The place had been cheap -- just the little he had left after Amelia's burial -- and it would serve its purpose.

New machinery of coordination should not be our primary objective in the foreseeable future -- though perhaps the `` political general staff '' of Western leaders proposed by Sir Anthony Eden would serve a useful purpose.

It is the purpose of this magazine to serve as an outlet for student creative writing.

In the process, his native endowments were stretched, strengthened and disciplined to serve their human purpose.

A slab of rock with an iron staple in it to attach a chain to would serve the purpose, as would any dense object of appropriate weight ( e. g. an engine block ).

Some scholars believe that the apologetic view of Luke ’ s work is overemphasized and that it should not be regarded as a “ major aim of the Lucan writings .” While Munck believes that purpose of Luke ’ s work is not that clear-cut and sympathizes with other claims, he believes that Luke ’ s work can function as an apology only in the sense that it “ presents a defense of Christianity and Paul ” and may serve to “ clarify the position of Christianity within Jewry and within the Roman Empire .” Pervo disagrees that Luke ’ s work is an apology and even that it could possibly be addressed to Rome because he believes that “ Luke and Acts speak to insiders, believers in Jesus .” Freedman believes that Luke is writing an apology but that his goal is “ not to defend the Christian movement as such but to defend God ’ s ways in history .”

Arbitration may also serve a distinct purpose: as an alternative to strikes and lockouts as a means of resolving labor disputes.

Although integration is the primary purpose of these organizations, they also serve as forums in which Brazil can exercise its leadership and develop consensus around its positions on regional and global issues.

Within the genomes of higher organisms, large parts of the DNA do not serve any obvious purpose.

The theme is of retribution: David's sin against Uriah the Hittite is punished by God through the destruction of his own family, and its purpose is to serve as an apology for the coronation of Bathsheba's son Solomon instead of his older brother Adonijah.

* The belief that the purpose of philosophy is primarily to serve as an ethical and practical guide.

These controls serve the purpose to maintain the system's quality attributes, among them confidentiality, integrity, availability, accountability and assurance.

" His overall conclusion was that the games " serve a limited, but useful, purpose " and that the " strength of the Channel F offering is in its excellent educational line for children.

Critics of planned economies argue that planners cannot detect consumer preferences, shortages, and surpluses with sufficient accuracy and therefore cannot efficiently co-ordinate production ( in a market economy, a free price system is intended to serve this purpose ).

One critic states of psychologists that " Instead of replacing ' metaphysical ' terms such as ' desire ' and ' purpose ', they used it to legitimize them by giving them operational definitions ... the initial, quite radical operationalist ideas eventually came to serve as little more than a ' reassurance fetish ' ( Koch 1992 ) for mainstream methodological practice.

While both versions serve much the same purpose, the details of the protocol for IPv4 and IPv6 are sufficiently different that they may be considered separate protocols.

However, there are organizations developing academic badges that would serve a similar purpose to a traditional degree.

Some examples of rhyming slang may serve the same purpose — to call a person a berk sounds less offensive than to call a person a cunt, though berk is short for Berkeley Hunt, which rhymes with cunt.

It was the first tool showing the AI ​​ defined by Edward Feigenbaum in his book about the Japanese Fifth Generation, Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World ( 1983 ): " The machines will have reasoning power: they will automatically engineer vast amounts of knowledge to serve whatever purpose humans propose, from medical diagnosis to product design, from management decisions to education ", " The reasoning animal has, perhaps inevitably, fashioned the reasoning machine ", " the reasoning power of these machines matches or exceeds the reasoning power of the humans who instructed them and, in some cases, the reasoning power of any human performing such tasks ".

Members of the free software movement advocate that works which serve a practical purpose should also be free.

" They serve a valuable purpose in paleontology because they provide direct evidence of the predation and diet of extinct organisms.

They have been used to name entities such as variables, functions, and commands whose purpose is unimportant and serve only to demonstrate a concept.

Along with the flying of flags and the painting of kerb stones, the murals serve a territorial purpose, often associated with gang use.

Preventing access to firearms can serve a double purpose in that it can also protect the firearm from theft.

The binding of glucose to amino acids in the hemoglobin takes place spontaneously ( without the help of an enzyme ) in many proteins, and is not known to serve a useful purpose.

This wall would serve as the main defense for the acropolis until the 5th century.

The voir-dire is usually set with 16 prospective jurors, which the prosecution and defense may dismiss the 6 persons they do not desire to serve on the jury.

Two of his foster brothers served as major generals in the Union Army during the Civil War: Hugh Boyle Ewing, later an ambassador and author, and Thomas Ewing, Jr., who would serve as defense attorney in the military trials against the Lincoln conspirators.

A permanent group of party members who would serve as the Saalschutz Abteilung ( hall defense detachment ) for the DAP gathered around Emil Maurice after the February 1920 incident at the Hofbräuhaus.

A disproportionate share of state court judges previously served as prosecutors, or less commonly as criminal defense attorneys or trial lawyers, although no particular background as an attorney is required to serve as a judge.

In " The New Face of War ", a story in Star Wars: Republic, Queen Jamillia appoints the droid to serve as liaison to the Jedi during that campaign following the defense of Naboo and the bio-plague of Ohma-D ' un by the Separatists.

Early in 1961 the President appointed General Maxwell Taylor to serve as his military representative and provide liaison with the government agencies and defense and intelligence establishments on military-political issues confronting the administration.

The first pair, the chelicerae, serve in feeding and defense.

It was intended to serve two purposes ; to prevent Soviet bombers from homing in on American cities by using radio or TV stations as beacons, and to provide essential civil defense information.

Daggett took up arms in defense but was taken prisoner, and was forced to serve as a guide.

In United States criminal law, insanity may serve as an affirmative defense to criminal acts and thus does not need to negate an element of the prosecution's case such as general or specific intent.

Fort Snelling nevertheless continued to serve as headquarters of United States Army Reserve 205th Infantry Brigade comprised three light infantry battalions and attached field artillery, cavalry, air defense artillery, combat engineers, and supporting logistics units throughout the Upper Midwest.

They continue to serve in this role during the final defense of Mindanao town of Dalirig in the Cagayan Sector.

An additional advantage of Qiqihar may have been its location at the junction of a northbound road ( to Nenjiang ) and a westbound one ( to Mongolia ), enabling its garrison to serve for the defense both against the Russians and the Ölöt Mongols.

Dershowitz views the effectiveness of the abuse defense as a " lawless invitation to vigilantism " which will serve only to extend the cycle of violence.

Neutrophils usually make up 50-70 % of circulating white blood cells and serve as the primary defense against infections by destroying bacteria in the blood.

The common name comes from the four large, wart-like protrusions found on the head of the warthog, which serve as a fat reserve and are used for defense when males fight.

The seedless wild parsnip fruit are preferred by certain herbivores, and thus serve as a " decoy defense " against seed predation.

The status of docent, or an equivalent scientific qualification, is also required to serve on doctoral committees and to serve as an opponent at a dissertation defense.

Tusks serve to dig for water, salt, and rocks, to debark trees, as levers for maneuvering fallen trees and branches, for work, for display, for marking trees, as weapon for offense and defense, as trunk-rests, as protection for the trunk.

On May 5, 1990, the New Armenian Army ( NAA ), a defense force that was to serve as a separate entity from the Soviet Union's military, was created.

: We ... shall continue to serve in the Israel Defense Forces and the Air Force for every mission in defense of the state of Israel.