Gaining control or special access to the strait became a key foreign policy goal of the Russian Empire during the 19th century.

DDT became a prime target of the growing anti-chemical and anti-pesticide movements, and in 1967 a group of scientists and lawyers founded the Environmental Defense Fund ( EDF ) with the specific goal of winning a ban on DDT.

The goal of therapy thus became ' la traversee du fantasme, the crossing over, traversal, or traversing of the fundamental fantasy '.

Their studio became the first independent company of directors since United Artists in 1919 whose goal was to make films without interference by studio bosses.

The direction and goal of this period of change now became a matter of accelerating political dispute.

Shilton became England's number one and was also signed by Stoke City shortly afterwards from Leicester City ( the same club Stoke had bought Banks from ) to take over from Banks in goal at the Victoria Ground.

Hurst still emerged the hero of the win but, as a result of the third goal, became an icon of the world.

By 1989 President Callejas's broad economic goal became to return Honduran economic growth to 1960-80 levels.

The production of an alkali on a large scale became an important goal as well, and Nicolas Leblanc succeeded in 1791 in introducing a method for the production of sodium carbonate.

In August 1919, Hoover became head of the Bureau of Investigation's new General Intelligence Division — also known as the Radical Division because its goal was to monitor and disrupt the work of domestic radicals.

With respect to its colonies, British mercantilism meant that the government and the merchants became partners with the goal of increasing political power and private wealth, to the exclusion of other empires.

Their goal to " use local resources, travel light, and live off the land " became the hallmark of Mars Direct.

As Louis intended to leave his crowns and claims to the Kingdom of Sicily and County of Provence to his daughters, securing marriage to one of them became the goal of European royal courts.

" By the mid-1970s ," according to The Continuum Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East, " the idea of Arab unity became less and less apparent in Arab politics, though it remained a wishful goal among the masses.

Then, from the late 1960s onward, Stanford's goal became applying research and findings toward humanistic ends.

This kind of study reached its height in the 16th and 17th centuries when expertise in pilpulistic analysis was considered an art form and became a goal in and of itself within the yeshivot of Poland and Lithuania.

Owner Marshall was so mad at the outcome that he became a major force in passing the following major rule change after the season: A forward pass that strikes the goal posts is automatically ruled incomplete.

As a result, his goal became to " let the enemy prove to our soldiers the enormity of his cause — and the justness of ours.

Increasingly the students turned to athletic stars as their heroes, especially since winning the big game became the goal of the student body, and the alumni, as well as the team itself.

Undoubtedly, due to the great success of the exhibition, Cubism became recognized as a tendency, genre or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal: a new avant-garde movement.

By 1902, Durkheim had finally achieved his goal of attaining a prominent position in Paris when he became the chair of education at the Sorbonne.

Although Moore's law was initially made in the form of an observation and forecast, the more widely it became accepted, the more it served as a goal for an entire industry.

With the goal of researching a scholarly treatise on folk tales, the brothers established a methodology for collecting and recording folk stories that became the basis for folklore studies.

He became known as a master of the pack mark and the long goal.

Since experience indicates that effluents from oxidation ponds do not create major problems at these BOD concentrations, the goal for the effluent quality of the accelerated treatment system was the same as from conventional oxidation ponds.

When his friend, the British publicist William T. Stead, asked him to create a new organization for the goal of a peace and arbitration society, his reply was as such:

In the pamphlet for an April 1919 exhibition entitled " Exhibition of Unknown Architects ", Gropius proclaimed his goal as being " to create a new guild of craftsmen, without the class distinctions which raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist.

His goal was to create a European order based on cooperation rather than conflict and mutual trust instead of rivalry and suspicion ; the rule of law was to supplant the reign of force and self-interest.

His goal is to eventually create an army of superpowered soldiers that he will use to conquer the earth.

The goal of this policy is to create a market in which Canadian networks can realize revenue through advertising sales in spite of their inability to match the rates that the much larger American networks can afford to pay for syndicated programming.

The goal is not to create a combined narrative that everyone agrees upon.

Eisenhower's goal to create improved highways was influenced by difficulties encountered during his involvement in the U. S. Army's 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy.

The DFLP declared that its goal was to ‘’ create a people ’ s democratic Palestine, where Arabs and Jews would live without discrimination, a state without classes and national oppression, a state which allows Arabs and Jews to develop their national culture .’’

Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy-to-learn and politically neutral language that transcends nationality and would foster peace and international understanding between people with different regional and / or national languages.

The design goal behind the Eiffel language, libraries, and programming methods is to enable programmers to create reliable, reusable software modules.

Another goal of the terror was to create shock and fear among the civil population and the opposing soldiers.

The goal is to create a garden in harmony with, and adapted to a given area.

A goal that the players try to reach and a set of rules concerning what the players can or cannot do create the challenge and structure in a game, and are thus central to its definition.

Confucianism's goal was " a cultured status position ", while Puritanism's goal was to create individuals who are " tools of God ".

The goal was to create a clear definition of economic freedom and a method for measuring it.

The goal is for them to eventually gain the intelligence to create spaceships.

In pursuing the goal of regional economic cooperation and development, Nigeria helped create ECOWAS, which seeks to harmonize trade and investment practices for its 16 West African member countries and ultimately to achieve a full customs union.

Its claimed overarching goal is to create a Pan-Islamic superstate across the Malay portions of Southeast Asia, spanning, from east to west, the large island of Mindanao, the Sulu Archipelago ( Basilan and Jolo islands ), the large island of Borneo ( Malaysia and Indonesia ), the South China Sea, and the Malay Peninsula ( Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and Myanmar ).

Its goal was to create a set of specifications that would allow for portable applications that store objects in database management systems.

Peckinpah had no pretensions about making The Getaway, as his only goal was to create a highly-polished thriller to boost his market value.

Magneto's goal there was to create a new human race who would be less trouble to rule than the current one, that he decided to re-start evolution from scratch, and control the process to his own specifications.

Common definitions of terrorism refer only to those violent acts which are intended to create fear ( terror ), are perpetrated for a religious, political or, ideological goal ; and deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants ( civilians ).