On the purpose of Acts, New Testament Scholar Luke Timothy Johnson has noted that " Luke's account is selected and shaped to suit his apologetic interests, not in defiance of but in conformity to ancient standards of historiography.

Recreation is an essential part of human life and finds many different forms which are shaped naturally by individual interests but also by the surrounding social construction.

Others have since argued that the initial layout of the system was mostly shaped by domestic interests, and that it was not, in fact, strictly focussed on the port of Buenos Aires.

The emperor's chief interests, shaped by Psellos, were in academic pursuits, and he allowed Nikephoritzes to increase both taxation and luxury spending without properly financing the army.

Those attributes deemed excellent are shaped by the interests of the dominating class.

" These postings featured " a list of links each day shaped by his own interests in the arts and technology ," thus offering a " day-to-day log of his reading and intellectual pursuits " and coining the term " weblog " as as a novel form of web publishing.

While both approaches are, to a degree, political, normally in the scientific academies shaped after British model, the nature of politics involved in becoming an academician is more rooted in scientific argument, while organization modeled after French typically involve a lot more vested funding interests and purely political reasons that have nothing to do with science.

During the Civil War, British reactions to American events were shaped by past British policies and their own national interests, both strategically and economically.

As evidence for the manner in which the media has shaped public opinion on foreign policy, he turns to the role of the U. S. government in protecting its economic interests in the Central American nation of Nicaragua, first by supporting the military junta of General Somoza and then by supporting the Contra militias, in both instances leading to mass human rights abuses against the Nicaraguan populace which were ignored by the mainstream U. S. media.

Rather than claiming to contain absolute fact about this universe, the Introduction by Benotto notes that " Readers of The Dune Encyclopedia should understand its limitations: it is not designed as a definitive study of the entire eras encompassed by the Atreides Imperium " and that a portion of the ( fictional ) source material is shaped by the interests and influences of the fictional God Emperor Leto II.

According to Marxist theory, the individual is heavily influenced by the structure of society, which in all modern societies means a class structure ; that is, people's opportunities, wants, and interests are seen to be shaped by the mode of production that characterizes the society they inhabit.

At seventeen, when the Civil War ended, Perry moved with her family to a farm in Canton, Massachusetts where much of her early interests in landscapes and nature was shaped.

Signalling systems are shaped by the extent to which signallers and receivers have mutual interests.

Both artists often have subjects holding objects in a way that while unnatural also brings interests and causes the hands to be shaped in a visually interesting way.

The dynamic of history according to Marx was shaped precisely by the clash of those interests ( class struggle ), and that clash could not be understood simply in terms of economic self-interest, because it also involved human needs, customs, traditions, morals and values encompassing a whole way of life.

The government became ineffective because of large scale internal conflicts ( e. g. Lubomirski's Rokosz against John II Casimir and rebellious confederations ), corrupted legislative processes and manipulation by foreign interests.

Just as John stood to benefit strategically from marrying Isabella, so the marriage threatened the interests of the Lusignans, whose own lands currently provided the key route for royal goods and troops across Aquitaine.

John Stauber ( born 1953 ) is an American writer and political activist who has co-authored five books about propaganda by governments, private interests and the PR industry.

Fadden's successor, Trade Minister John McEwen, took the then unusual step of declining to serve as Treasurer, believing he could better ensure that the interests of Australian primary producers were safeguarded.

The 1787 dismissal of Governor Patterson and his recall to London in 1789 dampened his brother's efforts, leading John to focus on his interests in the United States ( one of John's sons, Commodore Daniel Patterson, became a noted United States Navy hero, and John's grandsons, Rear Admiral Thomas H. Patterson and Lt. Carlile Pollock Patterson USN, achieved success ).

Less than three weeks later, on November 18, 1903, the Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty was signed between Frenchman Philippe Bunau-Varilla, who had promptly been appointed Panamanian ambassador to the United States, representing Panamanian interests, and the United States Secretary of State John Hay.

Sexologist John Money later popularized the term as a nonpejorative designation for unusual sexual interests.

* The South Improvement Company is formed by John D. Rockefeller and a group of major railroad interests in an early effort to organize and control the petroleum industry in the U. S. A.

John XXII involved himself in the politics and religious movements of many European countries in order to advance the interests of the Church.

Despite a possible conflict of interests, Maskelyne being an advocate of the lunar distance method of determining longitude, the Board of Longitude sent him to Barbados in 1763 to calculate the longitude of the capital, Bridgetown by observation of Jupiter's satellites, and also to test his lunar distance method and compare its accuracy to John Harrison's chronometer, the No. 4 timekeeper.

Freeman convinced Evans ' tutors, George Kitchen and John Richard Green, and they convinced the Regius professor, William Stubbs, that, in view of his special other knowledge and interests, and his father's " high standing in learned society ," Evans should not only be passed, but receive a first.

Hooke often met Christopher Wren, with whom he shared many interests, and had a lasting friendship with John Aubrey.

* Liberty Media, holding company for the media interests of John Malone

He took the side of John, the king's brother, when the latter expelled the justiciar, William Longchamp, from the kingdom, but he soon discovered that the interests of John were different from those of Richard.

More recently, former businessman John Perkins alleges in his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, that Torrijos was assassinated by American interests, who had a bomb planted aboard his aircraft ( by CIA organized operatives ).

Kennedy was named after John Swart Kennedy, a native of Scotland who had a connection with James J. Hill's interests.

He drew on the published and unpublished work of John Leland and William Lambarde, among others, and received the assistance of a large network of correspondents with similar interests.

The lecture, on " Archaic Greek Architectural Revetments in Connection with Ionian Philology " was, of course, never given, and when asked, John Spaeth obligingly provided false details about the professor's ( fictional ) family and ( non-existent ) academic interests.

John Jacob Astor IV inherited his father William's estate and continued to promote the town and their business interests in Florida.

Thorndike never followed through on his agreement, so residents petitioned to have the name changed to " Brimfield " in honor of John Wyles, Jr., who had inherited his father's land interests and at the time resided in Brimfield, Massachusetts.

Subsequently, O ’ Neil, who originally owned a fourth of the section of the township, purchased the interests of John McConnell and John Swearingen, and retained sole ownership of the land.

The sponsorship of an American transcontinental tour by the John Wanamaker department store interests rocketed his name into international prominence.

The " accumulation theory " adopted by Karl Kautsky, John A. Hobson and popularized by Vladimir Lenin centered on the accumulation of surplus capital during and after the Industrial Revolution: restricted opportunities at home, the argument goes, drove financial interests to seek more profitable investments in less-developed lands with lower labor costs, unexploited raw materials and little competition.

The third type, however, wrenches attention from the life of action and interests in the community and focuses it on the ground of being on which the community depends for its existence.

What Sam Rayburn's life proves to us all is the magnificent lesson in political science that one can devotedly and with absolute dedication represent the seemingly provincial interests of one's own community, one's own district, one's own State, and by that help himself represent even better the sweep and scope of the problems of this the greatest nation of all time.

He had two interests in life: the pleasures of the table and driving.

The Outdoor Education Project took cognizance of the fact, so often overlooked, that athletic activities stressed in most school programs have little or no relationship to the physical and mental needs and interests of later life.

What interests him, he tells Rieux, is how to become a saint, even though he does not believe in God .</ br > Later in the novel, Tarrou tells Rieux, with whom he has become friends, the story of his life.

Like many artists, Watterson incorporated elements of his life, interests, beliefs and values into his work — for example, his hobby as a cyclist, memories of his own father ’ s speeches about ‘ building character ’, and his views on merchandising and corporations.

His chief interests lay in evolution and life development processes in general, including development of nonrandom form, which culminated in the beautifully illustrated Kunstformen der Natur ( Art forms of nature ).

This became one of Peano's main philosophical interests for the rest of his life.

He wanted to return to the educated life, to reacquire and explore the interests he had been deprived of in childhood.

* In real life there is self-selection to which negotiation one gets into, which effects the emotional commitment, motivation and interests.

By enforcing the enrolling them in the ranks of the army, we consult both their temporal and eternal interests, as they will be educated and given better life conditions.

is a 1991 comedy anime spoofing the life and culture of otaku, individuals with obsessive interests in media, particularly anime and manga, as well as the history of Gainax, its creators.

The literature on Puritans, particularly biographical literature on individual Puritan ministers, became large already in the 17th century, and indeed the interests of Puritans in the narratives of early life and conversions made the recording of the internal lives important to them.

Later in life Banach would credit Dr. Kamil Kraft, the mathematics and physics teacher at the gymnasium with kindling his interests in mathematics.

Hare was said to have been ' conspicuous for great industry – to have wide interests in life and clearness of intellectual vision '.

::" In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view ; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common life, concerning the bounds of duty, the question cannot, by any means, be decided with greater certainty, than by ascertaining, on any side, the true interests of mankind.

* Gambling is a menace to society, deadly to the best interests of moral, social, economic, and spiritual life, and destructive of good government.

In his later years, Morris returned to the paramount interests of his life: art and literature.

This plan was later abandoned, but William continued to pursue a ferociously warlike defence of his French possessions and interests to the end of his life, exemplified by his response to the attempt by Elias de la Flèche, Count of Maine, to take Le Mans in 1099.

This time, it had the full support of the king and the English hierarchy, and a grateful pope issued the bull of canonization on 7 February 1161, the result of a conjunction of the interests of Westminster Abbey, King Henry II and Pope Alexander III He was called ' Confessor ' as the name for someone who was believed to have lived a saintly life but was not a martyr or churchman.

The debt of the country has now risen, civil unrest is occurring daily, and political life has turned into personal struggles for interests.

In later life London indulged his wide-ranging interests by accumulating a personal library of 15, 000 volumes.

There are other times when the implicit interests of the vehicle and replicator are in conflict, such as the genes behind certain male spiders ' instinctive mating behaviour, which increase the organism's inclusive fitness by allowing it to reproduce, but shorten its life by exposing it to the risk of being eaten by the cannibalistic female.

As a youth, Robert Hooke was fascinated by observation, mechanical works, and drawing, interests that he would pursue in various ways throughout his life.