The basic purpose of an effective collective-bargaining system is the removal of wages from competition.

Archaeological interpretations of the Chaco road system are divided between an economic purpose and a symbolic, ideological role linked to ancestral Puebloan beliefs.

The economic purpose of the Chaco road system is shown by the presence of luxury items at Pueblo Bonito and elsewhere in the canyon.

Other archaeologists think instead that the main purpose of the road system was a religious one, providing pathways for periodic pilgrimages and facilitating regional gatherings for seasonal ceremonies.

Archaeologists agree that the purpose of this road system may have changed through time and that the Chaco Road system probably functioned for both economic and ideological reasons.

The system is a dual purpose test and interception facility in Alaska, and in 2006 was operational with a few interceptor missiles.

In the metric system, the hectare is commonly used for the same purpose.

The main purpose of this system is to allow phone company technicians to identify which telephone line they are connected to.

A notable opioid for the purpose of relief of diarrhoea is loperamide which is only an agonist of the μ opioid receptors in the large intestine and does not have opioid affects in the central nervous system as it doesn't cross the blood – brain barrier in significant amounts.

A principal purpose of acceptance testing is that, once completed successfully, and provided certain additional ( contractually agreed ) acceptance criteria are met, the sponsors will then sign off on the system as satisfying the contract ( previously agreed between sponsor and manufacturer ), and deliver final payment.

The Cleminson system is not a true bogie, but serves a similar purpose.

Application software applies the power of a particular computing platform or system software to a particular purpose.

Therefore a computer system usually contains several kinds of storage, each with an individual purpose.

0 km-There are no railways in Cape Verde, although there was a short overhead conveyor system for salt from the open salt lake on Sal to the port at Pedro de Lume and a short stretch of rail track to the pier at Santa Maria used for a similar purpose.

Those were undoubtedly major steps backwards .... Colonialism was not merely a system of exploitation, but one whose essential purpose was to repatriate the profits to the so-called ‘ mother country ’.

Critics of planned economies argue that planners cannot detect consumer preferences, shortages, and surpluses with sufficient accuracy and therefore cannot efficiently co-ordinate production ( in a market economy, a free price system is intended to serve this purpose ).

The major purpose of a database is to provide the information system ( in its broadest sense ) that utilizes it with the information the system needs according to its own requirements.

Alternatively, each computer may have its own user with individual needs, and the purpose of the distributed system is to coordinate the use of shared resources or provide communication services to the users.

Systems of schooling involve institutionalized teaching and learning in relation to a curriculum, which itself is established according to a predetermined purpose of the schools in the system.

Most general purpose functional programming languages allow unrestricted recursion and are Turing complete, which makes the halting problem undecidable, can cause unsoundness of equational reasoning, and generally requires the introduction of inconsistency into the logic expressed by the language's type system.

A GIS can be thought of as a system — it digitally creates and " manipulates " spatial areas that may be jurisdictional, purpose, or application-oriented.

He convened a Commission of Inquiry, known as the Brent Commission, for the purpose of examining alternatives to a licensing system for opium addicts.

Too many people think that the primary purpose of a higher education is to help you make a living ; ;

Obviously, such a Northern tourist's purpose is somewhat akin to a child's experience with Disneyland: he wants to see a world of make-believe.

The steady purpose of our society is to assure justice, before God, for every individual.

Steele's purpose is to present a general defense of his political writing and a resume of the themes which had occupied him in the Englishman ; ;

For this purpose a degree of intellectual and emotional involvement is necessary ; ;

How literature does this, or for whom, is certainly not clear, but the content, form, and language of the `` message '', as well as the source, would all play differentiated parts in giving and molding a sense of purpose.

One might argue that the ultimate purpose of literary scholarship is to correct this spontaneous provincialism that is likely to obscure the horizons of the general public, of the newspaper critic, and of the creative artist himself.

One of them is that it gives meaning and purpose to life.

As to our action, let us align ourselves with the purpose expressed by Jesus in the Lord's Prayer: `` Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven ''.

The Chicago contingent of modern critics follow Aristotle so far in this direction that it is hard to see how they can compare one poem with another for the purpose of evaluation.

The whole purpose of Man's Hope is to portray the tragic dialectic between means and ends inherent in all organized political violence -- and even when such violence is a necessary and legitimate self-defense of liberty, justice and human dignity.

The NCTA is well advised to seek funds for this purpose from the present session of Congress.

It is not in business for the purpose of absorbing increased municipal costs no matter how high a purpose that may be ''.

The amount which may be borrowed from the SBA depends on how much is required to carry out the intended purpose of the loan.

The collection of information is meaningless unless it is understood and used for a definite purpose.

It is the purpose of Armed Forces Day to give Americans an opportunity to honor men of the Armed Forces, those who have made the supreme sacrifice, those who remain to preserve our security.

The Secretary of the Interior or any duly authorized representative shall be entitled to admission to, and to require reports from the operator of, any metal or nonmetallic mine which is in a State ( excluding any coal or lignite mine ), the products of which regularly enter commerce or the operations of which substantially affect commerce, for the purpose of gathering data and information necessary for the study authorized in the first section of this Act.

The purpose of the adjusted Federal share relating to the base allotment and of the transition provisions for reaching the unadjusted Federal share is to prevent dislocations from abrupt changes in matching rates.

This facility is needed for the purpose of securing funds to finance agricultural market development activities of the Government of the United States in other countries.

the purpose of producing plays at the College is three-fold: to provide the Carleton students with the best possible opportunity for theater-going within the limits set by the maturity and experience of the performers and the theatrical facilities available ; ;

The purpose of the Club is to promote better athletic teams at Carleton and to increase interest in them among the student body.