While the first two books focus on the lives of the two giants, the rest of the series is mostly devoted to the adventures of Pantagruel's friends – such as Panurge, a roguish, erudite maverick, and Brother Jean, a bold, voracious and boozing ex-monk – and others on a collective naval journey in search of the Divine Bottle.

The benefits for the cyclist tend to focus issues like reduced journey times in congested urban conditions and the health benefits which the cyclist obtains through regular exercise.

Romance films are love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theaters and on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate involvement of the main characters and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage.

The main focus of the former story is the journey of a monk named Alberto Santiago who becomes a traitor to his country after witnessing Spanish atrocities among the Incan civilisation.

The Revelation CD-With 11 tracks exclusive to this format, Revelation opens and closes with a focus on Hamilton @ his drum kit, and in-between takes us on a different journey from both the melodic and rhythmic points of view.

Its focus is on Prince Hal's journey toward kingship, and his ultimate rejection of Falstaff.

The twist frequently propels the story line from a focus on an individual scientist's human and intellectual journey of discovery through to explore the impact of that insight while, at the same time, providing a change of ' texture ' and filmic pace.

However, after completing the journey to the Moon, Calculus discarded his hearing aid, forcing his friends to readjust to his hearing impairment ( aside from one panel in The Castafiore Emerald, when Tintin is seen speaking to him through his ear-trumpet ); this restored the humour surrounding him, though it could be that he finds his deafness useful since it enables him to focus on his work.

While the novels mainly focus on the New York Metropolitan Area they did occasionally journey outside the US.

LBC's mission statement is as follows :" At Lancaster Bible College, our focus is on your journey to fulfill God's purpose for your life.

Williams suggested that this shift may have been at the influence of her publishers, an idea supported by the title change, which changes the main focus of the reader from the political upheaval John is trying to promote to May's emotional journey.

He takes Zoe with him on the journey to the Council Chamber, where the discussion lacks focus and purpose.

The focus in on the group dynamics of the new tribe as they journey where the Oversoul guides them.

By following the patient's journey or pathway, the team can focus on improving the patient experience and outcomes of care.

As David Kleiss, Hank Smith, Shawn Chase, Jeff Garland, and Leo Kishore embark on the sixth year of the Barefoot Manner musical journey, the focus is all about exploring the music on all new levels.

A doctor ’ s journey to investigate traditional healing in different cultures is the focus.

This distinguishes the echtrai from the Immrama, or " Voyages ", which focus on the hero's journey rather than the otherworldly destination.

In the incessant struggle with recalcitrant political fact he learns to focus the essence of a problem in the significant detail, and to articulate the distinctions which clarify the detail as significant, with what is sometimes astounding rapidity.

Probably the most important thing to focus on is not the development of conscience, which may well be almost beyond the reach of literature, but the contents of conscience, the code which is imparted to the developed or immature conscience available.

But few who have experienced marriage can dispute the fact that the focus of interpersonal relationships is different in marriage than in a pre-marital situation.

The major weakness of vocational training programs in labor surplus areas is their focus on serving solely local job demands.

Again, one major difficulty is the local focus.

State governments have been taking the lead in establishing area vocational schools, but their focus is still on area job opportunities.

Therefore, if the sense of touch is functioning normally and there is a complete absence of spatial awareness in a psychically-blind person when the eyes are closed and an object is handled, the conclusion seems unavoidable that touch by itself cannot focus and take possession of the third-dimensionality of things and that actual sight or visual representations are necessary.

Since I have already discussed his moral position, that discussion is incorporated by reference into the following pages, which will focus on the empirical and analytic side of Fromm's treatment.

We have a brief glimpse of the Tsar's public personality, the `` official Boris '', but our real focus is on the excitement of the crowd -- a significant contrast with its halfhearted acclamation in the opening scene, its bitter resentment and fury in the final act.

This type of sociology seeks contributions that aid grassroots and theoretical understandings of what motivates altruism and how it is organized, and promotes an altruistic focus in order to benefit the world and people it studies.

How altruism is framed, organized, carried out, and what motivates it at the group level is an area of focus that sociologists seek to investigate in order to contribute back to the groups it studies and " build the good society ".

The study of kinship and social organization is a central focus of cultural anthropology, as kinship is a human universal.

* Earth Architecture-A website whose focus is contemporary issues in earth architecture.

* Kleiwerks-International organization recognized for their unique contribution to modern earthen and natural building techniques throughout the world, their focus is on education through hands on experience.

This is not the most general situation of a Cartesian product of a family of sets, where a same set can occur more than once as a factor ; however, one can focus on elements of such a product that select the same element every time a given set appears as factor, and such elements correspond to an element of the Cartesian product of all distinct sets in the family.

He is the focus of unity, since no church claims membership in the Communion without being in communion with him.

* Senior Architect / Designer: Licensed architect, or non-registered graduate with more than 10 years of experience ; has a design or technical focus and is responsible for significant project activities.

Revolution Administered: Agrarianism and Communism in Bulgaria ( 1973 ), focus is post 1945

The main focus of the site is the forum, The Ark, and there is also a ( seemingly defunct ) web zine.

The pop science TV program MythBusters attempted to model Archimedes ' feat by using mirrors to ignite a small wooden boat covered with tar, with only partial success — they found it too difficult to focus light from their hand-held mirrors onto a point small enough to ignite the boat.

Instead of seeking a grand pattern of history, post-modern interpretations tend to focus on a small subset of Chinese history.

Generally, an image of a small object is made using a lens to focus the illuminating radiation, as is done with the rays of the visible spectrum in light microscopy.

In cinematography, a large DOF is often called deep focus, and a small DOF is often called shallow focus.

The novel, which was praised by Stephen King, is similar to King's It in its focus on small town life, the corruption of innocence, the return of an ancient evil, and the responsibility for others that emerges with the transition from youth to adulthood.

The Explorer program was transferred to NASA, which continued to use the name for an ongoing series of relatively small space missions, typically an artificial satellite with a science focus.

Localization-related epilepsies, sometimes termed partial or focal epilepsies, arise from an epileptic focus, a small portion of the brain that serves as the irritant driving the epileptic response.

When certain EEG seizure criteria are met, the device delivers a small electrical charge to other electrodes near the epileptic focus, which disrupt the seizure.

The strategy and tactics of guerrilla warfare tend to focus around the use of a small, mobile force competing against a larger, more unwieldy one.

Its central principle is that vanguardism by cadres of small, fast-moving paramilitary groups can provide a focus for popular discontent against a sitting regime, and thereby lead a general insurrection.

The primary advantage of in vitro work is that it permits an enormous level of simplification of the system under study, so that the investigator can focus on a small number of components.

Later, in bebop the focus shifted back towards small groups and minimal arrangements ; the melody ( known as the " head ") would be stated briefly at the start and end of a piece but the core of the performance would be the series of improvisations.

Convex lenses produce an image of an object at infinity at their focus ; if the sun is imaged, much of the visible and infrared light incident on the lens is concentrated into the small image.

From the original ' alternative ' style of midwifery in the 1960s and 1970s, midwifery practice is offered in a variety of ways within regulated provinces: midwives offer continuity of care within small group practices, choice of birthplace, and a focus on the woman as the primary decision-maker in her maternity care.

If one considers a small fluorescent light source ( essentially a bright spot ), light coming from this spot spreads out the further out of focus one is.

Small scale clashes between militias belonging to different commanders persisted throughout 2002, and were the focus of intensive UN peace-brokering and small arms disarmament programme.

Throughout the school's first half-century, education and teacher training was the primary focus of the small regional school.

Because the spacecraft environment is by definition limited, a very small number of sets can be heavily used, lowering production costs and allowing producers to focus on character development, setting detail, or sometimes simply to keep a production in the black so it can stay on the air.

The southern, oil rich and prosperous Khuzestan and Basra area ( the main focus of the war, and the primary source of their economies ) were almost completely destroyed and were left at the pre 1979 border, while Iran managed to make some small gains on its borders in the Northern Kurdish area.

Sprint races are generally between 8 and 10 laps in length and focus on raw sprinting power and race tactics over a small number of laps to defeat opponents.

Formerly, the focus was on trading cheese and small and big animals.

* Size and focus: e. g. large and diversified, large and specialised, small and specialised