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 .”

While professional grading has reduced the number of counterfeits foisted upon investors and has improved buyer confidence substantially, the goal of creating a sight-unseen market for coins remains somewhat elusive.

While the ride was originally founded with the idea of drawing attention to how unfriendly the city was to bicyclists, the leaderless structure of Critical Mass makes it impossible to assign it any one specific goal.

" While the most desirable option is a varied and sufficient diet, this goal is not always achievable, at least not in the short term.

While spectators ran on the field, Hurst ran on towards the goal, stating later that he aimed for the top left corner knowing that, should it miss, the resulting delay would eat away valuable seconds.

While " glasnost " is associated with freedom of speech, the main goal of this policy was to make the country's management transparent and open to debate, thus circumventing the narrow circle of apparatchiks who previously exercised complete control of the economy.

While thousands of political prisoners and many dissidents were released in the spirit of glasnost, Gorbachev's original goal of using glasnost and perestroika to reform the Soviet Union was not achieved.

While in European classical music elements of interpretation, ornamentation and accompaniment are sometimes left to the performer's discretion, the performer's primary goal is to play a composition as it was written.

While Rousseau's notion of the progressive moral degeneration of mankind from the moment civil society established itself diverges markedly from Spinoza's claim that human nature is always and everywhere the same ... for both philosophers the pristine equality of the state of nature is our ultimate goal and criterion ... in shaping the " common good ", volonté générale, or Spinoza's mens una, which alone can ensure stability and political salvation.

While other young men could become knights, in theory, it was nearly impossible for them to achieve that goal, especially for those from the lowest class.

While data reduction ( compression, be it lossy or lossless ) is a main goal of transform coding, it also allows other goals: one may represent data more accurately for the original amount of space – for example, in principle, if one starts with an analog or high-resolution digital master, an MP3 file of a given size should provide a better representation than a raw uncompressed audio in WAV or AIFF file of the same size.

While working toward his goal of improved insecticide, Schrader experimented with numerous compounds, eventually leading to the preparation of tabun.

While the ultimate goal of taxonomy includes describing the ' tree of life ' - the evolutionary path connecting all species-in fieldwork one needs to be able to separate one taxon from another.

While the content of the letters was subtle in their inferred goal of securing his authority, when read in total, his goal becomes more obvious:

While each wrestling match is ostensibly a competition of athletics and strategy, the goal of each match from a business standpoint is to excite and entertain the audience.

While some Palestinian leaders say that the peace process is intended to achieve a permanent peace with the State of Israel, others maintain that their goal is to destroy Israel.

While Boniface was not able to safeguard the church from property seizures by the local nobility, he did achieve one goal, the adoption of stricter guidelines for the Frankish clergy, which often hailed directly from the nobility.

While demanding and goal oriented he was also criticized for being unwilling to countenance alternate viewpoints and for detaching himself from day-to-day affairs when the ground war ceased and he prepared for retirement.

While some Haredi ( including Hasidic ) yeshivas ( also known as " Talmudical / Rabbinical schools or academies ") do grant official semicha (" ordination ") to many students wishing to become rabbis, most of the students within the yeshivas engage in learning Torah or Talmud without the goal of becoming rabbis or holding any official positions.

While the proclaimed goal was to level school quality up, the converse claim was made that the grammar schools ' excellence was being sacrificed with little to show in the way of improvement of other schools ( for details and sources on this and related arguments, see article on Debates on the grammar school ).

While remaining upright may be the primary goal of beginning riders, they must ( in order to voluntarily turn, accelerate or decelerate ) allow themselves to ' fall ' in the appropriate direction, before correcting it.

While he initially sought annexation by the U. S., Houston dropped that goal during his first term.

While another goal from Fontaine of France added to his impressive tally, it was not enough to prevent Brazil thundering into the Final as a Pelé hat-trick gave them a 5 – 2 victory.

While initially aimed at natural language processing, the language has since then stretched far into other areas like theorem proving, expert systems, games, automated answering systems, ontologies and sophisticated control systems.

While key deliverables of the paper process must be maintained, benefits of real-time data input validation, traceability, and automated decision point routing may not be anticipated at the early planning stages of the project.

While PageMaker's pasteboard metaphor closely simulated the process of creating layouts manually, Ventura Publisher automated the layout process through its use of tags / style sheets and automatically generated indices and other body matter.

* While the power is off, visual inspection, automated optical inspection.

While the establishment of Social Security predated the invention of the modern digital computer, punched card data processing was a mature technology, and the Social Security system made extensive use of automated unit record equipment from the program's inception.

While the Millennium train concept is an evolution of the Tangara concept ( manufactured by Goninan ), the Millennium train introduced new features such as internal electronic destination indicators, automated digital voice announcements ( DVA ) for upcoming stops, a return to reversible seating, surveillance cameras, wider stairways, a new safety yellow colour scheme, and push-button opened internal doors.

While commands exist that enable a range of control over the tank, successful designs tend to be automated.

While not easy to find in Norway, the Syrian coins are still used in automated machines there with such frequency that Posten Norge, the Norwegian postal service, decided to close many of their coins-to-cash machines on February 18, 2006, with plans to develop a system able to differentiate between the two coins.

While its linear motors and steerable axles are relatively rare, the Innovia Metro has a number of competitors in the field of automated metros, including the VAL ( first used in Lille, France ) and the Meteor technology ( used by Line 14 of the Paris Métro ).

While the key carrier technology of the first Industrial Revolution ( 1770 – 1850 ) was based on water-powered mechanization, the second Kondratiev ( 1850 – 1900 ) was enabled by steam-powered technology, the third ( 1900 – 1940 ) was characterized by the electrification of social and productive organization, the fourth by motorization and the automated mobilization of society ( 1940 – 1970 ), and the most recent one by the digitization of social systems.

While the fourth party may at times take the place of the third party, i. e. automated negotiation, it will frequently be used by the third party as a tool for assisting the process .< ref > E.

While not as cost effective to maintain as an automated system, this allowed Artifact, and Tulga, to keep their promise of a changing, interactive world.

While large observatory instruments may be highly automated, few are operated without attendants.

While this technology has allowed some of the process to be automated, many media monitoring agencies still offer the services of trained professionals to review and validate results.

While diary-based surveys concentrated on quarterly “ sweeps ” periods, the industry has been pushed towards year-round measurement, due to the automated LPM system.

While a meaningless SKU will be more difficult for humans to relate a product, automated systems can do so without any limitation.

While CPR is given ( either manually, or through automated equipment such as AutoPulse ), members of the team consider eight forms of potentially reversible causes for cardiac arrest, commonly abbreviated as " 6Hs & 5Ts " according to 2005 / 2010 AHA Advanced Cardiac Life Support ( ACLS ).

While in the Kornbluth short story civilization is kept afloat by a small group of dedicated geniuses, their function has been replaced by automated systems in Idiocracy.

While other oboe manufacturers have moved to a largely automated process, using computerized milling machines and standardized parts, Laubin still does everything essentially by hand, using belt-driven lathes, drills, and hand tools.

While the system is automated and typically protected from outside intrusion, industry leaders have expressed concern over such data mining.

While each implementation is unique, most share several traits: an image editing workstation as the cornerstone, often a database-driven digital asset management system like Media Pro 1 to manage the collection as a whole, a RAW conversion tool like Adobe Photoshop Lightroom or Capture One, and in many cases the software that came with the camera is used as an automated tool to " upload " photos to the computer.