Engineering geology is the application of the geologic principles to engineering practice for the purpose of assuring that the geologic factors affecting the location, design, construction, operation and maintenance of engineering works are properly addressed.

The main purpose of IFR is the safe operation of aircraft in instrument meteorological conditions ( IMC ).

The Committee's purpose was to conduct inquiries, oversee the operation of the League's health work, and prepare work to be presented to the Council.

The professed purpose of banishing rituals is to eliminate forces that might interfere with a magical operation, and they are often performed at the beginning of an important event or ceremony ( although they can be performed for their own sake as well ).

While not fundamental to circuit operation, diodes connected in series with the base or emitter of the transistors are required to prevent the base-emitter junction being driven into reverse breakdown when the supply voltage is in excess of the V < sub > eb </ sub > breakdown voltage, typically around 5-10 volts for general purpose silicon transistors.

A WPAN could serve to interconnect all the ordinary computing and communicating devices that many people have on their desk or carry with them today ; or it could serve a more specialized purpose such as allowing the surgeon and other team members to communicate during an operation.

The project closing phase activities at the VA continues through system deployment and into system operation for the purpose of illustrating and describing the system activities the VA considers part of the project.

The purpose of insole is to attach to the lasting margin of the upper, which is wrapped around the last during the closing of the shoe during the lasting operation.

According to the NEC, the purpose of earthing an electrical system is to limit the voltage to earth imposed by lightning events and contact with higher voltage lines, and also to stabilize the voltage to earth during normal operation.

Ford also bought or designed and built special purpose machine tools and fixtures such as multiple spindle drill presses that could drill every hole on one side of an engine block in one operation and a multiple head milling machine that could simultaneously machine 15 engine blocks held on a single fixture.

Therefore, data for the purpose of the chemical analysis of lunar surface material were obtained only during the first 30 hours of operation.

The purpose of Parson's operation has been underemphasized.

The purpose of Camp Arrowhead is to provide Scouting experiences, which strengthen your troop operation by supporting the efforts of your unit ’ s leadership – both adult and youth – and by fulfilling the promise of Scouting, in the outdoors.

The purpose of Camp Arrowhead is to provide Scouting experiences, which strengthen your troop operation by supporting the efforts of your unit ’ s leadership – both adult and youth – and by fulfilling the promise of Scouting, in the outdoors.

Nevertheless, the primary purpose of the reactor is not to produce plutonium and North Korea has had trouble acquiring enough fuel for constant operation.

However, during the special operation in Dubrovka this provision was disregarded, i. e. neither the type, nor the quantity of the chemical agent helped to attain the set purpose — to neutralize the terrorists so as to rescue the hostages.

The purpose of the operation was to punish the Vandal king Geiseric for the sacking of Rome in 455, in which the former capital of the Western Roman Empire had been overwhelmed, and the Empress Licinia Eudoxia ( widow of Emperor Valentinian III ) and her daughters had been taken as hostages.

It was formulated for the purpose of illustrating the logical groups and scopes of functions needed in the design of the suite of internetworking protocols of TCP / IP, as needed for the operation of the Internet.

The no-fly zones persisted until the 2003 invasion of Iraq, although France withdrew from participation in patrolling the no-fly zones in 1996, citing a lack of humanitarian purpose for the operation.

“ Every machine is constructed for the purpose of performing certain mechanical operations, each of which supposes the existence of two other things besides the machine in question, namely, a moving power, and an object subject to the operation, which may be termed the work to be done.

Superheater operation is similar to that of the coils on an air conditioning unit, although for a different purpose.

Much of the operation was directed by Melvin Weinberg, himself a convicted con artist, who had been hired by the FBI for that purpose.

The purpose of the operation was to create a diversion for a Royal Lao Army offensive and to exert pressure on the occupation forces of the People's Army of Vietnam ( PAVN ).

Some of the stations which were launched then, including WWJ in Detroit, KCBS in San Francisco and KDKA in Pittsburgh ( the first station specifically licensed for the purpose ) continue in daily 24-hour operation today under the ownership and management of CBS.

No one seemed to know for sure what had happened, nor was there any purpose or responsibility in the muttering feet and urgent voices behind the driver, beyond finding out.

His purpose, however, was not to establish an empire, but to assert the principle of divine justice.

Anyone who tried to remedy some of the most glaring defects in our form of democracy was denounced as a traitorous red whose real purpose was the destruction of our government.

But by the time the papers were finally disposed of, the group had informed the world of its purpose, its recommendations, and its belief that Paul Bang-Jensen was not of sound mind.

Against Seebohm formidable foes have taken the field, notably F. W. Maitland, whose Domesday Book And Beyond was written expressly for this purpose, and Sir Paul Vinogradoff whose The Growth Of The Manor had a similar aim.

It was doing very well, too, having reached the center, and was pursuing its way with commendable singleness of purpose when Mr. Podger saw hazard approaching in the shape of a flashy little sports car.

Sing Sing's prisoner strike was motivated by a reasonable purpose, a fair break from parole boards.

But if his purpose was to inspire terror, his action could hardly have miscarried more obviously.

One moment, the road was filled with disciplined troops, marching four by four with a purpose as implacable as death ; ;

No, Kayabashi was bringing his associates here for a specific purpose and Rector would not be able to fathom it until they arrived.

Claire was bitterly disappointed but determined not to let the rebuff daunt her purpose.

Its purpose was to find ways of offsetting the United States' declining balance of trade for 1958 and 1959.

The State Ballet of Rhode Island, the first incorporated group, was formed for the purpose of extending knowledge of the art of ballet in the Community, to promote interest in ballet performances, to contribute to the cultural life of the State, and to provide opportunity for gifted dance students who, for one reason or another, are unable to pursue a career and to develop others for the professional state ; ;

The purpose of this provision was thus explained in the Court's opinion: ``

It was determined that the hours of sunrise and sunset, respectively, should be used for this purpose.

At this date, it seems probable that the name of Serge Prokofieff will appear in the archives of History, as an effective Traditionalist, who was fully aware of the lure and danger of experimentation, and used it as it served his purpose ; ;

-- Although there was some variation in results which must be attributed either to trace impurities or to variation in wall effects, the photochemical exchange in the gas phase was sufficiently reproducible so that it seemed meaningful to compare the reaction rates in different series of reaction tubes for the purpose of obtaining information on the effect of chlorine concentration and of carbon tetrachloride concentration on the reaction rate.

It was stated earlier that one purpose of this study was to extend the analysis of variability of Onset and Completion in each of the 21 growth centers somewhat beyond that provided by the data in Tables 1 and 2.

The purpose set forth at the beginning of this book was first to introduce the reader to a general background knowledge of the various types and capabilities of the forecasting methods already in use, so that he might then be in a position to evaluate for himself the validity of the rather astonishing empirical correlation that is to follow, and to appraise the forecast that its interpretation suggests for the future of farm prices over the years immediately ahead.

One purpose of the change was to attain sympathetic enforcement of rights insured by the Civil War amendments against state interference.

The Justice's elaborate examination of the legislative history of the provision in question suggests that Congress' purpose was merely to make unions suable.