Knowledge was sought only to rid oneself of religious fears and superstitions, the two primary fears to be eliminated being fear of the gods and of death.

Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by binge eating and purging, or consuming a large amount of food in a short amount of time followed by an attempt to rid oneself of the food consumed ( purging ), typically by vomiting, taking a laxative or diuretic, and / or excessive exercise.

More recent work by scholars suggests that the Ajivika were perhaps misrepresented by Jain and Buddhist sources. Brockhorst's claim is that, whereas the Jains teach that one can both stop the influx of new karma and rid oneself of old karma through ascetic practice, Gosāla taught that one could only stop the influx of new karma.

It means to rid oneself of unwanted thoughts, i. e., thoughts that interfere with the ideology of the Party.

These internal struggles allowed the northern vassal state of Moscovy to rid itself of the " Tatar Yoke " at the Great stand on the Ugra river in 1480.

Thus rid of two potential internal threats, the Persians left their camp, and prepared for battle.

Meanwhile, in China, Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution ( 1966 – 76 ) to rid himself of internal enemies and re-establish his sole leadership of party and country ; and to prevent the development of Russian-style bureaucratic communism of the USSR.

These occur where an excited nucleus has zero spin, and thus is unable to rid itself of energy by gamma emission, but also has insufficient decay energy to decay by internal pair creation.

Khorloogiin Choibalsan, who had recently been appointed minister of internal affairs, exclaimed “ We have to get rid of this feudal trouble-maker Amar!

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Colbert also intended to get rid of internal tariffs, and to tax the nobility, but failed.

This means that there is never any reason to fight with, coerce, or try to get rid of a part ; it allows the IFS method to promote internal connection and harmony.

Seen in this light, pride can be conceptualized as a hierarchy-enhancing emotion, as its experience and display helps rid negotiations of conflict.

Zoe has misgivings about the plan, since Patience once shot Mal, but Mal is desperate to get rid of the hot cargo, and bears no grudge since he was shot in a " perfectly legitimate conflict of interest.

Daniel intervened in the ensuing conflict, attempting to stop his two friends from fighting, but at that point, a bomb planet on the asteroid by Scorponok intended to rid him of Sixshot exploded, apparently killing the ninja.

Soon after, local Serbs, police and paramilitaries began one of the most notorious campaigns of ethnic cleansing in the conflict, designed to permanently rid the town of its Bosniak population.

To get rid of the books from the past ( and their copies ), the government implemented a program using the firemen to burn the books ( now that houses were being rebuilt to be fire-resistant ) and placate the masses.

During a search authorized by a General warrant ( possibly set up by Sandwich, who wanted to get rid of Wilkes ), a version of The Essay on Woman was discovered set up on the press of a printer whom Wilkes had almost certainly used.

Rosco frequently initiated car chases with Bo and Luke Duke ( whom Hogg wanted to get rid of due to them constantly exposing his corrupt schemes ), but the Duke boys were usually able to easily elude Rosco by outwitting him, with him usually meeting some accident in his patrol car as a result ( from which he would nearly always escape uninjured-only two episodes, the fourth season's " Coltrane Vs. Duke " and season six's " Too Many Roscos " toy with the concept of him being hurt during one of these escapades ).

The motivations for the English Civil War ( 1642 – 51 ), the American War of Independence ( 1775 – 83 ), and French Revolution ( 1789 – 99 ) partly derived from the desire of the bourgeoisie to rid themselves of the feudal trammels and royal encroachments upon their personal liberty, commercial rights, and the ownership of property.

As " First Woman ", according to the script, she played the mother in " The Wolf at the Door ", a woman who insisted Macbeth was a murder mystery, the wife Mr. Preble wanted to get rid of, Miss Alma Winege ( who wanted to ship Thurber 36 copies of Grandma Was a Nudist ), a woman helping to update old poetry, Walter Mitty's wife, and the narrator of " The Little Girl and The Wolf ".

Scum ( also known as President, Kings, and many other names ), an Americanized version of Dai Hin Min, is a card game for three or more in which players race to get rid of all of the cards in their hands in order to become President in the following round.

This led her former pimp, Alabaster Jones ( voiced by Snoop Dogg ), to believe he was her new pimp, a role he was forced to act out to rid her of him.

After some final changes to get rid of the last remnants of D & D ( e. g. the game contained a table of " Saving-throws " similar to D & D ), Simbalist and Backhaus published the first edition of their game-now renamed Chivalry & Sorcery-shortly after the release of the first edition of Advanced D & D.

After having Cronauer as a thorn in his side for a number of months now, Dickerson devises a plot to get rid of Cronauer once and for all by sending him and Garlick to interview soldiers in the field near An Lộc – knowing in advance that the only road leading into this particular area has been captured by the Viet Cong ( VC ), a fact which he keeps from the pair.

Babbitt worked with director Jack Kinney, another " Goofy man " ( meaning that they worked together on the Goofy shorts ), as Disney began to look for ways to be rid of Babbitt.

During a search authorised by a General Warrant ( possibly set up by Sandwich, who wanted to get rid of Wilkes ), a version of The Essay on Woman was discovered set up on the press of a printer whom Wilkes had almost certainly used.

* Facing ( retail ), getting rid of gaps on shelves to create the appearance of a fuller shelf

Elizabeth's closest advisor, Sir William Cecil ( Trevor Howard ), is anxious to get rid of Mary, but Elizabeth fears to set a precedent by putting an anointed monarch to death.

By practicing prāyaṣcitta ( repentance ), a soul gets rid of sins, and commits no transgressions ; he who correctly practises prāyaṣcitta gains the road and the reward of the road, he wins the reward of good conduct.

The main branch of Confucianism, however, argues that human nature must be nurtured through ritual ( li 理 ), culture ( wen 文 ) and other things, while the Daoists argued that the trappings of society were to be gotten rid of.

Hashing originated in December 1938 in Kuala Lumpur, then in the Federated Malay States ( now Malaysia ), when a group of British colonial officers and expatriates began meeting on Monday evenings to run, in a fashion patterned after the traditional British Paper Chase or " Hare and Hounds ", to rid themselves of the excesses of the previous weekend.

In other matters ( especially in that known as the Plot of the Placards in the spring of 1802 ), Fouché was thought to have saved the Jacobins from the vengeance of the Consulate, and Bonaparte decided to rid himself of a man who had too much power to be desirable as a subordinate.

Rhyd an older form of ' Res ', which is a Cornish equivalent to a ford ( across a river ), a common Celtic word: Old Cornish rid ; Welsh rhyd ( Old Welsh rit ); Old Breton rit or ret, Gaulish ritu -, all from Indo-European * prtus derived word in-tu from the root * per « to cross, to go through »; Proto-Germanic * furdúz ( English ford, German Furt ); Latin portus, all related to the Celtic word.

She is also known as a demonic spirit who feeds off your darkness ( namely, depression and sadness ), this makes the night hag stronger, more powerful and makes her harder to get rid of.

As the agreement did not cover books that were damaged ( or second hand ), shops that wished to sell " new " books below cover price for any reason ( for example to get rid of obsolete stock or titles that were not otherwise selling ) adopted a simple strategy which meant that they were still sticking to the terms of the agreement: they deliberately defaced or damaged the book ( s ).

After both experience an epiphany, the brothers, together with their friend ( David Della Rocco ), set out to rid their home city of Boston, Massachusetts of crime and evil ; all the while being pursued by FBI Special Agent Paul Smecker ( Willem Dafoe ).

It was commonly used during the mid-1960s by Mexican-American activists, who, in attempt to reassert their civil rights, tried to rid the word of its polarizing negative connotation by reasserting a unique ethnic identity and political consciousness, proudly identifying themselves as Chicanos.

With end of martial law in 1987 and the introduction of democracy in the 1990s after the Wild Lily student movement, an effort began to re-assert Taiwanese identity and culture while trying to get rid of many Chinese influences imposed by the Kuomintang.

There is a back region or stage that can also be considered as a hidden or private place where individuals can be themselves and get rid of their role or identity in society.

Solek gets rid of his identity papers, and tells the Germans he is " Josef Peters ", a Volksdeutsche ( ethnic German ) from Latvia whose parents were arrested by the Soviets.

He spares her life only after she refuses to publish the identity of Batman and gets rid of all of the evidence she has to that effect.

Turner was rid of his demons by channeling them into the identity of the Bronze Tiger, a masked assassin working for the League.

Realizing all hope of having a happy life with Susan and Stephanie has been ruined, Jerry quits his job and creates a new identity for himself as Bill Hoskins, applying for a job as an insurance agent in another town, where he begins to court another widow while planning to get rid of Susan and Stephanie.

The goal for the human being then is to be rid of them by " unwinding " them or through " shakings " caused by progressive variously opposite life experiences over many human lives in reincarnation, thereby eventually unveiling and revealing the true nature of reality and the true identity of the self.

There is also a back region or stage that can also be considered as a hidden or private place where individuals can be themselves and get rid of their role or identity in society.