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Spencer adopted a utilitarian standard of ultimate value – the greatest happiness of the greatest number – and the culmination of the evolutionary process would be the maximization of utility.

The Luchas de Apuestas match is usually seen as the culmination of a long and heated storyline between two or more wrestlers with the winner getting the " ultimate victory ".

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The latter view, which receives its first support in the facts of life, or organic nature as such, finds its culmination and ultimate verification in the ethical world, which essentially consists in the realization of ends.

Commanding the Continental Army for six long years of the Revolution, he was the indispensable factor in the ultimate victory.

The basic difficulty, I suppose, was in my ultimate inability to feel a burden of sin from which I sought relief.

Our comment was that this was `` featherbedding '' in its ultimate form and that sympathy for the railroad was misplaced since it had entered into such an agreement.

We said there that it was necessary `` that a registrant be given an opportunity to rebut ( the Department's ) recommendation when it comes to the Appeal Board, the agency with the ultimate responsibility for classification ''.

For what concerns all scientific disciplines is precisely that which can be captured for the rational, i.e., for the scientific determination of what in past ages was considered ultimate and irrational.

An early hope that irradiation might be the ultimate answer to practically all food preservation problems was soon dispelled.

For in a world as yet unacquainted with the horrors of the mushroom cloud, poison gas was still regarded as the ultimate in hideous weapons.

If not, he was willing to accede to William's wishes in any way that did not block his ultimate aim.

The sound of his head striking the solid wood was an ultimate, sudden-end sound.

There was in the Brahms none of the mysterious and marvelous alchemy by which a great conductor can bring soloist, orchestra and music to ultimate fusion.

The `` belaboring '' is of course jocular, yet James was not lacking in fundamental seriousness -- unless we measure him by that ultimate seriousness of the great religious leader or thinker who stakes all on his vision of God.

However, there is no evidence that his son and ultimate successor, Constantius II, who was an Arian Christian, was exiled.

Alfred's ultimate responsibility was the pastoral care of his people.

The creation of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1910 was regarded as a milestone on the road to the ultimate goal of abolition of war.

Their ultimate solution was to sell Corsica to France and French troops of the ancien régime replaced Genoese ones in the citadels, including Ajaccio's.

The Oki 900 was the ultimate tool of cell phone hackers because it could listen in to AMPS phone calls right out of the box with no hardware modifications.

Probably the ultimate development of graphic presentations was the Dynamic page implementation of the University of Southern California BBS ( USCBBS ) by Susan Biddlecomb, which predated the implementation of the HTML Dynamic web page.

The paradox of the early Bauhaus was that, although its manifesto proclaimed that the ultimate aim of all creative activity was building, the school did not offer classes in architecture until 1927.

In these sutras the perfection of the wisdom of not-self is stated to be the true self ; the ultimate goal of the path is then characterized using a range of positive language that had been used previously in Indian philosophy by essentialist philosophers, but which was now transmuted into a new Buddhist vocabulary to describe a being who has successfully completed the Buddhist path.

Bonaparte had sought to invade Egypt, as the first step in a campaign against British India whose ultimate aim was to drive Britain out of the French Revolutionary Wars.

The most notable attempt to use deep penetration operations in Normandy was at Mortain, which exacerbated the German position in the already-forming Falaise Pocket and assisted in the ultimate destruction of German forces in Normandy.

Likewise, Roger Cohen, in an op-Ed for the New York Times propounded that, " captive minds ... resort to conspiracy theory because it is the ultimate refuge of the powerless.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of critical theory, as Adorno and Horkheimer elaborated in their Dialectic of Enlightenment ( 1947 ), is a certain ambivalence concerning the ultimate source or foundation of social domination, an ambivalence which gave rise to the “ pessimism ” of the new critical theory over the possibility of human emancipation and freedom.

To the ultimate explanation of the phenomena with which he dealt he contributed nothing, and it is noteworthy although he did not maintain to the end of his life the corpuscular theory he never explicitly adopted the wave theory of light.

William James in his lecture ' Great Men and Their Environment ' underlined the importance of the Great Man's congruence with the surroundings ( in the broad sense ), though his ultimate point was that environments and individuals shape each other reciprocally, just as environments and individual members of animal species do according to Darwinian theory.

This idea somewhat anticipates the modern concept of an ultimate grand unification theory that finally explains all of existence in terms of one inter-related sub-atomic reality which applies to everything.

We are now controlled not by binding extra-linguistic value paradigms defining notions of collective identity and ultimate purpose, but rather by our automatic responses to different species of " language games " ( a concept Lyotard imports from JL Austin's theory of Speech Acts ).

With guidance by molecular theory, the dependence of viscoelastic properties on these variables can be simplified by introducing additional concepts such as the free volume, the monomeric friction coefficient, and the spacing between entanglement loci, to provide a qualitative understanding and in many cases a quantitative prediction of how to achieve desired physical and chemical properties and ultimate microstructure.

Stephen Hawking, in his book The Grand Design, wrote that M-theory may be the ultimate theory of the universe.

The ultimate goal of the general strike, according to Industrial Workers of the World theory, is to displace capitalists and give control over the means of production to workers.

The ultimate in large numbers was, until recently, the concept of infinity, a number defined by being greater than any finite number, and used in the mathematical theory of limits.

The Cabinet is the ultimate decision-making body of the executive within the Westminster system of government in traditional constitutional theory.

A general theory of molecular mechanosynthesis to parallel that of photosynthesis and chemosynthesis ( both used by living things ) is the ultimate goal of the field.

The theoretical scientific exploration of the ultimate fate of the universe became possible with Albert Einstein's 1916 theory of general relativity.

The most probable theory is that the name derives from the Finnish dialectal word oulu, meaning " floodwater ", which is related to e. g. Southern Saami åulo, meaning " melted snow ", åulot meaning " thaw " ( of unknown ultimate origin ).

Although in theory the CMC has the highest military command authority, in reality the ultimate decision making power concerning war, armed forces, and national defense resides with the Communist Party ’ s Politburo.

On the basis of this, Gaia theory and geophysiology represent the ultimate extension of these principles.

Philosopher Allan Bloom, a student of Leo Strauss, criticized Rawls for failing to account for the existence of natural right in his theory of justice, and wrote that Rawls absolutizes social union as the ultimate goal which would conventionalize everything into artifice.

Kin selection theory in this view is seen as specifying an ultimate cause rather than a proximate cause ( See Tinbergen's four questions ) of social bonding and cooperation.

* Maximum normal stress theory-This theory postulates, that failure will occur in machine part if the maximum normal stress in the part exceeds the ultimate tensile stress of the material as determined from uniaxial testing.

The ultimate goal of cognitive therapy is to modify distorted thoughts or misconceptions associated with whatever is being feared ; the theory is that modifying these thoughts will decrease anxiety and avoidance of certain situations.

He wrote in his autobiography: " I found here a theory of heredity and development elaborated with uncommon perspicacity to its ultimate consequences ..... This stimulated experimental work of my own "

A central question in the theory of branching processes is the probability of ultimate extinction, where no individuals exist after some finite number of generations.