Theories have been proposed that Víðarr's silence may derive from a ritual silence or other abstentions which often accompany acts of vengeance, as for example in Völuspá and Baldrs draumar when Váli, conceived for the sole purpose of avenging Baldr's death, abstains from washing his hands and combing his hair " until he brought Baldr's adversary to the funeral pyre ".

Bluing or " Laundry blue " is a solution of synthetic ultramarine ( sometimes, prussian blue ) that is used for this purpose when washing white clothes.

In some parts of the world, washing mitts are used for this purpose.

Hand washing for hand hygiene is the act of cleaning the hands with or without the use of water or another liquid, or with the use of soap, for the purpose of removing soil, dirt, and / or microorganisms.

The main medical purpose of washing hands is to cleanse the hands of pathogens ( including bacteria or viruses ) and chemicals which can cause personal harm or disease.

In many respects similar in purpose to ancient Israelite practice and to the washing of feet by Jesus among his disciples, these modern LDS rites are performed only in temples set apart and dedicated for sacred purposes, according to a January 19, 1841 revelation claimed by Joseph Smith, Jr. from Jesus Christ.

The purpose of the stop bath is to halt the development of the film, plate, or paper by either washing off the developing chemical or neutralizing it.

One popular sketch that picked up a following on YouTube and FunnyorDie was ' The Almost Transformers ' which featured the stars disguised as a fridge and a washing machine for the purpose of terrifying shoppers.

Or if the sink is to answer the double purpose of receiver and washer, i. e., if instead of washing the dinner-plates, etc., in a tub placed within the sink, the sink itself is to be used for the purpose, then instead of fixing a sink of non-elastic material, as stoneware or fire-clay, a wood sink lined with tinned copper should be fixed, copper being sufficiently elastic to prevent the breakage of crockery ware, and its surface being smoother and therefore cleaner than lead.

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.

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

While not bestowing upon the reader any singular theme or underlying purpose, it shows that despite the obviously massive advances in technology, society and scope of human civilisation, we are still fundamentally the same.

In studying poetic speech in its phonetic and lexical structure as well as in its characteristic distribution of words and in the characteristic thought structures compounded from the words, we find everywhere the artistic trademark – that is, we find material obviously created to remove the automatism of perception ; the author ’ s purpose is to create the vision which results from that deautomatized perception.

On the other hand, naturalistic thinkers may posit that valuing people's well-being is somehow ' obviously ' the purpose of ethics, or else the only relevant purpose worth talking about.

This had the dual purpose of making the pen serve as part of a somewhat tacky but acceptable counter decoration when several similar pens are grouped together in a glass container to serve as a " flower vase ", but it makes the pen harder to accidentally steal when the user obviously notices that the pen is adorned with an inconvenient decorative accoutrement.

The ideal purpose, obviously, would assure a perfect pattern of good with no bad.

This is because the purpose of the second has been fulfilled: the assembly is obviously willing to consider the motion.

Although the distribution of the leaflets did not incite immediate resistance, the materials or speech had a " tendency " to encourage violent resistance, and therefore were not protected by the First Amendment: "... the language of these circulars was obviously intended to provoke and to encourage resistance to the United States in the war ... and, the defendants, in terms, plainly urged and advocated a resort to a general strike of workers in ammunition factories for the purpose of curtailing the production of ordnance and munitions necessary and essential to the prosecution of the war ....

The main purpose of the building was obviously for the teaching of monks and other religious purposes.

Despite the obviously humouristic purpose of the maps, it does have a remarkably well-researched and accurate portrayal of real and complex economic and market battles emerging since the Internet made globally distributed free and open source software development strategies economically feasible.

* The original purpose of the image was obviously to depict a factual situation, and has no artistic merit.