The purpose of this fourth voyage was clear.

The purpose of the voyage was to test and document the seaworthiness, speed and maneuverability of the ship on the rough open sea and in coastal waters with treacherous currents.

The voyage then progressed to Tahiti ( where the transit of Venus was observed, the overt purpose of the mission ), to New Zealand and to the east coast of Australia, where Cook mapped the coastline and made landfall at Botany Bay and at Endeavour River ( near modern Cooktown ) in Queensland, where they spent almost seven weeks ashore while the ship was repaired after becoming holed on the Great Barrier Reef.

Over time, the descendants of the surviving loyal crew have forgotten the purpose and nature of their ship and lapsed into a pre-technological culture marked by superstition, wherein the word " Ship " is become a synonym of " cosmos ", so that " To move the ship " is considered an oxymoron, and references to the Ship's " voyage " are interpreted as metaphor.

Although the principal purpose of the voyage was to find the Northwest Passage, several objects of scientific curiosity were deemed worthy of investigation, such as the location of the Earth's north magnetic pole and the behaviour of pendulums in high latitudes.

In December 1909, businessman and philanthropist Anthony R. Kuser proposed to the zoo that Beebe be allowed to go on a voyage around the world for the purpose of documenting the world's pheasants, which would be financed by Kuser.

The category does not include ferries or other vessels engaged in short-sea trading, nor dedicated cruise ships where the voyage itself, and not transportation, is the prime purpose of the trip.

An expedition typically refers to a long journey or voyage undertaken for a specific purpose, often exploratory, scientific, geographic, military or political in nature.

A main purpose of the voyage was to search for Terra Australis, which eluded them.

There were many such voyages of women to America for this purpose ( the 1619 voyage being the first ), with the women promised free passage and trousseaus for their trouble.

In 1767, he made a voyage to the East Indies in the British East India Company's service, and put £ 2000 lent him by an uncle to such good purpose in a private trading venture that he laid the foundation of a handsome fortune.

:" I should have liked to have spent the night in the lee of the island but the purpose of my voyage was not to make discoveries.

Financial backers, who would accept some of the risk on a given venture ( historically a sea voyage with associated risks of shipwreck ) in exchange for a premium, would literally write their names under the risk information that was written on a Lloyd's slip created for this purpose.

Or one could suppose that after some evil thoughts by Diego Velázquez, promptly rebuked and found blameworthy by the other Spaniards, who furthermore were willing to continue without Indians in Cuba, the voyage was planned exclusively as one of discovery and conquest, and for that purpose they brought the Veedor, and such a good pilot.

Hawkins, however, in an account of the voyage written thirty years afterwards, maintained, and by that time perhaps had really persuaded himself, that his expedition was undertaken purely for the purpose of geographical discovery.

There were two very damning pieces of evidence: the testimony of Edward Bright, the ship's carpenter, which alone of the accusations Doughty openly denied, and Doughty's own admission that he had disclosed the true purpose of their voyage to Lord William Burghley, a staunch advocate of avoiding trouble with the Spanish.

Cabot had always been interested in making a voyage to Asia through the Arctic, and for this purpose King Edward VI chartered an association of English merchants, the Company of Merchant Adventurers in 1552-1553, with the Duke of Northumberland as principal patron.

A 1900 article reported that “ Mr. Capewell ’ s tenacity of purpose has brought him to the top and it is Hartford ’ s boast that he is one of the men who has done much toward making the city known the world over .” Capewell was among the passengers who attended the maiden voyage of the RMS Lusitania in September 1907.

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.

* August 20 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery, whose purpose is to explore the Louisiana Purchase, suffers its only death when Sergeant Charles Floyd dies, apparently from acute appendicitis.

The purpose of The Limits to Growth was not to make specific predictions, but to explore how exponential growth interacts with finite resources.

In 1861, American President Abraham Lincoln ordered his Secretary of State, William Henry Seward ( who was later to purchase the Russian Territory of Alaska for the US in 1867 ), to meet with the Mexican charge d ’ affaires Matias Romero to explore the possibility of purchasing the island of Cozumel for the purpose of relocating freed American slaves offshore.

This is a type of humanistic therapy that forces the client to explore the meaning of their life, as well as its purpose.

" The purpose of war is to explore each other.

The expedition's purpose must have been to conduct further raids and explore the territory.

In his farewell column, Curtis Fuller wrote, " Our purpose throughout this long time has been to explore and to report honestly the strangest facts of this strange world and the ones that don't fit into the general beliefs of the way things are.

Though the coastline in the area had been explored in the 18th century, Captain Peter Hedland was one of the first Europeans to explore the harbour for the purpose of developing an export port.

The R & D theme has the purpose to explore the mentioned interrelations and through practical measurements to verify and correct the theoretical results.

* Economy of representation is the principle that grammatical structures must exist for a purpose, i. e. the structure of a sentence should be no larger or more complex than required to satisfy constraints on grammaticality, which are equivalent to constraints on the mapping between the conceptual / intensional and sensori-motor interfaces in the optimal system that minimalism seeks to explore.

The purpose of the petroleum fund is to invest parts of the large surplus generated by the Norwegian petroleum sector, generated mainly from taxes of companies, but also payment for license to explore as well as the State's Direct Financial Interest and dividends from partly state-owned Statoil.

The purpose was to explore possible routes for the Canadian Pacific Railway and discover new species of plants.

Carrà described his purpose as to explore the imagined inner life of familiar objects when represented out of their explanatory contexts: their solidity, their separateness in the space allotted to them, the secret dialogue that may take place between them.

That is the purpose of poetry: it is the window that opens, that allows some air in, some other insight, some other possibility so we can explore all that we feel, all that we think but with the space to see more than what we know, because there is so much more than we know ".

Geophysical Service Inc. ( often abbreviated GSI ) was founded by John Clarence Karcher and Eugene McDermott in 1930 for the purpose of using refraction and reflection seismology to explore for petroleum deposits.

Western Geophysical was a company founded in California in 1933 by Henry Salvatori for the purpose of using reflection seismology to explore for petroleum.

His 2011 book, The Storm Before the Calm launched this website, in collaboration with friends who share " his commitment to create a special place in the world of the Internet where people might engage with each other just as they do on other popular Social Media sites ... but in this case with a particular focus, purpose, and reason: to companion with each other, and to explore and share with each other, their discoveries, adventures, and questions about the world's New Spiritual Experience.

In 1912, this company became the Turkish Petroleum Company ( TPC ), formed with the purpose of seeking a concession from the Ottoman Empire to explore for oil in Mesopotamia ( now Iraq ).

The primary purpose for the formation of this organization is for its membership to explore every possible lawful avenue to solicit generous donations in cash, food, clothing, educational and agricultural.

The purpose of the game is to explore and emerge successfully from the Undiscovered Underground.

These desperate efforts to stay human or be human anew in an inhuman situation would be the purpose of most of the characters in Bond's subsequent plays, the scope of which will be to explore the limits and possibilities of humanity.

It is normally restricted to young, pre-pubescent children, and aside from its straightforward purpose of fun can sometimes also serve the purpose of allowing children to explore adult roles and relationships.

Another exhibit offers individuals the chance to explore sense of self, others and purpose through an interactive terminal program.

The stated purpose of the Center for Health Care Solutions is to explore market-based reforms to rein in the cost and improve the quality of care in Massachusetts.