Students are approximately equally divided between those who regard vocational preparation as the primary goal of an ideal education and those who chose a general liberal education.

The President said the primary goal of his actions as president ( he used the first person pronoun and explicitly refers to his " official duty ") was preserving the Union:

Throughout his career, Alaric's primary goal was not to undermine the Empire, but to secure for himself a regular and recognized position within the Empire's borders.

The overall goal of the Acid Rain Program established by the Act is to achieve significant environmental and public health benefits through reductions in emissions of sulfur dioxide ( SO < sub > 2 </ sub >) and nitrogen oxides ( NO < sub > x </ sub >), the primary causes of acid rain.

Although it is involved in " brown-water " ( riverine and coastal ) operations, the navy's primary goal has been to become an effective " blue-water " navy, able to project power on the high seas.

According to Nate Silver, the advent of this playoff series, and especially of the wild card, has caused teams to focus more on " getting to the playoffs " rather than " winning the pennant " as the primary goal of the regular season.

The primary goal of bioinformatics is to increase the understanding of biological processes.

The primary goal of these experiments was to measure the angular scale of the first acoustic peak, for which COBE did not have sufficient resolution.

As security is not necessarily the primary goal of most computer applications, designing a program with security in mind often imposes restrictions on that program's behavior.

Moksha, although the ultimate goal, is emphasized more in the last two stages of life, while artha and kama are considered primary only during Grihastha.

The primary goal of these Great Synods was to verify and confirm the fundamental beliefs of the Church as truth, and to remove as heresy any false teachings that would threaten the Church.

The primary purposes of tackling is to disposses an opponent of the ball, to stop the player from gaining ground towards goal or to stop them from carrying out what they intend.

The SED set a primary goal of ridding the GDR of all traces of the fascist regime, by ensuring democratic elections and the protection of individual liberties in the building up socialism.

Those who reload with the primary goal of maximizing accuracy or terminal performance may end up paying more per reloaded round than for commercial ammunition — this is especially true for military calibers which are commonly available as surplus.

Reloaders who reload with the primary goal of saving money on ammunition, however, can make a few tradeoffs to realize significant cost savings with a minimal sacrifice in quality.

Although profit was not a primary goal, their finances improved and the enterprise was profitable, but not sufficient to carry out their planned expansions.

While in European classical music elements of interpretation, ornamentation and accompaniment are sometimes left to the performer's discretion, the performer's primary goal is to play a composition as it was written.

In 1942, Hitler shifted his primary goal from an immediate victory in the East, to the more long-term goal of securing the southern Soviet Union to conquer oil fields vital to a long-term German war effort.

Semi-contact is a fighting discipline where two fighters fight with the primary goal of scoring greater points using controlled legal techniques with speed and focus.

A primary goal of psychoanalysis is to bring the drives of the id into consciousness, allowing them to be met directly and thus reducing the patient's reliance on ego defenses.

The primary goal of the project was to develop and launch two spacecraft sequentially to the near vicinity of the planet Venus, receive communications from the spacecraft and to perform radiometric temperature measurements of the planet.

Because Marxism-Leninism has historically only been the state ideology of countries who were economically undeveloped prior to socialist revolution ( or whose economies were nearly obliterated by war, such as the German Democratic Republic ), the primary goal before achieving full communism was the development of socialism in itself.

The primary goal of the coalition forces is to monitor, inspect, board and stop suspected shipments from entering the Horn of Africa region.

Matsumoto has said his primary design goal was to make a language which he himself enjoyed using, by minimizing programmer work and possible confusion.

Agar or agar-agar is a gelatinous substance derived by boiling from a polysaccharide in red algae, where it accumulates in the cell walls of agarophyte and serves as the primary structural support for the algae's cell walls.

In typical geological investigations, geologists use primary information related to petrology ( the study of rocks ), stratigraphy ( the study of sedimentary layers ), and structural geology ( the study of positions of rock units and their deformation ).

The primary reason for this is that the entire intracellular machinery ( enzymes, structural proteins, etc.

The highly structural and organized cortex, or middle layer of the hair, is the primary source of mechanical strength and water uptake.

The primary structural advantage of concrete blocks in comparison to smaller clay-based bricks is that a CMU wall can be reinforced by filling the block voids with concrete with or without steel rebar.

The primary structure of peptides and proteins refers to the linear sequence of its amino acid structural units.

The primary reason many early planes were biplanes was that the two-wing configuration had a structural advantage over monoplanes, since both wings formed a Pratt truss, which was immensely strong.

Its primary purpose is to examine the aerodynamic characteristics and flow-field structural details of free-flying aeroballistic models.

The shaft is the primary structural element of the arrow, to which the other components are attached.

The peptidoglycan layer is important for cell wall structural integrity, especially in Gram-positive organisms, being the outermost and primary component of the wall.

More attention should be paid, it is argued, on intervention policies upstream, at the primary food production and processing stages, to influence nutritional quality and the structural determinants of food choice, including ; availability, accessibility and price.

Pectin ( from Greek πηκτικός – pektikos, " congealed, curdled ") is a structural heteropolysaccharide contained in the primary cell walls of terrestrial plants.

Proof theory is important in philosophical logic, where the primary interest is in the idea of a proof-theoretic semantics, an idea which depends upon technical ideas in structural proof theory to be feasible.

Since structural prediction of large molecules at an atomic level is largely intractable problem, some biologists introduced ways to predict 3D structure at a primary sequence level.

There are two primary forms of intangibles-legal intangibles ( such as trade secrets ( e. g., customer lists ), copyrights, patents, and trademarks ) and competitive intangibles ( such as knowledge activities ( know-how, knowledge ), collaboration activities, leverage activities, and structural activities ).

It is further differentiated by closely related terms such as primary balance and structural balance ( also known as cyclically-adjusted balance ) of the general government.

Although its primary purpose is structural, newels have long been adorned with decorative trim and designed with different architectural styles.

Still, congenital conditions are often classified in a structural basis, organized when possible by primary organ system affected.

In both these methods a primary advantage of the material is that it is resistant to a fire within a room and so can assist in reducing or eliminating structural damage or destruction provided the fire is promptly extinguished.

DFD has several fire trucks stationed throughout the resort property and has the capability to put out minor structural fires ; however, its primary purpose is fire prevention and investigation.

Three primary categories of rope rescue exist: high angle urban / structural, wilderness / mountain rescue, and cave rescue.

One such project is the AASHO Road Test, which is a primary source of data used when considering transport policies and the structural design of roads.

Like skeletal muscle, the primary structural proteins of cardiac muscle are actin and myosin.

It is the longest arch bridge in the world at this time, with an overall length of 6, 442 feet ( 1, 964 m ); the first use of true steel as a primary structural material in a major bridge project ; the first built using cantilever support methods exclusively ; and the first major project to make use of pneumatic caissons.