In fact, Fitzmyer believes that the preface of Luke should only be “ the starting point in the discussion of the aim of Luke-Acts .” Because the author ’ s intended purpose for the Book of Acts is not that straightforward, scholars have put forth four main claims to address this.

The main aim of the County Administrative Board is to fulfil the goals set in national politics by the Parliament and the Government, to coordinate the interests and promote the development of the county, to establish regional goals and safeguard the due process of law in the handling of each case.

The Council of the Baltic Sea States ( CBSS ) was established in 1992 in Copenhagen as an informal regional political forum, which main aim is to promote integration process and to affiliate close contacts between the countries of the region.

The spring 1942 Amerika Bomber program also sought to produce useful strategic bomber designs for the Luftwaffe, with their prime design priority being an advanced trans-oceanic range capability as the main aim of the project to directly attack the United States from Europe or the Azores.

* 1905 – Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.

The main design aim of the house is to allow maximum light transmission.

The Siege of Khe Sanh displays typical features of modern sieges, as the defender has greater capacity to withstand the siege, the attacker's main aim is to bottle operational forces or create a strategic distraction, rather than take the siege to a conclusion.

The main aim is to replace obsolete components at minimal cost by using commercial off the shelf ( COTS ) hardware ; all the while maintaining the demonstrated performance of the existing Trident II missiles.

They aim for second touch and their main responsibility is to place the ball in the air where the attackers can place the ball into the opponents ' court for a point.

At Schedule 3 and DOC, the main aim is to check the declaration and to verify the absence of Schedule 2 and Schedule 1 production units.

The main aim of philosophers working in this area is to determine the nature of the mind and mental states / processes, and how — or even if — minds are affected by and can affect the body.

: In trick juggling, the main aim is to perform exceptionally skillful and impressive manipulations with the objects juggled.

Their main aim is to help offer a better service improving the community as a whole and are predominately run as non profit schemes.

The main aim was to achieve greater lay participation in the Catholic Church's liturgy.

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.

The European Language Council is a permanent and independent association whose main aim is the quantitative and qualitative improvement of knowledge of the languages and cultures of the European Union and beyond.

Marjoribanks and Kwok conducted a survey in Hong Kong secondary schools with 387 fourteen-year-old students with an aim to analyse female and male adolescents differential educational achievement by using social capital as the main analytic tool.

From the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 until World War I in 1914, the United Kingdom played the role of hegemon, where the balance of power was the main aim.

The main aim of this literature was to communicate and argue for a specific religious doctrine and its form was generally prose.

The form of wrestling combat probably changed gradually into one where the main aim in victory was to throw one's opponent.

In an unlimited, timed or declaration match, the main aim of the bowling attack will be to take wickets, so attacking bowling and fielding strategies will be used.

The main aim of this tactic is to dismiss the batman caught by the wicketkeeper or in the slips.

Moro's main aim was to widen the democratic base of the government: the cabinets should have been able to represent a bigger number of voters and parties.

The main aim is to understand or define the uniqueness or character of a particular region, which consists of natural as well as human elements.

As far as it is known, it did not use breathing sets ; its main aim was spearfishing.

In his first works Husserl tries to combine mathematics, psychology and philosophy with a main goal to provide a sound foundation for mathematics.

On 11 March 1922 the foundation stone of Aurobindo Bhavan, which is currently the main administrative centre of the university, was laid.

) The main purpose of the acquisition was to use NeXTSTEP as a foundation to replace the dated Mac OS instead of BeOS or the in-development Copland.

Early studies in geomorphology are the foundation for pedology, one of two main branches of soil science.

The main task of this collegiate foundation, Quedlinburg Abbey ( where the Annals of Quedlinburg were compiled ), was to pray for the memory of King Henry and the rulers that came after him.

See also Articles of Union which are the main foundation of Tanzania.

As distinct from ideas of federation, confederation or customs union the main development in Europe depends on a supranational foundation to make war unthinkable and materially impossible and reinforce democracy enunciated by Robert Schuman and other leaders in the Europe Declaration.

Italian physicist Galileo Galilei ( 1564-1642 ), a champion of the Copernican model of the universe and an enormously influential figure in the history of kinematics and classical mechanicsThe foundation of modern dynamics was set out in Galileo's book Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo ( Dialogue on the two main world systems ) where the notion of inertia was implicit and used.

The city's role as main Austrian trading port and shipbuilding centre was later emphasized with the foundation of the merchant shipping line Austrian Lloyd in 1836, whose headquarters stood at the corner of the Piazza Grande and Sanità.

However, the region's main economic foundation is its great mineral wealth.

After one or two years experience finding room for improvement, it was superseded by the Army Act 1881, which hence formed the foundation and the main portion of the military law of England, containing a proviso saving the right of the crown to make Articles of War, but in such a manner as to render the power in effect a nullity by enacting that no crime made punishable by the act shall be otherwise punishable by such articles.

He was born around the same time as Scrooge and first met him during the Gold Rush of 1886 ( the main effect of this Rush was the foundation of Johannesburg ).

From 1810 to 1815 the house was rebuilt ; the front foundation was altered, a radically different super-structure was built atop the first Violet Banks foundation, and an entirely new main house was constructed.

The exact foundation date is now unknown, but by 1447 Heide was already the main village of Dithmarschen.

The laying of the foundation stone to the left of the main entrance of the Aston Webb building, on 17 May 1899 was the last official public appearance by Queen Victoria.

Theophrastus seems to have carried out still further the grammatical foundation of logic and rhetoric, since in his book on the elements of speech, he distinguished the main parts of speech from the subordinate parts, and also direct expressions ( kuria lexis ) from metaphorical expressions, and dealt with the emotions ( pathe ) of speech.

The first section of the main body of the cathedral was complete by 1924, and on 19 July 1924, the 20th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone, the cathedral was consecrated in the presence of King George V and Queen Mary, and bishops and archbishops from round the globe.

She points out a crack at the base of a door jamb, indicative of one of the building's main problems, its settling foundation.

Henry Tonnies was the main entrepreneur and catalyst for the foundation of the village starting and operating a general goods store, a coal mine, and other businesses, as well as forming a committee for the establishment and building of a Catholic church.

The main portion has a stone foundation, and is held up by the same virgin timber, each in diameter, and running the entire width of the house.

Until the foundation of the city of Ravenstein, Herpen was the main city of this region.

The " Singing for Change " foundation was initially funded by proceeds from Buffett's 1995 concert tour, and provides grants to local charities in three main areas: children and family causes, environmental causes, and causes for disenfranchised groups.

As War Minister, Yamagata pushed through the foundation of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff, which was the main source of Yamagata's political power and that of other military officers through the end of World War I.