No one seemed to know for sure what had happened, nor was there any purpose or responsibility in the muttering feet and urgent voices behind the driver, beyond finding out.

His purpose, however, was not to establish an empire, but to assert the principle of divine justice.

Anyone who tried to remedy some of the most glaring defects in our form of democracy was denounced as a traitorous red whose real purpose was the destruction of our government.

But by the time the papers were finally disposed of, the group had informed the world of its purpose, its recommendations, and its belief that Paul Bang-Jensen was not of sound mind.

Against Seebohm formidable foes have taken the field, notably F. W. Maitland, whose Domesday Book And Beyond was written expressly for this purpose, and Sir Paul Vinogradoff whose The Growth Of The Manor had a similar aim.

It was doing very well, too, having reached the center, and was pursuing its way with commendable singleness of purpose when Mr. Podger saw hazard approaching in the shape of a flashy little sports car.

Sing Sing's prisoner strike was motivated by a reasonable purpose, a fair break from parole boards.

But if his purpose was to inspire terror, his action could hardly have miscarried more obviously.

One moment, the road was filled with disciplined troops, marching four by four with a purpose as implacable as death ; ;

No, Kayabashi was bringing his associates here for a specific purpose and Rector would not be able to fathom it until they arrived.

Claire was bitterly disappointed but determined not to let the rebuff daunt her purpose.

Its purpose was to find ways of offsetting the United States' declining balance of trade for 1958 and 1959.

The State Ballet of Rhode Island, the first incorporated group, was formed for the purpose of extending knowledge of the art of ballet in the Community, to promote interest in ballet performances, to contribute to the cultural life of the State, and to provide opportunity for gifted dance students who, for one reason or another, are unable to pursue a career and to develop others for the professional state ; ;

The purpose of this provision was thus explained in the Court's opinion: ``

It was determined that the hours of sunrise and sunset, respectively, should be used for this purpose.

At this date, it seems probable that the name of Serge Prokofieff will appear in the archives of History, as an effective Traditionalist, who was fully aware of the lure and danger of experimentation, and used it as it served his purpose ; ;

-- Although there was some variation in results which must be attributed either to trace impurities or to variation in wall effects, the photochemical exchange in the gas phase was sufficiently reproducible so that it seemed meaningful to compare the reaction rates in different series of reaction tubes for the purpose of obtaining information on the effect of chlorine concentration and of carbon tetrachloride concentration on the reaction rate.

It was stated earlier that one purpose of this study was to extend the analysis of variability of Onset and Completion in each of the 21 growth centers somewhat beyond that provided by the data in Tables 1 and 2.

The purpose set forth at the beginning of this book was first to introduce the reader to a general background knowledge of the various types and capabilities of the forecasting methods already in use, so that he might then be in a position to evaluate for himself the validity of the rather astonishing empirical correlation that is to follow, and to appraise the forecast that its interpretation suggests for the future of farm prices over the years immediately ahead.

One purpose of the change was to attain sympathetic enforcement of rights insured by the Civil War amendments against state interference.

The Justice's elaborate examination of the legislative history of the provision in question suggests that Congress' purpose was merely to make unions suable.

The Book of Jonah appears to have served less purpose in the Qumran community than other texts, as the writings make no references to it.

The emperor's purpose in this was to make the Diocese of Würzburg less unwieldy in size and to give Christianity a firmer footing in the districts of Franconia, east of Bamberg.

Since cycling can be used for the practical purpose of transportation, there can be less need for self-discipline to exercise.

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.

The rival BDS engineering group, who had to keep the project's real purpose a secret among themselves, fearing that if David Chandler, the head of the Keyboard Component team, found out about it he would use his influence to get the project killed, eventually came up with a much less expensive alternative.

It is enough for the purpose of the analysis if it be granted that nowhere else in Coleridge's work, except in these and less noticeably in a few other instances, do these high characteristics occur.

One example of this was the Apache medicine cord or Izze-kloth, whose purpose and use by Apache medicine elders was a mystery to nineteenth century ethnologists because " the Apache look upon these cords as so sacred that strangers are not allowed to see them, much less handle them or talk about them.

The wild form of the plant is less suitable for this purpose, with cultivated plants having been selected for more and better oil content.

Other priorities, such as the speed of the program's execution, or the ability to compile the program for multiple architectures, often make code readability a less important consideration, since code quality depends entirely on its purpose.

The SPR was the first organisation of its kind in the world, its stated purpose being " to approach these varied problems without prejudice or prepossession of any kind, and in the same spirit of exact and unimpassioned enquiry which has enabled science to solve so many problems, once not less obscure nor less hotly debated.

In the private homes of the less wealthy, niches were carved into the walls for the purpose of housing images of familial akhu and to serve as altars of veneration.

* Dal Volturno a Cassino a website that has as its main purpose to collect and disseminate information on both, notably to the battle of Cassino is to all those events less known, but it must be related, temporally preceding and the following.

The first reality show in the modern sense may have been the 12-part 1973 PBS series An American Family, which showed a nuclear family ( filmed in 1971 ) going through a divorce ; unlike many later reality shows, it was more or less documentary in purpose and style.

Berengar, fearing its purpose, avoided appearing, and the king's threats after its session had no effect, since Berengar was sheltered by Geoffrey and by Bishop Eusebius of Angers, and found numerous partisans among less prominent people.

The purpose of carrier systems is to save money by carrying more traffic on less infrastructure.

The purpose of weighting here is to emphasise the parts of the audible spectrum that our ears perceive most readily, and attenuate the parts that contribute less to our perception of loudness, in order to get a measured figure that correlates well with subjective effect.

Using greases specifically designed for this purpose is also a good idea, as these are often better at sealing under vacuum, thicker and so less likely to flow out of the taper, become fluidic at higher temperatures than Vaseline ( a common substitute ) and are more chemically inert than other substitutes.

* It makes code less readable, by obfuscating the purpose of the variable with needless type and scoping prefixes.

What it covers is the application of the results of ' Liber primus ' to the earth, the moon, the tides, the solar system, and the universe: in this respect it has much the same purpose as the final Book 3 of the ' Principia ', but it is written much less formally and is more easily read.

This is why those who practice this Dharma are vegetarians, because they see the slaughter of animals for the purpose of food as violent on the grounds that there are less violent ways to maintain a healthy diet.

The main purpose of technical illustration is to describe or explain these items to a more or less nontechnical audience.

The purpose was to divide up communal tribal land into individual allotments by household, to encourage a model of European-American style subsistence farming on individually owned family plots of or less.

The purpose of this conversion was similar to the old one: Debt holders and annuitants might receive less return in total but a difficult to sell investment was transformed into shares which could be readily traded.