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direction and goal
Since the goal of our international planners is a World Government, this Atlantic Community would mark a giant step in that direction for, once American economic autonomy is absorbed, a larger grouping is a question of time.
In several forms of football a forward pass is a throwing of the ball in the direction that the offensive team is trying to move, towards the defensive team's goal line.
In American and Canadian football, a forward pass — usually referred to simply as a pass — consists of one offensive player throwing the football towards another downfield in the direction of the opponent's goal line.
Other sources indicate that Donald A. Wollheim was pushing for a more left-wing direction with a goal of leading fandom toward a political ideal, all of which Moskowitz resisted.
In pursuit of the last goal, it conducted parallel studies of these languages, with comparative studies of national languages, under the direction of scholars at American and European universities.
Finding the goal from one direction
This was the first Super Bowl to display arrows every 10 yards on the field of play to indicate the direction of the nearest goal line.
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.
A new governing system and selected coordinators has been established, fixing a new direction and a new goal.
The goal of this study was to determine whether particular cell activity in the putamen of primates was related to the direction of limb movement or to the underlying pattern of muscular activity.
While remaining upright may be the primary goal of beginning riders, they must ( in order to voluntarily turn, accelerate or decelerate ) allow themselves to ' fall ' in the appropriate direction, before correcting it.
Though on a journey in the right direction, Terah fell short at arriving to the divine destination — in contrast to Abram, who did follow through and achieved the divine goal, and was not bound by his father ’ s idolatrous past.
In order to quelch this negative image, Soong and his running mate Lien made an unexpected change of direction in their cross strait policy by announcing that they would drop unification as the ultimate goal in their cross strait policy in an international press conference during the 2004 presidential election race.
Compelling direction: which results from a clear, challenging, and consequential goal.
In this version, the goal is simply to grab the calf and move in any direction until clear of the other players.
It does not presuppose a linear metaphysic nor the ethnocentric concept of " progress " which is presumed in some theories of acculturation claiming for example, that intercultural adaptation moves in an " upward-forward " manner toward the singular and final goal of total assimilation ( Gudykunst and Kim, 2003, pp. 381 – 382 ) Gudykunst and Kim ( 2003 ) define intercultural adaptation as an " upward-forward " progress of " acculturation that brings about change in strangers in the direction of assimilation, the highest degree of adaptation theoretically conceivable.
Leaders of superteams spend as much time anticipating the future as they do managing the present by thinking forward to, and talking to others about their goal, for it is this that provides the team with its purpose and direction ( Hastings, Bixby, and Chaudhry-Lawton, 1986 ).
If the target function creates a narrow ridge that ascends in a non-axis-aligned direction ( or if the goal is to minimize, a narrow alley that descends in a non-axis-aligned direction ), then the hill climber can only ascend the ridge ( or descend the alley ) by zig-zagging.
This idea directly opposes the direction taken by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the Kadima-Labor coalition, which aims to negotiate with the Palestinians with the ultimate goal of establishing a Palestinian state.
Under the direction of Spelman College professor Staughton Lynd, the goal was to teach confidence, voter literacy, and political organization skills as well as academic skills.
" The eventual goal for self-defense purposes is to achieve meeting the force, determining its direction and effectively redirecting it in as short a time as possible, with examples provided of seemingly instantaneous redirections at the highest levels of kung fu by traditional teachers.
: Players that wait on the outside of the hug for the ball to break in order to collect the ball and cover as much ground as possible in the direction of their team's goal.
Once a pass is thrown in his direction, the receiver's goal is to first catch the ball and then attempt to run downfield.

direction and period
During the same period a movement with similar aims had also developed in France under the direction of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc a French architect and theorist, famous for his " restorations " of medieval buildings.
During October and November winds again go through a period of light and variable conditions veering to a westerly direction with the onset of summer in the Southern Hemisphere.
It was also during this period, that Parton began to embark on a high-profile crossover campaign, attempting to aim her music in a more-mainstream direction and increase her visibility outside of the confines of country music.
Stewart Granger was the front runner for a period of time, but he backed out when he was unable to adjust to Cukor's habit of acting out scenes as a form of direction.
During the " sede vacante " period, the College of Cardinals is collectively responsible for the government of the Church and of the Vatican itself, under the direction of the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church ; however, canon law specifically forbids the cardinals from introducing any innovation in the government of the Church during the vacancy of the Holy See.
The north-eastern entrance was widened at this time, with the result that it precisely matched the direction of the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset of the period.
The similar process of tidal deceleration occurs for satellites that have an orbital period that is shorter than the primary's rotational period, or that orbit in a retrograde direction.
A synchronous orbit is an orbit in which an orbiting body ( usually a satellite ) has a period equal to the average rotational period of the body being orbited ( usually a planet ), and in the same direction of rotation as that body.
Styling was not initially Dodge ’ s strong point during this period, though that began to change by 1953 under the direction of corporate design chief Virgil Exner.
This is also the explanation advanced by the Doctor Who role-playing game, which supposes that Time is like a stream ; you can dam it, divert it, or block it, but the overall direction resumes after a period of conflict.
As it travels around its orbit, the " dusk " hemisphere which has been heated over a long preceding time period is invariably in the direction of orbital motion.
A 2010 study, Garcia-Falgueras and Swaab asserted that " the fetal brain develops during the intrauterine period in the male direction through a direct action of testosterone on the developing nerve cells, or in the female direction through the absence of this hormone surge.
Over a 45 year period, under his direction it became one of the most important centers of physiological research.
Ofer Bar-Yosef has argued that there are signs of influences coming from North Africa to the Levant, citing the microburin technique and “ microlithic forms such as arched backed bladelets and La Mouillah points .” There has also been evidence that parthenocarpic figs were imported by humans from the direction of Egypt or Northern Sudan in this period.
During this period Port Moresby, especially its " villages ", fell into disrepair as the Fifth Air Force under General George Kenney " pushed his bomber line forward 1800 miles " rapidly establishing no less than five air bases around the sparsely populated town, and troops from a variety of nations under MacArthurs ' direction transited through the vicinity ; which became a major allied staging base feeding men and material forward from Brisbane, Australia which lies 1, 800 miles across the Coral Sea and about six hours away by B-17 bomber or C-47 transport.
If B's rotation period is shorter than its orbital period, the bulges are carried forward of the axis oriented towards A in the direction of rotation, whereas if B's rotation period is longer the bulges lag behind instead.
The net resulting torque from both bulges, then, is always in the direction which acts to synchronize B's rotation with its orbital period, leading eventually to tidal locking.
* The step from p to q is equal to half the period of the function pq u ; that is, the function pq u is periodic in the direction pq, with the period being twice the distance from p to q.

2.942 seconds.