Steele's purpose is to present a general defense of his political writing and a resume of the themes which had occupied him in the Englishman ; ;

One might argue that the ultimate purpose of literary scholarship is to correct this spontaneous provincialism that is likely to obscure the horizons of the general public, of the newspaper critic, and of the creative artist himself.

New machinery of coordination should not be our primary objective in the foreseeable future -- though perhaps the `` political general staff '' of Western leaders proposed by Sir Anthony Eden would serve a useful purpose.

These forty-seven special purpose governments have the authority to levy taxes, to borrow money, own property, sue and be sued, and in general to exercise normal corporate powers.

The purpose set forth at the beginning of this book was first to introduce the reader to a general background knowledge of the various types and capabilities of the forecasting methods already in use, so that he might then be in a position to evaluate for himself the validity of the rather astonishing empirical correlation that is to follow, and to appraise the forecast that its interpretation suggests for the future of farm prices over the years immediately ahead.

He was highly influential in the development of computer science, giving a formalisation of the concepts of " algorithm " and " computation " with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer.

Police officers and court officials have a general power to use force for the purpose of performing an arrest or generally carrying out their official duties.

The main purpose of this work is to give a general account of Aristotelian cosmology and metaphysics, but it also has a polemical tone, and it may be directed at rival views within the Peripatetic school.

It was initially intended to be a next generation video game machine, but was redesigned as a general purpose computer after the North American video game crash of 1983.

Between the wars the British developed the Birch gun, a general purpose artillery piece on an armoured tracked chassis capable of maintaining formation with their current tanks.

Shortly after World War II, the first general purpose computers became available.

Modern CPUs are typically 2-operand or 3-operand machines — the additional operands specify which one of many general purpose registers ( also called " general purpose accumulators ") are used as the source and destination for calculations.

Some general purpose Bulletin Board Systems had special levels of access that were given to those who paid extra money, uploaded useful files or knew the SysOp personally.

The general meeting takes place yearly and with the purpose of approving accounts and appointing the auditors.

Most modern CPU designs are at least somewhat superscalar, and nearly all general purpose CPUs designed in the last decade are superscalar.

For several decades from the 1970s to early 2000s, the focus in designing high performance general purpose CPUs was largely on achieving high ILP through technologies such as pipelining, caches, superscalar execution, out-of-order execution, etc.

People who use modern general purpose computers ( as opposed to embedded systems, analog computers and supercomputers ) usually see three layers of software performing a variety of tasks: platform, application, and user software.

The body's purpose is to define the general " impetus " of the Union.

In reading their minute directions for divers degrees of abstinence on various days, it is impossible to avoid being struck by the conviction that the great object of the framers of these rules was the general purpose of ensuring an ascetic mode of life.

The basic concepts are moderately straightforward, but intractable to calculate ; and a single elegant algorithm or approach has been elusive for more general purpose renderers.

# hardware context switching does not save all the registers ( only general purpose registers, not floating point registers — although the TS bit is automatically turned on in the CR0 control register, resulting in a fault when executing floating point instructions and giving the OS the opportunity to save and restore the floating point state as needed ).

The general purpose of conventional warfare is to weaken or destroy the opponent's military force, thereby negating its ability to engage in conventional warfare.

All research within the United States contracted for, sponsored, cosponsored, or authorized under authority of this Act, shall be provided for in such manner that all information, uses, products, processes, patents, and other developments resulting from such research developed by Government expenditure will ( with such exceptions and limitations, if any, as the Secretary may find to be necessary in the interest of national defense ) be available to the general public.

The Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. at Carleton are connected with the corresponding national organizations and carry out their general purposes.

By-passing the military junta which has ruled Turkey since the overthrow of Premier Adnan Menderes 17 months ago, the army general staff, led by Gen. Cedvet Sunay, had set a deadline for the parties to join in a national coalition government.

In general they are loosely organized " in-house " unions, although the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions ( BFTU ) is consolidating its role as the sole national trade union centre in the country .< ref >

* general assessment: services only fair ; in 2006 the government sold a 51 percent stake in the national telephone company and ultimately plans to retain only a 23 percent stake in the company ; fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons ; mobile-cellular usage, fostered by multiple providers, is increasing rapidly from a low base

Therefore an increase in the study of order, at national level, is of utmost importance for the progress of the systematics of the order in general.

" However, the locus of the celebrations is the national capital, Ottawa, Ontario, where large concerts and cultural displays are held on Parliament Hill, with the governor general and prime minister typically officiating, though the monarch or another member of the Royal Family may also attend or take the governor general's place.

Within this system, macroeconomic plans are used as a general guidelines and as government goals for the national economy, but the majority of state-owned enterprises are subject to market forces.

Because the Army Distinguished Service Medal is principally awarded to general officers, a list of notable recipients would include nearly every general and admiral since 1918, many of whom received multiple awards, as well as a few civilians and sergeants major prominent for their contributions to national defense.

The distinction between " authentic " folk and national and popular song in general has always been loose, particularly in America and Germany-for example popular songwriters such as Stephen Foster could be termed " folk " in America.

In general, two extremes of federalism can be distinguished: at one extreme, the strong federal state is almost completely unitary, with few powers reserved for local governments ; while at the other extreme, the national government may be a federal state in name only, being a confederation in actuality.

The killing of a school teacher by a Guatemalan Army soldier culminated the civil unrest that precipitated the coup d ’ état ; the moral outrage of the Guatemalan national populace was manifested with a general strike that halted the national economy and stilled the country.

Nonetheless, the politically astute army officers then stepped aside from political office ( the national presidency ), and made way for a general election of the national government of Guatemala.

Tadeusz Kościuszko was chosen as its leader ; the popular general came from abroad and on March 24, 1794 in Cracow ( Kraków ) declared a national uprising under his supreme command.

A general election in June 1999 produced the first freely elected national, provincial, and regional parliaments in over forty years.

At the general election of 2002 that it made a breakthrough, getting 6 Teachtaí Dála ( TDs ) elected to the Dáil with 4 % of the national vote.

According to Japan Statistical Yearbook 2011, Japan has approximately 1, 203, 600 km of roads made up of 1, 012, 000 km of city, town and village roads, 129, 000 km of prefectural roads, 55, 000 km of general national highways and 7, 600 km of national expressways.

In January 1946, Beria resigned as chief of the NKVD while retaining general control over national security matters as Deputy Prime Minister and Curator of the Organs of State Security under Stalin.

The general public have been found to hold a strong stereotype of dangerousness and desire for social distance from individuals described as mentally ill. A US national survey found that a higher percentage of people rate individuals described as displaying the characteristics of a mental disorder as " likely to do something violent to others ", compared to the percentage of people who are rating individuals described as being " troubled ".

* 1893 – Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.

Modern Orthodoxy, in general, places a high national, as well as religious, significance on the State of Israel, and Modern Orthodox institutions and individuals are, typically, Zionist in orientation.