Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

To Northerners, in contrast, the motivation was primarily to preserve the Union, not to abolish slavery.

Indeed, the problem of determining the area of plane figures was a major motivation for the historical development of calculus.

His kingdom was faced with a threat from the north from the Franks ; according to Peter Heather, this was his motivation for marrying Chrotilda, the daughter of Clovis.

His motivation for changing it to something meaning ' the East electrode ' ( other candidates had been " eastode ", " oriode " and " anatolode ") was to make it immune to a possible later change in the direction convention for current, whose exact nature was not known at the time.

The motivation was to constitute a counter-event to the World Economic Forum held in Davos at the same time.

His pupil, successor, and eventual biographer Rimbert considered the visions of which this was the first to be the main motivation of the saint's life.

It is also worth noting that part of the original motivation of the search for stellar parallax was to test the Copernican theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun, but of course the existence of aberration also establishes the truth of that theory.

Another important motivation for the Big Dig in its final form was the abandonment of the Massachusetts Highway Department's intended expressway system through and around Boston.

In reference to the death of Lani Morris, she said that perhaps Morris was " not coming from a place of integrity and did not have the right motivation ".

The motivation for community colleges was a new way of thinking about education and training in Canada ( more specifically in Ontario ), and was economically based as opposed to the much earlier start in the United States of Junior and Community Colleges which was driven by an integrative social policy.

A possible inference is, that one can not be blamed for mistaken judgements if the motivation was to do good.

The FBI's stated motivation was " protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order.

Therefore, the only motivation for labour was either the possibility of great reward or fear of hunger.

His motivation for changing it to something meaning ' the West electrode ' ( other candidates had been " westode ", " occiode " and " dysiode ") was to make it immune to a possible later change in the direction convention for current, whose exact nature was not known at the time.

" Part of his motivation for the book was to look for alternative forms of learning that made use of the enormous potential of the human psyche in more fruitful ways.

But it was not confined to this sphere, and permeated just as strongly his theories of motivation, action, and morality.

Industry observers, however, speculated that the most important motivation was that a name change would help Nissan market stocks and bonds in the U. S. They also presumed substantial ego involvement, since the absence of the Nissan name in the U. S. surely rankled Nissan executives who had seen Toyota and Honda become household words.

The motivation of the actions of a draugr was primarily jealousy and greed.

`` You owe it to Penny to give her a chance to explain that she was defending you, really '', he observed mildly.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

As he watched the man sit suddenly, a detached part of his mind observed how very difficult it was, really, to knock a man off his feet.

A set of tables containing spectral intensities for 39,000 lines of 70 elements, as observed in a copper matrix in a d-c arc, was completed and published.

Steady radiation which was presumably of thermal origin was observed from Venus at 3.15 and 9.4 cm, and from Mars and Jupiter at 3.15 cm in 1956 ( Mayer, McCullough, and Sloanaker, 1958, A, B, C ), and from Saturn at 3.75 cm in 1957 ( Drake and Ewen, 1958 ).

The fraction of exchange was determined as the ratio of the counts / minute observed in the carbon tetrachloride to the counts / minute calculated for the carbon tetrachloride fractions for equilibrium distribution of the activity between the chlorine and carbon tetrachloride, empirically determined correction being made for the difference in counting efficiency of Af in Af and Af.

By comparing reaction cells sealed from the same manifold temperature dependency corresponding to activation energies ranging from 11 to 18 Af was observed while dependence on the first power of the light intensity seemed to be indicated in most cases.

Exchange was also observed in these cells, which had chlorine present at Af.

In the Sacramento valley in California, for instance, it has been observed that there was not one day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins.

It was observed that EWC macromolecules are the same diameter ( 15 a. ) but much longer ( up to several microns ) than vertebrate tropocollagen.

It was observed in the introductory chapter that metropolitan life had split into two trends -- expanding interdependence on an impersonal basis and growing exclusiveness in local communal groupings.

Frederick Douglass once observed of Lincoln: " In his company, I was never reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color ".

There was a tendency in late eighteenth century Enlightenment thought to understand human society as natural phenomena that behaved according to certain principles and that could be observed empirically.

Within a few minutes, Johnston was observed by his staff to be nearly fainting off his horse.

These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disk of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet, but as small objects in the outer Solar System were discovered, their volatile-based surfaces were found to more closely resemble comets, and so were often distinguished from traditional asteroids.

Thus, the planetary model of the atom was discarded in favor of one that described atomic orbital zones around the nucleus where a given electron is most likely to be observed.

Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

A tradition at one time observed on this day in England was to leave out soul cakes and sing a song for the dead.

This was also a corpse -- a male, judging from the coral arm bands, the tribal scars still discernible on the maggoty face, the painted bone of the warrior caste which still pierced the septum of the rotting nose.

It was this fear which explained the development of a priestly caste whose function in society was to mollify and appease the angry deities.

Keshav Thackeray was a progressive social activist and writer who was against caste biases and played a key role in the Samyukta Maharashtra Chalwal ( literally, United Maharashtra Movement ) in the 1950s to form the Marathi-speaking state of Maharashtra with Mumbai as its capital.

The map was based on the 1901 Census of India in which questions about caste and sub-caste were asked of the respondents, the most explicit in the census's history.

A key figure behind the census was Herbert Hope Risley, best known for the now discounted attribution of all differences in caste to varying proportions of seven racial types.

The use of same word castas, and a method of stratifying people based on " breed, race, caste " was common in colonial Spain, throughout South America and Central America, within the last 500 years.

The term caste was applied to Indian society in the 17th century, via Portuguese casta " breed, race, caste ".

The phrase caste system was first recorded in 1840.

In 1936, Warner published his analysis of society in American deep south, and concluded it was a caste system.

Cox argued in 1948 that caste cannot be compared to race or class, because, according to him, caste was static, the social inferiors in a caste system were ‘ content with their situation ’, and there was no social movement for their betterment.

Ancient Indian text on laws, such as Manusmṛti suggest a caste system was part of Indian society.

The Brahmana caste was further subdivided by these Dutch ethnographers into two: Siwa and Buda.

The Siwa caste was subdivided into five – Kemenuh, Keniten, Mas, Manuba and Petapan.

This classification was to accommodate the observed marriage between higher caste Brahmana men with lower caste women.

For the same behavior or crime, a person of upper caste was treated differently by law than a person of lower caste.