It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.

Traditionally, a bodhisattva is anyone who, motivated by great compassion, has generated bodhicitta, which is a spontaneous wish to attain Buddhahood for the benefit of all sentient beings.

Both are used in the detoxification of individuals who are motivated to stop drinking, and are prescribed for a short period of time to reduce the risks of developing tolerance and dependence to the benzodiazepine medication itself.

Following the defeat of the Independent State of Croatia at the end of the war, a large number of Ustaše, and civilians supporting them ( ranging from sympathisers, young conscripts, anti-communists, and ordinary serfs who were allegedly motivated by Partisan crimes ) attempted to flee in the direction of Austria hoping to surrender to British forces and to be given refuge.

Gesellschaft, on the other hand, is a group in which the individuals who make up that group are motivated to take part in the group purely by self-interest.

Those who knew him maintained that " generous ardor ", high-minded idealism and well-meaning, though sometimes fanatical, enthusiasm rather than selfishness and jealousy, motivated his activities during this period.

Based on this, she offered a definition incorporating those elements, stating that euthanasia " must be defined as death that results from the intention of one person to kill another person, using the most gentle and painless means possible, that is motivated solely by the best interests of the person who dies.

Deliberate flaming, as opposed to flaming as a result of emotional discussions, is carried out by individuals known as flamers, who are specifically motivated to incite flaming.

Quakers fell foul of irregularly enforced laws forbidding unauthorized worship while actions motivated by belief in social equality — refusing to use or acknowledge titles, take hats off in court or bow to those who considered themselves socially superior — were seen as disrespectful.

Suicide or " martyrdom operations " are a lethal technique among radical Islamists, sometimes motivated by the much disputed explanation that " God will give " those who kill themselves in the path of jihad 70 or 72 female " virgins " and " everlasting happiness.

An amoralist is not simply someone who is immoral, rather it is someone who knows what the moral things to do are, yet is not motivated to do them.

In Christianity, iconoclasm has generally been motivated by people who adopt a literal interpretation of the Ten Commandments, which forbid the making and worshipping of " graven images or any likeness of anything ".

His death motivated the Danes, who until then had resigned themselves to German occupation, to rise against their foreign oppressors.

Those individuals who are highly motivated to respond, typically individuals who have strong opinions, are overrepresented, and individuals that are indifferent or apathetic are less likely to respond.

His response to detractors was that indeed, in truth, there is a prohibition against teaching Mishnah to any student — male or female — who one knows is not properly prepared and motivated, referred to a talmid she-eino hagun ( Shulhan Arukh, Yoreh De ' ah 246: 7 ).

Murray responded to much criticism by claiming that it was religiously motivated, coming from Christians who did not want her theories to be true: in one case she stated that her theory had received " a hostile reception from many strictly Christian sects and reviewers, but it made its way in spite of opposition.

According to LDS Church general authority Monte J. Brough, " Mormons who baptized 380, 000 Holocaust victims posthumously were motivated by love and compassion and did not understand their gesture might offend Jews ... they did not realize that what they intended as a ' Christian act of service ' was ' misguided and insensitive .'".

In contrast, those who justified US interventions in the Cold War period always cast these as being motivated by the need to contain totalitarianism and thus fulfilled a higher moral imperative.

It has been blamed for the level of destruction involved in the First and Second World Wars, but it seems rather that Clausewitz ( who did not actually use the term " total war ") had merely foreseen the inevitable development that started with the huge, patriotically motivated armies of the Napoleonic wars.

DeMause and the psychohistorians respond that their detractors are not largely moved by evidence, but rather are unconsciously motivated to attack those who would challenge the idea of " good parenting " even in very primitive tribes or cultures.

" Both portray him as a man motivated by personal ambition, who uses everyone around him to get his way.

Irving Bieber and his colleagues in 1962 published Homosexuality: A Psychoanalytic Study of Male Homosexuals, which concluded that " although this change may be more easily accomplished by some than by others, in our judgment a heterosexual shift is a possibility for all homosexuals who are strongly motivated to change.

Henry's volte-face was probably motivated by a desire to retain dominance over Normandy, which was now threatened by William's growing mastery of his duchy.

A controversy in the 1980s over the Peters map motivated the American Cartographic Association ( now Cartography and Geographic Information Society ) to produce a series of booklets ( including Which Map is Best ) designed to educate the public about map projections and distortion in maps.

After principal photography was complete in 2003, Lucas made even more massive changes in Anakin's character, re-writing his entire turn to the dark side ; his fall from grace would now be motivated by a desire to save his wife, Padmé Amidala, rather than the previous version in which that reason was one of several, including that he genuinely believed that the Jedi were plotting to take over the Republic.

Ironically the very fear which motivated airline deregulation legislation, bankruptcy, has now been repeatedly visited upon it with effects equal to the Penn Central Railroad incident.

In 2003, Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $ 125 million in order to settle its portion of a $ 1. 4 billion settlement brought by Eliott Spitzer, the Attorney General of New York, the National Association of Securities Dealers ( now the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ( FINRA )), the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, ( SEC ) and a number of state securities regulators, relating to intentionally misleading research motivated by a desire to win investment banking business with the companies covered.

An increase in student numbers in the following years motivated fund raising efforts to move the college to greenfield land around Back Lane ( now University Road ) in the Highfield area of Southampton.

This, in part, is motivated by her bohemian friend Vi Munson, whose brother Billy has come home after just two weeks in Vietnam with grave emotional problems and now resides in the VA hospital.

The renaming of the two junior high schools, now middle schools, after prominent African-Americans rather than giant American literary figures was motivated in part by the desire to motivate minority students in their educational pursuits.

According to Ellwood, the later Eliade had the same desire for a Romanian " resurrection " that had motivated the early Eliade to support the Iron Guard, but he now channeled it apolitically through his efforts to " maintain the culture of a free Romania " abroad.

Later improvements to the program motivated a name change into the now familiar XMODEM.

The original purpose of instant cameras was motivated by Jennifer Land's question to her father ( Edwin Land ): " Why can't I see them now?

However, with Daredevil now motivated by the fear of losing her rather than the grief he felt when he actually lost her, he kills the Kingpin in a subsequent confrontation, subsequently being arrested and sent to prison despite the testimony of other heroes simply because the legal system is ill-equipped to cope with cases like this.

The introduction of this one-year graduate course was motivated by a University of Cambridge Mathematics Faculty Board Report on the " demand for postgraduate instruction in numerical analysis and automatic computing … < nowiki ></ nowiki > if not met, there is a danger that the application to scientific research of the machines now being built will be hampered ".

The Allies had by now largely overcome the administrative and organisational problems which had crippled their early efforts in Burma, and their troops were far better trained and motivated.

He believes that the UN must stop promoting on the basis of political correctness that encourages promoting staffs proportionately from certain regions of the world, but instead make more use of Asia, Africa and other so-called less developed regions that now offer a large pool of talented, skilled, and highly motivated professionals.

But without that trauma, Dr. Givens was never motivated to travel back through time and preemptively murder known serial killers, one of whom eventually murdered a close friend of Agent Pratt ( at the beginning of the episode this friend was dead, then alive later in the episode thanks to a temporal excursion by Dr. Givens, now dead again ).

The controversies surrounding the subject include whether the terrorist act is self-defense or aggression, national self-determination or Islamic supremacy ; whether Islam can ever condone the targeting of non-combatants ; whether some attacks described as Islamic terrorism are merely terrorist acts committed by Muslims or motivated by nationalism ; whether Zionism and the Arab-Israeli Conflict is the root of Islamic terrorism, or simply one cause ; how much support there is in the Muslim world for Islamic terrorism and whether support for terror is a temporary phenomenon, a " bubble ", now fading away.

His work on the cosmic microwave background has some relevance to the NSA's satellite signals technology and he was contacted by this agency last September to serve as an alternate for the recently detained Professor Johannes Igby, a rival physicist who created the now proven ( though initially contested by Larry ) Igby's Law to redefine the gravitational flux motivated by sound wave propagation in Bose-Einstein condensates and a candidate on the short list for the National Medal of Science award.

These charges are now widely believed to have been politically motivated.

Descendants of family members and musicians who knew Ardoin tell a story, now well-known, about a racially motivated attack on him in which he was severely beaten, probably between 1939 – 1940, while walking home after playing at a house dance near Eunice, Louisiana.

This group, centered in southeastern Pennsylvania in close proximity to a large Catholic population in Philadelphia and thus motivated by Anti-Catholicism, objected strenuously to the Mercersburg reforms, going so far as to establish a separate seminary now known as Ursinus College.

Phoeby tells her that after listening to her story, she is now motivated to live her life and to create a self-identity.