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.

In particular, the Metropolitan Community Church was founded specifically to serve the Christian LGBT community.

In addition to the churches, these missionaries often also founded schools to serve the local community.

According to legend Romulus established the Senate after he founded Rome by personally selecting the most noble men ( wealthy men with legitimate wives and children ) to serve as a council for the city.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America ( SFWA ) was founded by Damon Knight in 1965 as a non-profit organization to serve the community of professional science fiction authors, 24 years after his essay " Unite or Fie!

The International Society of Cryptozoology ( ISC ) was founded in 1982 in Washington, D. C. to serve as a scholarly center for documenting and evaluating evidence of unverified animals ; that is, animal species or forms which have been reported in some manner but which have not been scientifically proven to exist.

Archaeological evidence, such as a cuneiform inscription, indicates that the Urartian military fortress of Erebuni ( Էրեբունի ) was founded in 782 BC ( 29 years earlier than Rome ) by the orders of King Argishti I at the site of current-day Yerevan, to serve as a fort and citadel guarding against attacks from the north Caucasus.

The Bow Group, founded in 1951, is the oldest centre-right think tank and many of its members have gone on to serve as Members of Parliament or Members of the European Parliament.

President Barack Obama is of Yankee descent on his mother's side ; his high school was Punahou School, founded to serve the children of Yankee missionaries to Hawaii.

Extreme cruelty has marked his 11-year reign but has founded schools and provided physicians to serve the poor of Constantinople.

Trapani was founded by the Elymians to serve as the port of the nearby city of Erice ( ancient Eryx ), which overlooks it from Monte San Giuliano.

It was then perhaps that the settlement of Cassiope was founded to serve as a base for the King of Epirus ' expeditions.

In 1682, William Penn founded the city to serve as capital of Pennsylvania Colony.

In 1975 he founded the Abode of the Message, which continues to serve as the central residential community of the Sufi Order International, a conference and retreat center, and a center of esoteric study.

The business was originally founded to serve the manufactured housing industry by Robert DuBois, who later sold the company to Goshen Rubber Company.

In consequence, a large service sector was established to serve the growing population, and in the first decades of the 20th century, Campinas could already boast of an opera house, theaters, banks, movie theaters, radio stations, a philharmonic orchestra, two newspapers ( Correio Popular and Diário do Povo ), a good public education system ( with the Escola Normal de Campinas and the Colégio Culto à Ciência ), and hospitals, such as the Santa Casa de Misericórdia ( a charity for poor people ) and the Casa de Saúde de Campinas ( for the Italian community, formely known as Circolo Italiani Uniti ), and the most important Brazilian research center in agricultural sciences, the Instituto Agronômico de Campinas, which was founded by Emperor Pedro II.

In 1819, the town was founded to serve the University of North Carolina and grew up around it.

Later, University College ( 1945 ) was founded to serve part-time, commuting students and Livingston College ( 1969 ) was created by the Rutgers Trustees, ensuring that the interests of ethnically diverse New Jersey students were met.

Although he was in St. Louis, Missouri at the time, apparently he was appointed to serve as president of the Provisional Republic of China, when it was founded in 1912.

While at Stanford, Toledo founded and continues to serve as the President of the Global Center for Development and Democracy, based in Latin America, the United States, and the European Union which ' aims to help Peru and Latin American countries build institutional bases for greater stability, with a wide political commitment to democracy, that is decentralized and equal to all ".

Sierra Leone, founded by the British to serve as a colony for freed slaves, has a Creole ethnic group whose ancestors migrated from Canada, where many were Americans who had fought with the British and settled there after the American Revolutionary War ; the British West Indies, and various parts of West Africa.

A sister company, Book Inventory Systems ( BIS ) ( 1976 – 1994 ), was founded to serve as a wholesaler for and provide the brothers ' custom inventory system to regional independent bookstores such as John Rollins, Thackeray's, Schuler Books, and Joseph-Beth Booksellers.

The manor became a popular resort for Londoners due to this rural aspect and many public houses were founded to serve the needs of both visitors and travellers on the turnpike.

There are also private and alternative schools such as Dvorsky College Preparatory on Crescent Heights, which was founded to serve the Russian speaking community.

Named in honor of George Washington, the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital.

James Cameron went on to serve as the Indiana State Director of Civil Liberties from 1942 – 1950 and founded three local chapters of the NAACP.