Archaeologists suggested that the road's main purpose was to transport local and exotic goods inside and outside the canyon.

Other archaeologists think instead that the main purpose of the road system was a religious one, providing pathways for periodic pilgrimages and facilitating regional gatherings for seasonal ceremonies.

The main purpose of this work is to give a general account of Aristotelian cosmology and metaphysics, but it also has a polemical tone, and it may be directed at rival views within the Peripatetic school.

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.

One of the main units within Samuel is the " History of David's Rise ", the purpose of which is to justify David as the legitimate successor to Saul.

The main purpose of the bridge on a classical guitar is to transfer the vibration from the strings to the soundboard, which vibrates the air inside of the guitar, thereby amplifying the sound produced by the strings.

The CPAN's main purpose is to help programmers locate modules and programs not included in the Perl standard distribution.

Locke also held that the main purpose of men uniting into commonwealths and governments was for the preservation of their property.

The main purpose of these approaches is to deliver a very high dose of chemotherapy to tumor sites without causing overwhelming systemic damage.

The main purpose of these approaches is to deliver a very high dose of chemotherapy to tumour sites without causing overwhelming systemic damage.

In practice, positions within the Central Committee and Politburo are determined before a Party Congress, and the main purpose of the Congress is to announce the party policies and vision for the direction of China in the following few years.

The council's main purpose was to end the Papal schism which had resulted from the confusion following the Avignon Papacy.

He informed them that his main purpose was " to promote the basic concepts of education in a democracy.

Paul's main purpose in writing is to encourage and reassure the Christians there.

The main purpose of the epistle to the Romans is given by Paul in, where he reveals that he is set apart by God for the purpose of preaching the Gospel, which he explains.

The main purpose of illustrated songs was to encourage sheet music sales, and they were highly successful with sales reaching into the millions for a single song.

A fighter's main purpose is to establish air superiority over a battlefield.

Their main purpose in the novel is to show the reader the contrast between the firemen who do as they're told without question and someone like Montag, who formerly took pride in his job, but now realizes how damaging it is to society.

The main purpose of the programme is to attract public and media attention to the unacceptable situation that some 1 billion people continue to suffer from chronic hunger and malnutrition in a time of unprecedented plenty.

Its main purpose is to return the body to soil quickly while minimizing pollution and resource consumption.

The main purpose of the Red and White terror was to destroy the power structure of the opponent, clear and secure the areas governed by the armies since the beginning of the war and the areas seized and occupied by the common units during the conflict.

The main purpose of the bridge on an acoustic guitar is to transfer the vibration from the strings to the soundboard, which vibrates the air inside of the guitar, thereby amplifying the sound produced by the strings.

His main purpose was to produce an economic revival in Spain by abolishing internal custom-houses, throwing open the trade of the Indies and reorganizing the finances along lines that had been established by the French economist Jean Orry.

Their main asset is an abundance of unsaturated fatty acids, so necessary for maintaining the good health of the circulatory system.

It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.

Classical Arminianism, which sees Arminius as the main contributor, and Wesleyan Arminianism, which sees John Wesley as the main contributor, are the two main outlooks on how the system is realistic in detail.

In 1441 Pope Eugene IV merged them into one congregation called " Congregatio Sancti Ambrosii ad Nemus ", made the original house the main seat, and laid down a system of government whereby a general chapter met every three years, elected the priors who stayed in office till the next chapter.

Installers of multi-line business services where outgoing calls from all lines display the company's main number on call display can use ANAC to identify a specific line in the system, even if CID displays every line as " line one ".

Because the original designer had left the company another employee completely redesigned most of the system, ( adding a display snow remover circuit, true 80 / 64 column text mode support, ( with different size letters for TRS-80 and CP / M mode, so that in TRS-80 mode the full screen was also used, not just a 64x16 portion of the 80x25 screen ) with an improved font set ( adding " gray scale " version of the TRS-80 mozaik graphics and many special PETSCII like characters ), and a more flexible and reliable floppy disk controller and keyboard interface plus many other small improvements ), also an enclosure was developed for the main computer system, ( in the form of a 19-inch rack for the Eurocards ) and for two floppy disk drives and the power supply.

The production of antibodies is the main function of the humoral immune system.

In addition, to load a texture, a PCI graphics card must copy it from the system's RAM into the card's framebuffer, whereas an AGP card is capable of reading textures directly from system RAM using the graphics address remapping table, which reapportions main memory as needed for texture storage, allowing the graphics card to access them directly.

The main functions in the field artillery system are:

But as computer main memory in a binary-addressed system is manufactured in sizes that were easily expressed as multiples of 1024, kilobyte, when applied to computer memory, came to be used to mean 1024 bytes instead of 1000.

2009, compared an analysis of blood and organ system data from trials with rats fed three main commercialized genetically modified types of maize which are present in food and feed in the world.

The main alternative to the common law system is the civil law system, which is used in Continental Europe, and most of the rest of the world.

The Pend Oreille river system ( including its main tributaries, the Clark Fork and Flathead rivers ) is also similar in size to the Columbia at their confluence.

Scholars such as Frederick W. Mote argue that the wide drop in numbers reflects an administrative failure to record rather than an actual decrease ; others such as Timothy Brook argue that the Mongols created a system of enserfment among a huge portion of the Chinese populace, causing many to disappear from the census altogether ; other historians like William McNeill and David Morgan argue that the Bubonic Plague was the main factor behind the demographic decline during this period.

The national railroad system, once the country's main mode of transport for freight, has been neglected in favor of road development and now accounts for only about a quarter of freight transport.

Main inland waterways are the Magdalena – Cauca River system, which is navigable for 1, 500 kilometers ; the Atrato, which is navigable for 687 kilometers ; the Orinoco system of more than five navigable rivers, which total more than 4, 000 kilometers of potential navigation ( mainly through Venezuela ); and the Amazonas system, which has four main rivers totaling 3, 000 navigable kilometers ( mainly through Brazil ).

But he urged her to write about it and soon she began her main work explaining her system of Christian healing, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

`` The main bunch is outside, but there are some over there inside the wall ''.

The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

Steele's main business here is to arouse public opinion to the immediate danger of a Stuart Restoration.

The old ideal of the independent entrepreneur is extant -- but so is the recognition that the main chance may be in a corporate bureaucracy.

In the main stream of historical thinking is a group of scholars, H.M. Chadwick, R.H. Hodgkin, Sir Frank Stenton et al. who are in varying degrees sceptical of the native traditions of the conquest but who defend the catastrophic type of invasion suggested by them.

He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.

The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is composed in the form of a triptych, with the two small side panels framing and enclosing the main central episode of the novel.

Krim's main attack is upon the aesthetic and the publishing apparatus of American literary culture in our day.

The main question raised by the incident is how much longer will UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in present terms??

every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main ''.

Most immediately relevant to these episodes in Goa, Katanga and Ghana, as to the Suez-Hungary crisis before them, is the belief that the main theater of the world drama is the underdeveloped region of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

It is vitally important that the new U.S. aid program should encourage all of them, since the main thrust for development must come from the less developed countries themselves.

Stated in its simplest terms, the main job of the Planning Division is to plan for the future of the State of Rhode Island.

The substantial progress being made in ballistic missile technology is rapidly shifting the main threat from manned bombers to missiles.

The main requirement is to be sure the boat is numbered according to the regulations of the state in which the boat will be principally used.

The main set of bars are the `` tappets '' and one tappet is connected to each lever.