Moreover the Hellanodikai, who manage the games at Olympia, decided that they were so: for when Alexander wished to contend in the games and had descended for this purpose into the arena, the Hellenes who were to run against him tried to exclude him, saying that the contest was not for Barbarians to contend in but for Hellenes: since however Alexander proved that he was of Argos, he was judged to be a Hellene, and when he entered the contest of the foot-race his lot came out with that of the first.

First owned and published by Alexander Macmillan, Nature was similar to its predecessors in its attempt to “ provide cultivated readers with an accessible forum for reading about advances in scientific knowledge .” Janet Browne has proposed that “ far more than any other science journal of the period, Nature was conceived, born, and raised to serve polemic purpose .” Many of the early editions of Nature consisted of articles written by members of a group that called itself the X Club, a group of scientists known for having liberal, progressive, and somewhat controversial scientific beliefs relative to the time period.

He described Alexander as having a character " made up of lying, trickery, perjury, and malice ; was facile, audacious, venturesome, diligent in the execution of its schemes, plausible, convincing, masking as good, and wearing an appearance absolutely opposite to its purpose.

Henry Poston, John Andrews, William Alexander and James Holbert were appointed commissioners to locate the county seat, and on September 22, 1822, D. Murphy donated of land for that purpose which the county court accepted on February 27, 1823.

Alexander had attempted to use Amun for this purpose, but he was more prominent in Upper Egypt, which was not so popular with those in Lower Egypt, where the Greeks had stronger influence.

Alexander McKenzie, took an interest in the gold rush and secured the appointment of Arthur Noyes as the federal district judge for the Nome region for the purpose of taking control of gold placer mines in Nome.

Lanfranc, during a visit which he paid the pope for the purpose of receiving his pallium, obtained an order from Alexander that the disputed points should be settled by a council of the English Church.

According to Alexander H. Leighton, " morale is the capacity of a group of people to pull together persistently and consistently in pursuit of a common purpose ".

Other modern hallucinogens that some attempt to use for a similar purpose are ( D )- methorphan, LSD-25, substituted phenethylamines, substituted tryptamines, and substituted amphetamines such as those listed in the books PiHKAL and TiHKAL by Dr. Alexander Shulgin, a former analytical organic chemist.

The American Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization ( AAAIMH ) was an organization founded in 1970 by Dr. Thomas Szasz, George Alexander, and Erving Goffman for the purpose of abolishing involuntary psychiatric intervention, particularly involuntary commitment, against individuals.

The NMAI was initially housed in lower Manhattan at the Alexander Hamilton U. S. Custom House, which was refurbished for this purpose and remains an exhibition site ; its building on the Mall in Washington, DC opened in 2004.

Having declared himself against Cadalus, the new regent at the Council of Augsburg, ( October 1062 ), secured the appointment of an envoy to be sent to Rome for the purpose of investigating charges of simony against Alexander II.

He also served as the executive director of the Better Schools Foundation, which was founded by Lamar Alexander and whose purpose was to promote the use of school vouchers.

In February 1881 Hryniewiecki joined as a part of the bombthrower unit, created for the purpose of assassinating the Tsar Alexander II.

In other variants, other ingredients serve the purpose: in a form known to the Midrash, straw was fed in which nails were hidden, or skins of camels were filled with hot coals, or in the Alexander cycle of Romances it was Alexander the Great who overcame the dragon by feeding it poison and tar.

In January 1881, he joined the bomb-thrower unit, created for the purpose of assassinating Tsar Alexander II.

The Alexander Thomson Travelling Studentship, of which the second winner was Charles Rennie Mackintosh, was established in his honor, " for the purpose of providing a travelling studentship for the furtherance of the study of ancient classic architecture, with special reference to the principles illustrated in Mr. Thomson ’ s works ".< ref >

There are two competing theories for the purpose of Alexander the Great's decision to march through the desert rather than along the more hospitable coast.

Alexander the Great around 300 BC stored snow in pits dug for that purpose.

It was not until the nineteenth century when there was interest in finding a shipping route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to avoid traveling via the Straits of Magellan that the Chocó region again became of significant interest to European colonial powers, as the Atrato River Valley was thought the best possibility for this purpose by the explorer Alexander von Humboldt ; however it was eventually shelved in favour of the Panama Canal.

By 1912, however, Alexander had altered his views to some extent and considered that the book had served its purpose, had become dated, and should be allowed to die.

Milne's Institution was originally built in accordance with Alexander Milne's Last Will and Testament, using money ($ 100, 000 ) he left for this purpose.

Assuming ZF is consistent, Paul Cohen employed the technique of forcing, developed for this purpose, to show that the axiom of choice itself is not a theorem of ZF by constructing a much more complex model which satisfies ZF ¬ C ( ZF with the negation of AC added as axiom ) and thus showing that ZF ¬ C is consistent.

Gram devised his technique not for the purpose of distinguishing one type of bacterium from another but to enable bacteria to be seen more readily in stained sections of lung tissue .< ref >

Airborne radio relay is a technique employing aircraft fitted with radio relay stations for the purpose of increasing the range, flexibility, or physical security of communications systems.

Ultra-wideband ( UWB ) is another modulation technique that accomplishes the same purpose, based on transmitting short duration pulses.

Word play or wordplay is a literary technique and a form of wit in which the words that are used become the main subject of the work, primarily for the purpose of intended effect or amusement.

Contrary to a popular legend, de Broglie actually gave the correct rebuttal that the particular technique could not be generalized for Pauli's purpose, although the audience might have been lost in the technical details and de Broglie's mild mannerism left the impression that Pauli's objection was valid.

The customary medieval exegetical technique commented on the text in glossae (" glosses " or annotations ) written between the lines and at the side of the text which was left with wide margins for this very purpose.

This anticipation and conversation-inducing authorial technique would often be very contrived as the only purpose was to maintain interest in the monthly serial.

While in the action painting style of Abstract Expressionism brushstrokes were often large and bold and paint was applied in a rapid outpouring of emotion and energy, the Abstract Impressionist's short and intense brushstrokes or non-traditional application of paints and textures is done slowly and with purpose, using the passage of time as an asset and a technique.

High-performance liquid chromatography ( sometimes referred to as high-pressure liquid chromatography ), HPLC, is a chromatographic technique used to separate a mixture of compounds in analytical chemistry and biochemistry with the purpose of identifying, quantifying and purifying the individual components of the mixture.

Each technique has its purpose — the first provides color accuracy ( for photorealist painting ), the second provides color variety ( especially in dark colors ), the third produces many " wet in wet " effects between wetter and drier paint areas ( for greater color expressiveness ), the fourth can produce a variety of luminous, iridescent or " broken color " effects, similar to mixtures with pastel chalks.

* Sugging ( from SUG, for " selling under the guise " of market research ) forms a sales technique in which sales people pretend to conduct marketing research, but with the real purpose of obtaining buyer motivation and buyer decision-making information to be used in a subsequent sales call.

* Flash release, a technique used for pressing grapes, usually for the purpose of making wine

The purpose of the double-clutch technique is to aid in matching the rotational speed of the input shaft being driven by the engine to the rotational speed of the gear the driver wishes to select ( directly connected to rotating wheels ).

The handbrake turn is a driving technique used to deliberately slide a car sideways, either for the purpose of negotiating a very tight bend quickly, or for turning around well within the vehicle's own turning circle.

Stencils were popular as a method of book illustration, and for that purpose the technique was at its height of popularity in France during the 1920s when André Marty, Jean Saudé and many other studios in Paris specialised in the technique.

* Calling public meetings for the sole purpose of criticizing an individual ( who may also be present at the meeting ) who is believed to hold views that are unacceptable to the organization that he / she is an employee or member of ( this technique was commonly used in the People's Republic of China during the Cultural Revolution ).

The source, sample arrangement and detection technique vary significantly depending on the frequency range and the purpose of the experiment.

Event-driven Process Chain is a business process modelling technique, mainly used for analysing processes for the purpose of an ERP implementation.

The purpose of the technique is to find imperfect instances of objects within a certain class of shapes by a voting procedure.

The “ technique ” of the title refers not only to technologies but to any methods developed for the purpose of achieving predetermined ends.

In telecommunications, cover is the technique of concealing or altering the characteristics of communications patterns for the purpose of denying an unauthorized receiver information that would be of value.

The sole purpose of dummy reversal is to yield more tricks than the normal technique.