George Wittkowsky argued that Swift ’ s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.

The main target cells of these derivaties are neutrophil granulocytes and monocytes as well.

She had been on the island of Utøya hours before the massacre there to give a speech to the AUF camp ; Breivik stated that he originally intended for Brundtland to be the main target of the attack, but he had been delayed while travelling from Oslo.

Breivik said that while Brundtland had been his main target, he had still planned to massacre everyone else on the island.

On October 1, 2004, one of the main dissenting voices to Émile Lahoud's term extension, the newly resigned Druze ex-minister Marwan Hamadeh was the target of a car bomb attack as his vehicle slowed to enter his Beirut home.

In this case, the acquiring company simply hires the staff of the target private company, thereby acquiring its talent ( if that is its main asset and appeal ).

Antibodies are protein components of an adaptive immune system whose main function is to bind antigens, or foreign substances in the body, and target them for destruction.

The next line, which Vauban usually placed at about 600 meters from the target, would contain the main batteries of heavy cannons so that they could hit the target without being vulnerable themselves.

He then notes that it is ridiculous and weird that there are intensities of treatment by the scientists and press, in particular, that he was " much less badly treated ," when in fact he had been the main target of US press, specifically The New York Times, where his obituary ten years later would mock deconstruction and not consider Jacques Derrida, the person, in the face of those grieving his death.

Denver tight end Riley Odoms was his main target, with 37 receptions for 429 yards.

Simms ' main target was tight end Mark Bavaro, who caught 66 passes for 1, 001 yards and 4 touchdowns.

Foxes seem to prefer the puffin over other birds, making the bird a main target.

A white paper produced by the Royal Air Force for the British government in 1961 claimed that the RAF's nuclear force was capable of destroying key Soviet cities such as Moscow and Kiev before bomber aircraft from the United States ' Strategic Air Command had entered Soviet airspace, " taking into account Bomber Command ’ s ability to be on target in the first wave several hours in advance of the main SAC force operating from bases in the United States .".

Polisario made the weak Mauritanian army its main target, and after a bold raid on the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott ( where a gunshot killed El-Ouali, the first president of the SADR ), Mauritania succumbed to internal unrest.

Thin target sources generally provide significantly lower quantities of radioactive ions than thick target sources and this is their main drawback.

* A two-channel microwave radiometer of the crystal video type operating in the standard Dicke mode of chopping between the main antenna, pointed at the target, and a reference horn pointed at cold space.

During the Battle of Chattanooga in November, under Grant's overall command, Sherman quickly took his assigned target of Billy Goat Hill at the north end of Missionary Ridge, only to discover that it was not part of the ridge at all, but rather a detached spur separated from the main spine by a rock-strewn ravine.

For example if the main target program is written in COBOL but calls assembly language subroutines and PL / 1 subroutines, the debugger may have to dynamically switch modes to accommodate the changes in language as they occur.

The main target of the inhabitants of Zaporizhian Sich who called themselves " Cossacks " were rich settlements at the Black Sea shores of Ottoman Empire and Crimean Khanate.

The main target on their hit list was the renowned postcard artist Donald McGill.

The DMA command is issued by specifying a pair of a local address and a remote address: for example when a SPE program issues a put DMA command, it specifies an address of its own local memory as the source and a virtual memory address ( pointing to either the main memory or the local memory of another SPE ) as the target, together with a block size.

# Layer III, the External Pyramidal layer, contains predominantly small and medium-size pyramidal neurons, as well as non-pyramidal neurons with vertically oriented intracortical axons ; layers I through III are the main target of interhemispheric corticocortical afferents, and layer III is the principal source of corticocortical efferents.

His main defense strategy during the prosecution was to attack the credibility of Giacalone's witnesses by discussing their crimes committed before their turning states '.

The next significant government prosecution was the trial of the eight main Gunpowder Plot conspirators in Westminster Hall.

The trial lasted five months: Rawson Macharia, the main prosecution witness, turned out to have perjured himself ; the judge — who had only recently been awarded an unusually large pension, and who maintained secret contact with the then colonial Governor of Kenya Evelyn Baring during the trial — was openly hostile to the defendants ' cause.

Later appeals made by Williams included arguments that a main prosecution witness had perjured himself and that the Senator had been a victim of entrapment.

His defence had looked strong as eye witnesses refused to testify due to fear of reprisals, when Alison retracted her testimony and became the prosecution's main witness ; this not only removed Bronson's alibi but also gave the prosecution all the evidence needed to win the case.

His testimony was of great importance to the prosecution in bolstering their contention that Milošević was the main actor in the " joint criminal enterprise " in Croatia.

Chung and together with another former member were the main prosecution witnesses.

Tony Soprano made Moltisanti his main contact in his criminal dealings to insulate himself from prosecution.

However, after the death of the main prosecution witness, all charges were dropped against Genovese.

On September 17, RCMP investigators re-entered the mine with a draeger team to gather evidence for criminal prosecution, and managed to enter the " southwest main " shaft where the remaining miners ' bodies were located and the explosion's suspected epicentre.

The main plank of the prosecution case was " guilty knowledge "; in finding the body quickly despite poor conditions, Mitchell demonstrated that he already knew where it was.

The main consequence of the unanimous ruling in Weeks was that in a federal prosecution, the Fourth Amendment prohibited the use of evidence obtained by an illegal search and seizure.

But five years after the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial, when Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of 270 counts of murder, he cast doubt upon the reliability of the main prosecution witness, Tony Gauci.

The search and examination phases constitute the main part of the prosecution of a patent application leading to grant or refusal.

Earlier, sitting in the Fourth Court, Magistrate Cardenas-Ragoonanan cited several inconsistencies in the prosecution ’ s case, the most crucial being that the evidence of its main witness was “ unreliable and inconsistent .”

The Commonwealth's main witness was Drews ' son-in-law, but he was only one of thirty-six witnesses called by the prosecution.

According to The Sunday Times of 23 October 2005, Lord Fraser allegedly cast doubt upon the reliability of the main prosecution witness, Tony Gauci.

The cultivation and prosecution of the coffee, the production of flour and the textile factory are their main industrial activities.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

Fleischman with eight was to patrol the Leyte Gulf area, with his main task to get any kamikaze before they got to the ships.

Jean Bodin, writing in the sixteenth century, may have been the seminal thinker, but it was the vastly influential John Austin who set out the main lines of the concept as now understood.

He was ghost writer for Babe Ruth, whose main talent for literary composition was the signing of his autograph.

And it was his main present!!

The half-intensity diameter of the antenna beam was about 9', and the angle subtended by the moon included the entire main beam and part of the first side lobes.

The half-intensity diameter of the main lobe of the antenna was about 18'.5, and the brightness temperature was reduced by assuming a Gaussian shape for the antenna beam and a uniformly bright disk for the moon.

The issue was acute because the exiled Polish Government in London, supported in the main by Britain, was still competing with the new Lublin Government formed behind the Red Army.

But to return to the main line of our inquiry, it is doubtful that Utopia is still widely read because More was medieval or even because he was a martyr -- indeed, it is likely that these days many who read Utopia with interest do not even know that its author was a martyr.

The editor's main criticism of the trial was the haste with which it was conducted.

Like a wise gardener, Hardy pruned away the Shakespearian sonnets and songs, and the elements of meter and poetic diction to which his personal style was not suited, and let the main stock of his talent flourish.

Vermont's main railroad line was prostrate.

Because of this diversionary attack the main group that had been pinned down on the hill was able to surge forward again.

Since then he had worked at this and that, though some said his main interest was gambling.

At present the doctor's main concern was in seeing to it that Japanese salvage firms were not permitted to operate on the hulks of warships sunk too close inshore, because the work involved setting off nerve-shattering blasts at all hours.

He'd have to think, but the main thing, the imperative necessity, was to leave before Sam Bentley was up and about, and before Millie detained him with sympathy.

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.