His objective was, essentially, to repair those aspects of orthodox astronomy responsible for its deficiencies in achieving these ends.

The impression was unmistakable that, whatever one may choose to call it, natural law is a functioning generality with a certain objective existence.

At these times he felt a kind of pain in his upper chest, but it was an objective pain, in no way different from others in intensity and not different in kind ; ;

The objective behind this action was to place in one agency the responsibility for the management, assignment, and replacement of all vehicles.

In dealing with these frequencies, the objective listed first above -- provision of service to all listeners -- was predominant ; ;

In this case, then, the military objective was accomplished with an epidemic agent solely through the results secured in the initial attack.

An objective scale was developed for rating school neighborhoods from these data.

To free the factors of production was a major objective of the rising bourgeoisie, and this objective required that governmental authority -- administrative officials and judges -- be limited as precisely and explicitly as possible ; ;

The objective of the study was to determine the opinions and practices of small firms selling to defense programs.

As was noted earlier, it is important that in valid, objective study of this sort of communication, the interested sitter should be separated from the sensitive.

It is true, of course, that the end or objective of this action was different.

Harvey said his objective was to create a better public image for welfare ''.

The campaign's objective was to capture Richmond by moving the Army of the Potomac by boat to the peninsula and then overland to the Confederate capital.

Lincoln refused to allow any negotiation with the Confederacy as a coequal ; his sole objective was an agreement to end the fighting and the meetings produced no results.

According to Hartshorne people do not experience subjective ( or personal ) immortality in the afterlife, but they do have objective immortality because their experiences live on forever in God, who contains all that was.

The main objective of the mission, however, was to secure the return of Edward ; but this failed, mainly because Henry III's relations with the Hungarians were strained, and the emperor was unable or unwilling to help Ealdred.

The second lunar excursion's primary objective was to visit Stone Mountain to climb up the slope of about 20 degrees to reach a cluster of five craters known as " Cinco Craters ".

Its design was modeled after English football stadiums with the objective being to give fans a closer view of the pitch.

The objective of the event was to demonstrate the durability of the V8 Vantage across hazardous terrain – and also to publicise the car in China.

This requires developing new faculties of objective spiritual perception, which Steiner maintained was possible for humanity today.

Abd ar-Rahman's next objective was to squash the longstanding rebellion of Ibn Hafsun.

Later still, abstraction was manifest in more purely formal terms, such as color, freedom from objective context, and a reduction of form to basic geometric designs.

The early objective of the Shiv Sena was to ensure job security for Maharashtrians competing against immigrants from southern India, Gujaratis and Marwaris.

Supporters consider cheerleading, as a whole, a sport, citing the heavy use of athletic talents while critics do not see it as deserving of that status since sport implies a competition among squads and not all squads compete, along with subjectivity of competitions where-as with gymnastics, diving, and figure skating-scores are assessed based on human judgment and not an objective goal or measurement of time.

Mao Zedong consistently used Sun Wukong as a role model, and often spoke about the good example of the Monkey King, citing " his fearlessness in thinking, doing work, striving for the objective and extricating China from poverty ".

The former President of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milošević, claimed during his trial in the Hague, that Kinkel's policy was based on a long-standing objective of German foreign policy and the German liberal party in particular to erase Serbia from the map, citing statements by Kinkel that Germany had to accomplish in Yugoslavia what it had " failed to accomplish twice before ," and that " the Serbs should be brought to their knees ".

The symmetry principle addresses the problem that the historian is tempted to explain the success of successful theories by referring to their " objective truth ", or inherent " technical superiority ", whereas s / he is more likely to put forward sociological explanations ( citing political influence or economic reasons ) only in the case of failures.

Many historians regard Alexander's memoirs as one of the most objective and sharpest sources produced by a Civil War combatant.

The objective of the raid was discussed by Churchill in his war memoirs:

The memoirs provide not only a detailed personal account of Ashraf Dehghani's inner struggles while in prison, but also a description of the broader political struggles and objective conditions required for any revolutionary party to survive outside and inside of prison.

In one sequence, Marker repeats the same collection of shots three times with different commentary: the first one praising the Soviet Union, the second denouncing it, and the third taking an objective stance.

The Russian armies were separated, defeated and pushed back, which forced Lenin and the Soviet leadership to abandon for the time being their strategic objective of linking up with the German and other European revolution-minded comrades ( Lenin's hope of generating support for the Red Army in Poland had already failed to materialize ).

Two weeks after Soviet armies had entered the Baltic states, Berlin requested Finland to permit the transit of German troops, followed five weeks thereafter by Hitler's issuance of a secret directive " to take up the Russian problem, to think about war preparations ," a war whose objective would include establishment of a Baltic confederation.

The Soviet forces did not accomplish their objective of the total conquest of Finland but conquered sufficient territory along Lake Ladoga, Petsamo and Salla.

Under orders from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, SAC was told its primary objective was bombing targets in order to damage or destroy Soviet ability to deliver nuclear weapons, its secondary objective was stopping Soviet advances into Western Europe, and its tertiary objective was the same as before, destroying Soviet industrial capacity.

Evidence from defectors like Oleg Gordievsky and files from the Soviet archives show that keeping Kekkonen in power was indeed the main objective of the Soviet Union in its relations with Finland.

His objective was to prevent a war and safeguard Pakistan's interests, though he feared an Indian invasion of West Pakistan that would lead to Indian domination of the sub-continent and strengthen the position of the Soviet Union.

Finland's main objective was to regain territory lost to the Soviet Union in the Winter War.

He was doomed to defeat because his ideas were incorrect and failed to conform to objective conditions, as well as the needs and interests of the Soviet people.

The objective of Zhang's 21, 800 + strong force, was to cross the Yellow River, to expand the communist base west of Shaanxi, and to link up with forces from the Soviet Union or with the Xinjiang warlord Sheng Shicai, who was an ally of the communists and the Soviet Union.

The main objective of the United States and Great Britain was to ensure full cooperation and assistance from the Soviet Union for their war policies.

The Soviet objective was to advance to the city of Oulu, effectively cutting Finland in half.

* Soviet objective to cut Finland in half across the Oulu region-while appearing reasonable on a map, this was inherently unrealistic, as the region was mostly forested marshland, with its road network consisting mainly of logging trails.

The major objective of this plan was to lead the Germans to believe that the invasion of northwestern Europe would come later than was actually planned, and to threaten attacks at other locations than the true objective, including the Pas de Calais, the Balkans, southern France, Norway, and Soviet attacks in Bulgaria and northern Norway.