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.

Spain had set up a trade monopoly in the Caribbean, and their primary objective was to protect this, which they did by barring the islands from trading with any foreign ships.

The objective is reportedly to protect another parts of US National Missile Defense from long-range missile strikes from Iran and North Korea, but Czech PM Mirek Topolánek said the main reason is to avoid Russian influence and strengthen ties to US.

The second occupation was probably connected with Antoninus ' undertakings to protect the Votadini or his pride in enlarging the empire, since the retreat to the Hadrianic frontier occurred not long after his death when a more objective strategic assessment of the benefits of the Antonine Wall could be made.

Objectivism views government as " the means of placing the retaliatory use of physical force under objective control — i. e., under objectively defined laws ;" thus, government is both legitimate and critically important in order to protect individual rights.

The objective of the Emperor may have been to protect his young son against his own younger brother, who was a serious pretendent to the throne, but strongly exerting his personal power after his retirement he set up in effect the system and definitively weakened the regency.

The UN and French forces took military action, with the stated objective to protect their forces and civilians.

Of its three regiments, one was deployed to protect the northern flank, another to attack Germeter, and the third to capture Schmidt, the main objective.

* Demolition-One team must protect an objective from the other team, which must destroy the objective.

The objective is to protect human health and the environment while limiting the use of water in sanitation systems for hand ( and anal ) washing only and recycling nutrients to help reduce the need for synthetic fertilizers in agriculture.

What this eventual unintended historical outcome does mean is that the prison system becomes a system designed to produce prisons for ' ever ', making it impossible for the prison to be removed from society maximising the criminal justice system's survival, making sure of the objective that the criminals themselves ' police ' and protect the whole criminal justice system.

That campaign, and a second one in 1791 led by territorial Governor Arthur St. Clair, both failed in the objective of pacifying the Native Americans, and Knox was widely blamed for the failure to protect the frontier.

* The objective of the buyer of a collar is to protect against rising interest rates ( while agreeing to give up some of the benefit from lower interest rates ).

* The objective is to protect the bank from falling interest rates.

" Their objective seems to be to run an opinion journalism and protect special interests rather than ensure a professional and fair reporting.

The announced objective was to protect most of Europe from long-range missile strikes from Iran.

The objective is to protect customers and investors through conduct of business rules and other measures.

The preamble of the act states that the objective of Canadian Health Care policy is " that continued access to quality health care without financial or other barriers will be critical to maintaining and improving the health and well-being of Canadians. The primary objective of the Act is " to protect, promote and restore the physical and mental well-being of residents of Canada and to facilitate reasonable access to health services without financial or other barriers.

A cover slip may be placed on top to protect the specimen and the microscope's objective and to keep the specimen still and pressed flat.

" The Ministry of Justice's objective for prisons seeks " Effective execution of the sentences of the courts so as to reduce re-offending and protect the public ".

This requires that the team protect their flag carrier very well from enemies in order to complete their objective.

The Environment Agency's stated purpose is, " to protect or enhance the environment, taken as a whole " so as to promote " the objective of achieving sustainable development " ( taken from the Environment Act 1995, section 4 ).

China also achieved another strategic objective of demonstrating to its Cold War adversary, the Soviet Union, that they were unable to protect their new Vietnamese ally.