He is known best for being the namesake of gerrymandering, a process by which electoral districts are drawn with the aim of aiding the party in power, although its initial " g " has softened to from the hard of his name.

A central aim in equilibrium thermodynamics is: given a system in a well-defined initial state, subject to specified constraints, to calculate what the equilibrium state of the system will be.

While she had an idyllic " private " life, her initial role in the political arena – and in her mother's main aim of alliance through marriage – was relatively small.

Although the initial aim of humanoid research was to build better orthosis and prosthesis for human beings, knowledge has been transferred between both disciplines.

The initial aim of treatment is to settle the symptoms of an acute attack.

The IPLO's initial aim was to destroy the INLA and replace it with their organisation.

His initial successes, however, were followed by a loss of direction, as his aim of uniting the realms through conquest became increasingly unrealistic.

His initial aim was to take control of the upper Scheldt basin and thereby gain access to the heart of the Austrian Netherlands.

The group ’ s initial aim was to create a set of phonetic symbols to which different articulations could apply, such that each language would have an alphabet particularly suited to describe the sounds of the language.

The aim of Organic Reactions since its initial publication in 1942 has been to assist organic chemists in the design of new experiments by providing " critical discussions of the more important synthetic reactions.

James II's initial aim, and that of his deputy the Duke of Tyrconnell, was to pacify the northern Protestant strongholds.

This took two decades ( it was a central aim of the work and school of Alexander Grothendieck ) building up on initial suggestions from Serre.

The initial editorial by Cavour made the following claim: " Our aim not being of making money but of enlightening the country and of cooperating with the grand works of " Resurgence " initiated by the government ".

The two's aim was to put together the ' ultimate pagan metal band ' ( initial ideas for the band included such extravagances as traditional Robin Hood costumes, though these concepts were soon dropped ).

The initial aim of Geneva was to provide a multitasking AES for users of TOS, but since TOS itself did not host any multitasking capabilities this only allowed for co-operative multitasking.

In February 2009, Square Enix reached an agreement to purchase Eidos for £ 84. 3 million, pending shareholder approval, with an initial aim of fully buying Eidos on 6 May 2009.

As its name suggests the initial aim of the LEL was to support the British Empire and to campaign for its continuing existence.

Unlike in most pool games, where pocketing a ball and spreading the balls is the aim on the break, the object in straight pool's standard initial is to leave the opponent with a.

Its initial aim was to " attract and utilize foreign capital, introduce advanced technologies, and adopt advanced and scientific international practice in operation and management.

The initial aim was to create a Western-modeled yet distinctly Central European institution that would foster inter-regional cooperation and educate a new corps of regional leaders to help usher in democratic transitions across the region.

The London Campus was established in 1973 as the Urban Learning Foundation ( ULF ) with the aim of enhancing the quality of initial teacher training.

The initial aim was to produce a series of engines of higher than normal output that would be able to stay ahead of the competition without revision for many years and which Sir William insisted also had to " look good ".

Banasthali Vidyapith ’ s aim of a full and balanced development of students ' personality got concrete expression in the form of ' Panchmukhi Shiksha ' which evolved out of initial experimentation.

The first headmaster was Clark Phelps Howland of Yale University, who reported in 1884 that “ it is the aim of the school to give thorough instruction, and to encourage in its pupils a desire for the real rather than the showy, and to develop the moral as well as the intellectual element .” The initial tuition for the Academy was $ 24, or $ 300 for students who wished to board in the Headmaster ’ s home.

The two groups had little initial interaction in America, as the 18th century Ulster immigrants were predominantly Protestant and had become settled largely in upland regions of the American interior, while the huge wave of 19th-century Catholic immigrant families settled primarily in the Northeast and Midwest port cities such as Boston, New York, or Chicago.

Marianne Elliott believes that " 1641 destroyed the Ulster Plantation as a mixed settlement ..." The initial leader of the rebellion, Phelim O ' Neill, had actually been a beneficiary of the Plantation land grants.

After some initial successes, the rebels were pinned down defending their own territory in Ulster.

Because of his Old English background, he had little time for the initial Ulster Irish rebellion.

In The Resistance to Theory, Paul de Man uses the phrase to reflect upon the initial threat of literary theory towards traditional literary scholarship in American academia.

Brown v. Board of Education was decided during his term, and his initial efforts to preserve segregation through legislative means were hamstrung by U. S. Senator Harry Byrd, Sr., and his Massive Resistance campaign.

Given the terrain of New York City after the initial invasion, the Resistance usually stations its soldiers in covered positions like craters and buildings.

Through skill and luck, the Resistance managed to repel the initial landings.

`` Damn you, Adams '' -- Jess was beginning to recover from his initial shock.

As he talked about himself, time and again stuffing and dragging on his pipe, Steinberg began to relax and the initial hurried feeling grew faint and was dispelled.

With facts mainly in his mind, he was often acute in the matter of style, and he said, `` The young who have as yet nothing to say will try larks with initial letters and broken lines.

In each case there was an initial act of violence.

This aircraft, which was planned for initial operational use about 1965, would be complementary to but likewise competitive with the four strategic ballistic missile systems, all of which are scheduled to become available earlier.

A satisfactory cloud was produced even though these nozzles were only about 5 per cent efficient in producing an initial cloud in the size range of 1 to 5 microns.

In this case, then, the military objective was accomplished with an epidemic agent solely through the results secured in the initial attack.

Such a dual derivation was strikingly demonstrated during the injection process where initial filling would be noted to occur in several isolated pleural vessels at once.

At no time was it implied by the experimenter that the subject's initial reaction was deviant.

There was no implication made that their initial reaction ( absence of an arm-elevation ) was less preferred than the presence of levitation.

Moreover, it is too readily forgotten that in the Republic what gave the initial impetus to Plato's excursus into the construction of an imaginary commonwealth with its ruling-class communism of goods, wives, and children, was his quest for a canon for the proper ordering of the individual human psyche ; ;

The initial setting of the availability table indicated that the index word or electronic switch was not available for assignment.

For the initial development an oxidation pond was constructed as shown in Figure 1.

One of his initial acts in office was to appoint Philip Coombs of the Ford Foundation as the first Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs.

One of Mrs. Kennedy's initial concerns as First Lady was the sad state of the furnishings in a building which is supposed to be a national shrine.

One of the initial questions put to President Kennedy at his first news conference last January was about his attitude toward a meeting with Premier Khrushchev.

Her initial intelligence tests registered above normal and her adaptation index was unusually high.

Seward's initial reaction to the Trent affair, however, was too bellicose, so Lincoln also turned to Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in British diplomacy.

The study of altruism was the initial impetus behind George R. Price's development of the Price equation, which is a mathematical equation used to study genetic evolution.

The first is called the initial arraignment and must take place within 48 hours of an individual's arrest, 72 hours if the individual was arrested on the weekend and not able to go before a judge until Monday.

The Glagolitic alphabet was the initial script of the liturgical language Old Church Slavonic and became, together with the Greek uncial script, the basis of the Cyrillic script.

Johnston's initial call upon the governors for more men did not result in many immediate recruits but Johnston had another, even bigger, problem since his force was seriously short of arms and ammunition even for the troops he had.

Abbreviations have been used as long as phonetic scripts have existed, in some sense actually being more common in early literacy, where spelling out a whole word was often avoided, initial letters commonly being used to represent words in specific application.