His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.

This term means to focus on a goal so as to lose sight of the " means-whereby " the goal could be most appropriately achieved.

At the end of his term, Frei had accomplished many noteworthy objectives, but he had not fully achieved his party's ambitious goals.

In the 1939 lecture, Tolkien introduced the term " fantasy " in a sense of " higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so ( when achieved ) the most potent ".

Otherwise, the term has achieved very little popular usage in any context.

During his term as president, however, Adams achieved little of long-term consequence in foreign affairs.

After Mistral's Félibrige movement in the 19th century, Provençal achieved the greatest literary recognition and so became the most popular term for the Occitan language.

In the field of computer networking and other packet-switched telecommunication networks, the traffic engineering term refers to resource reservation control mechanisms rather than the achieved service quality.

The term " weakly universal " is sometimes used to distinguish a system ( e. g. a cellular automaton ) whose universality is achieved only by modifying the standard definition of Turing machine so as to include input streams with infinitely many 1s.

Thus, by the time Thoreau's lectures were first published under the title " Civil Disobedience ," in 1866, four years after his death, the term had achieved fairly widespread usage.

However, in general, the term airport may imply or confer a certain stature upon the aviation facility that an aerodrome may not have achieved.

Unified into a single state in 370 BC by the Aeacidae dynasty, Epirus achieved fame during the reign of Pyrrhus of Epirus, whose campaigns against Rome are the origin of the term " Pyrrhic victory ".

In the UK the term glitter rock was most often used to refer to the extreme version of glam pursued by Gary Glitter and his support musicians the Glitter Band, who between them achieved eighteen top ten singles in the UK between 1972 and 1976.

President James K. Polk, having achieved all of his major objectives in one term and suffering from declining health that would take his life less than four months after leaving office, kept his promise not to seek re-election.

Dawson argues that Cecil's long term goal was a united and Protestant British Isles, an objective to be achieved by completing the conquest of Ireland and by creating an Anglo-Scottish alliance.

The term multiculturalism is most often used in reference to Western nation-states, which had seemingly achieved a de facto single national identity during the 18th and / or 19th centuries.

The term is also used to describe existing bands whose members achieved individual fame after the band's founding, such as The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Queen, Genesis and Yes.

The term " state of the art " refers to the highest level of general development, as of a device, technique, or scientific field achieved at a particular time.

He argues that " failure " is a term which indicates nothing about the magnitude of goals set and results achieved.

According to Talmon, totalitarian democracy sees freedom as something achieved only in the long term, and only through collective effort ; the political goal of ultimate order and ultimate harmony brings ultimate freedom.

Liberal democracy, on the other hand, posits freedom as something that can and should be achieved by the individual in the short term, even at the expense of things such as material well-being, and sees as an element of this freedom a " freedom from government " wherein the individual is able to exercise " freedom " in his own terms to the extent that they do not contravene the law.

Prevention and cure can be achieved in the shorter term by adding potassium-specific fertilizer, often called potash, which consists of K < sub > 2 </ sub > CO < sub > 3 </ sub >.

The term appears to have achieved national prominence in 1840, when supporters of the American Democratic political party claimed during the 1840 United States presidential election that it stood for " Old Kinderhook ," a nickname for a Democratic presidential candidate, Martin Van Buren, a native of Kinderhook, New York, who was Andrew Jackson's protégé.

The military use of the term achieved currency in the United States after the formation of NATO in the 1940s, and was then adopted by urban planners in its modern civilian sense by 1970.

< div style =" text-align: center ; border: none "> Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New York City </ div > The term " performance poetry " originates from an early press release describing the popular 1980s performance poet Hedwig Gorski, whose audio recordings achieved success on spoken word radio programs around the world.

Also in this term Johnson renewed in vain his efforts to bring the Homestead Bill to a vote.

In the 19th century a renewed interest in Renaissance polyphony coupled with an ignorance of the fact that vocal parts were often doubled by instrumentalists led to the term coming to mean unaccompanied vocal music.

In the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ( ELCA ) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada ( ELCIC ), the largest Lutheran Church bodies in the United States and Canada respectively and roughly based on the Nordic Lutheran state churches ( similar to that of the Church of England ), bishops are elected by Synod Assemblies, consisting of both lay members and clergy, for a term of 6 years, which can be renewed, depending upon the local synod's " constitution " ( which is mirrored on either the ELCA or ELCIC's national constitution ).

The alliance commonly known as the Second Triumvirate, renewed for a five-year term in 38 BC, broke down when Octavian came to perceive Caesarion, the son of Julius Caesar and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra VII, as a major threat to his power.

The study finds the term now most likely to be used by Liberals in connection with discussions of Muslim and Islamic inclusion in America, and renewed debate about the separation of church and state.

In January 1994, Akayev initiated a referendum asking for a renewed mandate to complete his term of office.

In January 1994, Akayev initiated a referendum asking for a renewed mandate to complete his term of office.

The Chancellor is elected by and from Convocation for a three-year term, which can be renewed once.

Japanese poet and critic Masaoka Shiki revived the term tanka in the early twentieth century for his statement that waka should be renewed and modernized.

Krugman's call renewed interest by economists in regional science and, perhaps more importantly, founded what some term the " new economic geography ", which enjoys much common ground with regional science.

During his term as mayor he built the Pancho Lara park in the Vista Hermosa neighborhood, renewed the electricity system, and began a system of adult education schools.

Owing to the botanical meaning, the term " evergreen " can refer metaphorically to something that is continuously renewed or is self-renewing.

During Yanukovych's term he has been accused of tightening of press restrictions and a renewed effort in the parliament to limit freedom of assembly.

The Opposition parties approached Narayanan and renewed their request to seek a second term.

Each board member is appointed for a staggered five-year term, which can be renewed.

On April 8, 2012, Perlmutter was renewed for a second term, until 2017.

This bicameral legislature had a term of three years, with one-third of the members renewed every year.

The concept of moral hazard was the subject of renewed study by economists in the 1960s and then did not imply immoral behavior or fraud ; rather, economists use the term to describe inefficiencies that can occur when risks are displaced, not the ethics or morals of the involved parties.

His term was renewed in April 2006.

On the morning of June 16, 1915, Nearing's secretary telephoned him to report that a letter from the Provost had arrived, which noted that " as the term of your appointment as assistant professor of economics for 1914-1915 is about to expire, I am directed by the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to inform you that it will not be renewed.

Under the 1986 Constitution, the president is directly elected by eligible voters to a six-year term, which may be renewed once.

Carter's term is best known for the 444-day Iranian hostage crisis, and the move away from détente with the Soviet Union to a renewed Cold War.

While the term itself is usually applied to series that were able to make their final episodes according to plan, it is also used when a show already knows it's been cancelled, or has a strong feeling that it will not be renewed.

Major and Minor League teams may enter into a PDC for a two or four year term and may re-affiliate at the expiration of a PDC term, though many relationships are renewed and endure for extended time periods.