Romanus had discussed with Benedict the purpose which had brought him to Subiaco, and had given him the monk's habit.

Suetonius claims that Caligula was already cruel and vicious: he writes that, when Tiberius brought Caligula to Capri, his purpose was to allow Caligula to live in order that he "... prove the ruin of himself and of all men, and that he was rearing a viper for the Roman People and a Phaëton for the world.

For the purpose, Van der Stel brought 105 Malagasy slaves to the island.

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 ".

The Yule log was originally an entire tree, that was carefully chosen and brought into the house with great ceremony with the purpose being to provide maximum warmth and endurance.

The Dyke has in some cases been brought into common folklore, though this should not be seen as historical evidence for the purpose behind the Dyke.

As a matter of course the intended union which was the purpose of the colloquy was not brought about ; nevertheless it called forth serious developments within the Reformed Church.

Cloning is still a controversial topic, especially considering the possibility for an entire person to be brought into being with the express purpose of being destroyed for organ procurement.

Coward began researching the project while appearing in the Broadway production of Private Lives, finding inspiration in back issues of The Illustrated London News he had brought to New York City with him expressly for that purpose.

Elizabeth I's charter of 1573 describes the school's purpose thus: < BLOCKQUOTE > " a grammar school which shall be called The Free Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth for the education, bringing up and instruction of boys and youth, to be brought up in grammar and other learning, and the same to continue for ever, and the said School for one Master and one Usher for ever to continue and remain and that there shall be for ever four-and-twenty discreet, honest governors of the said Free Grammar School.

Its appearance in the new phase of Classicism brought with it new connotations of high-minded primitive simplicity, seriousness of purpose, noble sobriety, and, in the United States, republican virtues.

Murdoch's isinglass replacement was so effective that in a court case brought by the British Customs and Excise Authorities, the noted Chemist, Sir Humphry Davy in answer to a question on whether it was " proper to be used for the purpose of fineing beer " testified that:

The actual formation of this unit was delayed until 15 March 1855 when detachments from the Zouave regiments already serving in the Crimea were brought together for this purpose.

An article from the New York Times reads, " Another " Jesse James " Gang-" Word was brought to the Fifth Police Station to-night that a number of boys were using the Concord-street School-house for some unknown purpose, and a posse of officers was sent to investigate.

The writing of the song is contemporaneous with the publication of Cecil Rhodes ' will — in which he bequeathed his considerable wealth for the specific purpose of promoting " the extension of British rule throughout the world ", and added a long detailed list of territories which Rhodes wanted brought under British rule and colonised by British people.

The political purpose behind the invasion was somewhat undermined by Ducasse, the governor of Saint-Domingue – today's Haiti – who brought his soldiers with a plan to steal, but ended with pirates and thieves destroying the city.

Pennies can often be observed being used at games on Anzac Day, as they are brought out specifically for this purpose each year.

Pausanias, without saying a word about Agoracritus, says that the Rhamnusian Nemesis was the work of Phidias, and was made out of the block of Parian marble which the Persians under Datis and Artaphernes brought with them for the purpose of setting up a trophy.

The band brought the film to rock festivals across America during the summer of 2008 and screened it in a large circus tent they had bought for that purpose.

The Swiss solved the pike's earlier problems and brought a renaissance to pike warfare in the 15th century, establishing strong training regimens to ensure they were masters of handling of the Spiess ( The German term for " skewer ") on maneuvers and in combat, the Swiss having also introduced marching to drums for this purpose.

In March 2008, Carlyle Capital Corporation, established in August 2006 for the purpose of making investments in U. S. mortgage-backed securities, defaulted on about US $ 16. 6 billion of debt as the global credit crunch brought about by the subprime mortgage crisis worsened for leveraged investors.

In 1827, partly for the purpose of rebutting the charges brought against him by Kotzebue, he published Views and Remarks on a Voyage of Discovery, and Description of a Voyage Round the World.

Nevertheless, few additional defenders arrived on January 23 although the arrival on the evening of January 22 of Lieutenant General Alfred Schlemm and his 1st Parachute Corps headquarters brought greater organisation and purpose to the German defensive preparations.

Originally, the purpose of old age pensions was to prevent elderly persons from being reduced to beggary, which is still common in some underdeveloped countries, but growing life expectancies and elder populations has brought into question the model under which pension systems were designed.

Additionally, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach ( Halichos Sh ' lomo 3: 179-180 ) suggests that the Fast of the Firstborn incorporates the second purpose mentioned above ; firstborns fast to mourn the loss of their priestly status ( see Numbers, 3: 40-51 ) which had initially been granted them on the fourteenth of Nisan ( ibid., 3: 14 ).

" Madison went on to argue that the purpose of the Virginia Resolution had been to elicit cooperation by the other states in seeking change through means provided in the Constitution, such as amendment.

An amendment having that purpose could be submitted by Congress as provided by the Constitution.

It is the only amendment to have been ratified by state ratifying conventions, specially selected for the purpose.

It is also the only amendment that was approved for the explicit purpose of repealing a previously-existing amendment to the Constitution.

[...] The history of the amendment proves that the people were told that its purpose was to protect weak and helpless human beings and were not told that it was intended to remove corporations in any fashion from the control of state governments.

Miller argues that if the privileges or immunities clause protected the civil rights of citizens of a state from that state, then the 14th amendment would in essence be granting to the Federal government the power to protect all civil rights that had previously been protected by the states, and that " in the absence of language which expresses such a purpose too clearly to admit of doubt ," this was too radical a change to be within the scope of the 14th amendment.

This effect was re-affirmed in Bowers v. Kerbaugh-Empire Co., 271 U. S. 170 ( 1926 ), in which the Supreme Court reviewed Pollock, the Corporation Excise Tax Act of 1909 and the Sixteenth Amendment, and concluded that " t was not the purpose or effect of that amendment to bring any new subject within the taxing power.

In the light of this explicit mention of a jubilee with great remissions of the penalties of sin to be obtained by full confession and purpose of amendment, it seems difficult to reject the statement of Cardinal Giacomo Stefaneschi, the contemporary and counsellor of Pope Boniface VIII, and author of a treatise on the first Jubilee, that the proclamation of the Jubilee owed its origin to the statements of certain aged pilgrims who persuaded Boniface that great indulgences had been granted to all pilgrims in Rome about a hundred years before.

Concern among academia rests in the notion that the purpose of the first amendment to the US constitution was to encourage a free press as political agitator evidenced by the famous quote from US President Thomas Jefferson, " The only security of all is in a free press.

Same-sex marriage opponents in California placed a state constitutional amendment known as Proposition 8 on the November 2008 ballot for the purpose of restoring an opposite-sex definition of marriage.

A venial sin can be left unconfessed so long as there is some purpose of amendment.

Labour Peer Baron Alli, said the amendment was " ill-conceived and does nothing other than undermine the purpose of the bill ", while the gay rights group Stonewall said the amendment was " unworkable and undermined hundreds of years of family law ".

Alaska voters approved a constitutional amendment establishing the Permanent Fund in 1976, one of the rare exceptions to the constitutional intent of not dedicating funds for a specific purpose.

The stated purpose of the amendment was " to protect United States military personnel and other elected and appointed officials of the United States government against criminal prosecution by an international criminal court to which the United States is not party ".

Testimony by Senator Walter Mondale on support for S. 376 ; summary of and need for S. 974, including feasibility of adding an amendment to an appropriation bill to achieve purpose.

The official summary of Proposition 59 states that the purpose of the amendment is to

The purpose of the amendment was to ensure the constitutionality of the Financial Agreement which had been reached by the federal and all state governments in 1927.

When the federal courts blocked some prosecutions, Butler submitted a constitutional amendment in 1955 to limit the court's jurisdiction and an omnibus bill in 1958 for the same purpose.

Absolution forgives the guilt associated with the penitent's sins, and removes the eternal punishment ( Hell ) associated with mortal sins, but only if the penitent has a firm purpose of amendment and is truly contrite.

He concluded by claiming the purpose of the amendment was to ensure defeat of the Omnibus bill.