The main objective of the ATS is to ensure < cite > in the interests of all humankind that Antarctica shall continue forever to be used exclusively for peaceful purposes and shall not become the scene or object of international discord </ cite >.

Traces of this hidden agenda of the city's history is found in the 18th century guidebooks to Aachen as well as to the other spas ; the main indication for visiting patients, ironically, was syphilis ; only by the end of the 19th century had rheuma become the most important object of cures at Aachen and Burtscheid.

For this reason, editors choose cutaway shots related to the main action, such as another action or object in the same location.

The main object of the council was twofold, although there were other issues that were also discussed:

Finsler geometry has the Finsler manifold as the main object of study.

In abstract algebra, field extensions are the main object of study in field theory.

The artwork contains a wire object representing the channel's interior with a blown glass object representing the main cavity of the channel structure.

Together with other smaller islands in the River Niger, it was the main object of a territorial dispute between Niger and Benin, which had begun when the two entities were still under French rule.

Object databases ' main usage is in object oriented areas.

Since the main object of the king in holding a national assembly was to collect money, the Church could not be left out and so they came to Parliament.

By 1566, Aldus Manutius the Younger was able to state that the main object of punctuation was the clarification of syntax.

The main additions compared to the older OOP extensions were a reference-based object model, virtual constructors and destructors, and properties.

The main advantage of reference counting over tracing garbage collection is that objects are reclaimed as soon as they can no longer be referenced, and in an incremental fashion, without long pauses for collection cycles and with clearly defined lifetime of every object.

* A rapid dolly shot to bring a far-off object suddenly into the center of the shot or to pull back from the main focal object to show what is happening around the perimeter ( sometimes called " push-pull ");

But Chatham could not brook the thought of a step which implied submission to the " natural enemy " whom it had been the main object of his life to humble, and he declaimed for a considerable time, though with diminished vigour, against the motion.

The main criterion for deciding whether an object originated at Rome and traveled by influence to the Etruscans, or descended to the Romans from the Etruscans, is date.

In linguistics, a noun is a member of a large, open lexical category whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition.

Both the measuring instrument and the object being measured should be at room temperature for an accurate measurement ; dirt, abuse, and operator skill are the main sources of error.

The foreign policy of Denis, Afonso IV and Pedro I had been, as in rule, successful in its main object, the preservation of peace with the Christian kingdoms of Iberia ; in consequence, the Portuguese had advanced in prosperity and culture.

Kripke's main propositions in Naming and Necessity concerning proper names are that the meaning of a name simply is the object it refers to and that a name's referent is determined by a causal link between some sort of " baptism " and the utterance of the name.

: It is my opinion that the main object of ethnological collections should be the dissemination of the fact that civilization is not something absolute, but that it is relative, and that our ideas and conceptions are true only so far as our civilization goes.

In both cases, the front or main side of the object is the same.

* The novel is mentioned and referenced by some of the other characters in the 2011 movie The Moth Diaries ; Carmilla also seems to have inspired the main antagonist Ernessa, played by Lily Cole.

The Church Father Epiphanius ( writing in the 4th century CE ) seems to make a distinction between two main groups within the Essenes: " Of those that came before his an Ossaean prophet time and during it, the Ossaeans and the Nazarean .".

Its main export seems to be television programs.

One main reason for low sales seems to have been the need to buy an extra 16 KB RAM-extension which almost doubled the ACE's price.

An extended, structurally rigid, highly anisotropic shape seems to be the main criterion for liquid crystalline behavior, and as a result many liquid crystalline materials are based on benzene rings.

Cloak's partner, Dagger seems to be the Living Light's main Avatar.

The concept of a continuity is not the same as " dimension " or " universe "; for example, characters like Mephisto and Dormammu hail from alternative dimensions and Galactus from another universe, but they all nevertheless belong to the Earth-616 continuity ( where all the dimensions and universes seems to be connected to the same main timeline ).

The main interface with computers seems to be the screen, and the references to “ punching up ” a file suggest a touchscreen.

Starfleet has been shown to handle diplomatic, scientific, and defense missions, although their main mandate seems to be peaceful exploration in the search of sentient life, as declared in the mission statements for different incarnations of the USS Enterprise.

DC-SIGN, a non-specific receptor for foreign material on dendritic cells, seems to be the main point of entry.

However, the main Arabic text seems to have been written by an earlier author sometime between the early 9th and late 10th centuries CE.

This pub striptease seems in the main to have evolved from topless go-go dancing.

Despite the fact that SRY seems to be the main gene in determining male characteristics, it requires the action of multiple genes to develop testes.

However, similar naked figures appear elsewhere in the lower border where there seems to be no connection at all with the main action.

Desrochers and Hoffbauer go on to conclude that it seems hard to deny that using an alarmist tone and emotional appeal were the main lessons that the present generation of environmentalists learned from Ehrlich's success.

Each region seems to have developed its own standards following the main monastery of the region ( i. e. Merovingian script, Laon script, Luxeuil script, Visigothic script, Beneventan script ), which are mostly cursive and hardly readable.

They are based on highly abstract theories – venerable, academic inventions, half misunderstood by those who are applying them today, and based on assumptions which are contrary to the facts … Our main task, therefore, will be to confirm the reader ’ s instinct that what seems sensible is sensible, and what seems nonsense is nonsense.

A different transformation raised embedded subjects into main clause subject position in sentences such as " John seems to have gone "; and yet a third reordered arguments in the dative alternation.

While Plutarch singles out the “ order of exclusive society ” that the lovers surrounded themselves with – a society with a specifically defined and clear understanding of the hierarchies of power as determined by birth and status – Shakespeare ’ s play seems more preoccupied with the power dynamics of pleasure as a main theme throughout the play.

The two characters resemble each other both in appearance and behavior though their main common point seems to be that they are extremely competitive and neither of them can accept the idea of someone else being superior or equal to them.

Their main difference seems to be their way of life.

The two main conclusions of the experiment are that people work harder when their work seems more meaningful, and that people underestimate the relationship between meaning and motivation.

The main point seems to be that when Enlil granted eternal life it was a unique gift.