The damage caused by Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia in 1864 was limited to a swath, but neither Lincoln nor his commanders saw destruction as the main goal, but rather defeat of the Confederate armies.

Even though scientific research is not their main goal, many amateur astronomers make a contribution to astronomy by monitoring variable stars, tracking asteroids and discovering transient objects, such as comets.

Scientific research is most often not the main goal for many amateur astronomers, unlike professional astronomy.

Absalon's main political goal was to free Denmark from entanglements with the Holy Roman Empire.

In reality, this goal was divided into three main efforts — to prepare for future invasion, to seek revenge against Persia, and to organize a means of dividing spoils of war.

When the trade association began, it had seven members and its main goal was to eliminate all duties and restrictions on the majority of their trade within 12 years.

( Chapter 1 is the first of three important moments in Joshua marked with major speeches and reflections by the main characters ; here first God and then Joshua make speeches about the goal of conquest of the Promised Land ; at chapter 12, Joshua looks back on the conquest ; and at chapter 23 Joshua gives a speech about what must be done if Israel is to live in peace in the land ).

This commercial route was the main goal of Danish invaders in France.

The main goal of the game is to rescue Bub and Bob's girlfriends from big wind-up toasters, among other enemies.

Greek trade networks spread throughout the Mediterranean region, while Roman trade expanded with the main goal of directing tribute from the colonized areas towards the Roman metropole.

He argues that both promiscuity and sexual abstinence are unnatural, and that the main goal of human sexuality is procreation.

The study of these complex linkages is the main goal of complex systems theory.

Venter writes that his main goal was always to accelerate science and thereby discovery, and he only sought help from the corporate world when he couldn't find funding in the public sector.

Conciliation differs from mediation in that the main goal is to conciliate, most of the time by seeking concessions.

Providing isolation is the main goal of concurrency control.

Providing isolation is the main goal of concurrency control.

Dylan's main design goal is to be a dynamic language well-suited for developing commercial software.

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

The main goal is the creation of jobs by creating incentives for private investments.

The FBI's main goal is to protect and defend the United States, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners.

Nationalism had become a " civic religion " among the Finns by the end of the 19th century, but their main goal, particularly during the first period of Russification and the general strike in 1905, was a return to the autonomy of 1809-1898, not independence.

In domestic policy the main goal of the Vaasa Senate was to return the right to power in Finland.

The Greens founded the first international chapter of a German political party in the U. S. on April 13, 2008 at the Goethe-Institut in Washington D. C. Its main goal is " to provide a platform for politically active and green-oriented German citizens, in and beyond Washington D. C., to discuss and actively participate in German Green politics.

She says their main goal was rent seeking, that is, to shift money to the membership at the expense of the entire economy.

While " glasnost " is associated with freedom of speech, the main goal of this policy was to make the country's management transparent and open to debate, thus circumventing the narrow circle of apparatchiks who previously exercised complete control of the economy.

The victorious opposition celebrated by holding a motorcade on the main streets of Kuala Lumpur with supporters holding up brooms as a signal of its intention to make sweeping changes.

A broad, sweeping concrete staircase leads to the main floor of the Beaux-Arts classical structure.

Immediately he was accused by the Church and by conservatives of being a communist, but in the electoral match of December 20, 1962, Bosch obtained a sweeping triumph over his main oppositor Viriato Fiallo of the National Civic Union, in what is acknowledged to be the first free election in the country's history.

A sweeping shot of the town's main street is shown.

After Nantwich basin, a long sweeping embankment incorporating an aqueduct carries the canal across the main A534 Nantwich-Chester road.

Even further north the range slopes up into the towering main crest of the San Gabriels, a sweeping arc-shaped massif in length that includes most of the highest peaks in the range: Waterman Mountain, at ; Mount Islip, at, Mount Baden-Powell, at, Pine Mountain, at, and finally Mount San Antonio, the highest peak in the range at.

A main fixture of the campus, The Bentley Library, underwent a sweeping renovation in 2006 during which time the school's logo was changed to showcase the clock tower that sits atop the building.

In addition to reinforcing the sense of the narrator as reliable ( and thus of the story as true ), the main advantage of this mode is that it is eminently suited to telling huge, sweeping, epic stories, and / or complicated stories involving numerous characters.

Each Royal Caribbean ship includes a top-of-ship lounge called the Viking Crown Lounge offering sweeping panoramic views, onboard rock climbing walls, bars, lounges, spas, gyms, a main dining room and alternative dining venues.

He could have had others to look after the details -- they have to be looked after, but few attend to sweeping up, and that ’ s what Stewart did .” In 1917, the New York Sun newspaper bought Stewart ’ s Marble Palace for its main offices.

The main circuit, normally raced in a clockwise direction, is 5. 543 kilometres long, and is noted for its sweeping corners and wide straights.

This is clearly apparent in the main foyer and the sweeping outer facade.

The river makes a sweeping right-hand turn at Jawbone Ridge prior to joining forces with the main stem of the Tuolumne River.

The Angelicum is the most popular landmark visited by local folks every Christmas because of the fabulous display of Christmas lights that decorate each inch of the Lizares Mansion – its oldest building set within a sweeping lawn of green grass – the main feature of the panoramic view of the school.

However, when the radar is sweeping a large volume of space for targets, it is likely that the main lobe will repeatedly be pointing at the RWR.

:: We left the town, fleeing this living picture of Sodom, with incessant fear lest the raging waters of the lake overtake us, which were at the moment invading the main part of the town, sweeping away everything they encountered.

The main German force would be on the right wing, sweeping through neutral Belgium and then into France, descending on Paris and executing a massive envelopment manoeuvre which would trap the French army between the two German forces and lead to its rapid annihilation.

Perched on a hilltop site, with uninterrupted views across the whole of Acapulco Bay, the main living quarters are surmounted by a large open terrace with spectacular views of the beach and bay, encircled by a " sky moat " which snakes around its edge ; the terrace is itself topped by a huge, sweeping semi-circular angled awning made of cast, reinforced concrete.

The galleries of the main chapel now form part of the shop, with a sweeping staircase in the centre linking the two floors.