, the justification for dealing with special problems in particular ways is completely set out in the basic ' rules ' of the theory.

This of course was not true of the educated and sophisticated people we met, who loved their pets, but kindness is not a basic human instinct.

There is a clear relationship between their educational evaluations and their basic pattern of general values.

There is impressive consistency between specific occupational preferences and the student's basic conception of what is for him a good way of life.

Now the basic question to be asked in this situation is what motivates the manipulators, that is, what are their values??

Yet this basic condition of outlawry and anarchy is not the work of Katanga.

Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.

In still others which are barely on the threshold of the transition into modernity, the decade can bring significant progress in launching the slow process of developing their human resources and their basic services to the point where an expanded range of developmental activities is possible.

The basic mapping phase of the program has been completed and the inventory phase is scheduled for completion July 1, 1961.

Since the validity of all subsequent planning depends on the accuracy of the basic inventory information, great care is being taken that the inventory is as complete as possible.