He rejects certain plots because they do not contribute to that end.

They had risen from humble beginnings by their own diligence and astuteness, they were unfettered by the codes that bound nobles like Othon or even the older generation of clerks like Hotham, and they were working for an end that their opponents had never even visualized.

They, however much they were in disagreement with the late Victorians over the method by which Britain was Germanized, agreed with them that the end result was the complete extinction of the previous Celtic population and civilization.

When they lost it, the French artillery moved in, and that was the end for Garibaldi that time, on 30 April 1849.

The economy seems to be sailing along on an even keel and the 1961 hurricane season and auto strikes are at an end so they can't be blamed in November.

In that both cities end their fiscal years on September 30, they could levy taxes for an interim period of nine months, commencing with September 30 and ending with June 30.

Multiplication, subtraction, and addition can then be accomplished as they appear in the equation by starting at the left end of the equation and working toward the right.

We want to know when the Potlatches telephone exactly how many they are planning to bring, so that we won't end up with a splashing mob that looks like Coney Island in August.

In the period since the end of World War 2, -- a period coinciding with merchandising demands for the colorful, the unusual, and the original in signs and displays -- plastics have come on so strong that today they are the acknowledged leaders in the field.

It's a lot quicker and easier to dimension the kitchen to fit the cabinets and erect the end wall after they are all in place.

The development of the Andrena larvae is very rapid, so that by the end of spring they have already pupated and become adults.

The consuming public has used up a good part of these liquid assets, or they have been drained by the rising price level, and we have apparently gotten to the end of the line in making consumer or home mortgage terms easier.

In the end, Picasso and Braque plumped for the representational, and it would seem they did so deliberately.

The details of the setting of `` Neutral Tones '' are not, strictly speaking, metaphorical, but they combine to create a mood which is appropriate both to a dismal winter day and to the end of love, and in this way love and weather, the emotions and the elements, symbolize each other in a way that is common to many of Hardy's best poems ( `` Weathers '', `` The Darkling Thrush '', and `` During Wind and Rain '', for example ) and to some moving passages in the novels as well ( Far From The Madding Crowd is full of scenes constructed in this way ).

Scarcity of paper caused many Southerners to adopt the practice of cross-writing, i.e., after writing from left to right of the page in the usual manner, they gave the sheet a half turn and wrote from end to end across the lines previously written.

Not until they sailed home at the end of the day, through a sea strewn with bodies and the wreckage of houses, were they aware of what had happened.

All the slaves joined in requesting that they be allowed to delay their departure until the end of the planting season, so that they could get in `` their own little produce ''.

She was closing and within one more bound would have been able to reach the rear end of the bay, but -- and here Jones and Loveless and Ulyate were holding breath for all they were worth -- she never quite caught up that last bound.

But they brought back few pelts to pay their debts, and soon French trade in the region was at an end.

Indications as late as the top of the sixth were that the Birds were to end their victory draught as they coasted along with a 3-to-o advantage.

And then, as they become aware that they have reached the end of their patience, what do they, to their dismay, learn for the first time about themselves??

When we'd finished our regular rounds, Pete pointed me toward the small ward at the end of the floor.

Sir John Tenniel's illustration of the Caterpillar ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ) | Caterpillar for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whose head can be viewed as being a human male's face with a pointed nose and pointy chin or being the head end of an actual caterpillar, with the first two right " true " legs visible.

The direction that each face down card is pointed indicates which side won each trick, so that at the end of the hand, the number of tricks taken by each side can be determined.

* In a diode, it is the negative terminal at the pointed end of the arrow symbol, where current flows out of the device.

Nevertheless, in the end, as Derrida pointed out, he made of linguistics " the regulatory model ", and " for essential, and essentially metaphysical, reasons had to privilege speech, and everything that links the sign to phone ".

Another factor, more recently pointed out, was the way in which Christianity combined its promise of a general resurrection of the dead with the traditional Greek belief that true immortality depended on the survival of the body, with Christianity adding practical explanations of how this was going to actually happen at the end of the world.

alt = Man sitting with legs covered in boat that tapers to a point at each end holding long, pointed, wooden pole

The earliest was the bow ard, which consists of a draft-pole ( or beam ) pierced by a thinner vertical pointed stick called the head ( or body ), with one end being the stilt ( handle ) and the other a share ( cutting blade ) that was dragged through the topsoil to cut a shallow furrow ideal for most cereal crops.

It consists of a heavy blade mounted atop a wooden or metal pole with a pointed metal counter weight used for striking and stabbing on the opposite end.

The maximum return would be detected with an antenna at right angles to the target, and a minimum with the antenna pointed directly at it ( end on ).

During the late Middle Ages, two forms of " v " developed, which were both used for its ancestor u and modern v. The pointed form " v " was written at the beginning of a word, while a rounded form " u " was used in the middle or end, regardless of sound.

The “ four crosses ” are Christian crosses but “ formy ” means the arms of the cross flare at the ends and fitchy ” means that the lower arm has a pointed end.

The mandibles are pointed, while the maxillae end in flat, toothed " blades ".

On the other end a full length post, the tractor post, is placed with the pointed end upwards with a ring on the bottom stapled to the other corner post, the latch post, and on top a ring is stapled to the tractor post, the post is tied with a Stockgrower's Lash or one of numerous other opening bindings.

The shuttle is normally pointed at each end to allow passage through the shed.

It is about 2200 m², with pointed arches decorated with diaper work, supported on pairs of columns in white marble, 216 in all, which were alternately plain and decorated by bands of patterns in gold and colors, made of glass tesserae, arranged either spirally or vertically from end to end of each shaft.

The view from the lower ( western ) end of the Valley contains the great granite monolith El Capitan on the left, and Cathedral Rocks then the pointed obelisk of Sentinel Rock to the south.

Media covering the convention quickly pointed out that if one added the word " Party " to the end of the party's name, the resulting initials were " CCRAP " ( humorously pronounced " see-crap " or just " crap ") even though it, like the Bloc Québécois, didn't actually have the word party in its name.

Some have pointed instead of rounded ends, some have the end of one loop bent slightly to make it easier to insert sheets of paper, and some have wires with undulations or barbs to get a better grip.

Nevertheless, in the end, as Derrida pointed out, he made of linguistics " the regulatory model ", and " for essential, and essentially metaphysical, reasons had to privilege speech, and everything that links the sign to phone ".

At the end of the presentation, Wolfgang Pauli pointed out that it was not compatible with a semi-classical technique Fermi had previously adopted in the case of inelastic scattering.

Defenders of the book have pointed out it was unusual for its time in being quite dark for a children's book, with the " antagonists " not being adults or monsters ( as is the case even for most of Dahl's books ) but the naughty children, who receive sadistic revenges in the end.