Roman writing tablet from the Vindolanda Roman fort of Hadrian's Wall, in Northumberland ( 1st-2nd century AD ) requesting money to buy 5, 000 measures of cereal used for brewing beer.

The basic needs of the fort were met by a mixture of direct production, purchase and requisition ; in one letter, a request for money to buy 5, 000 modii ( measures ) of braces ( a cereal used in brewing ) shows that the fort bought provisions for a considerable number of people.

In December 2005 Belarus bought 10 L-39 jet trainer aircraft from Ukraine, and plans were announced to buy 18 used Su-30K fighters.

That same year Potter used some of her income and a small inheritance from an aunt to buy Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey in Lancashire in the English Lake District.

If, in England, the wine sold for 70 francs ( or the pound equivalent ), which he then used to buy coal, which he imported into France, and was found to be worth 90 francs in France, he would have made a profit of 40 francs.

The manilla rings of West Africa were one of the currencies used from the 15th century onwards to buy and sell slaves.

The Scoville Memorial Libraries collection began in 1771, when Richard Smith, owner of a local blast furnace, used community contributions to buy 200 books in London.

Historically it used to be possible to buy EPROMs with these register bits on the same chip.

They can return to the buy area within a set amount of time to buy more equipment ( some custom maps included neutral " buy zones " that could be used by both teams ).

It is the largest single donation in the history of CUNY and has been used to buy a landmark building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that is to become the permanent home of the Honors College, and will add support to its endowment.

Capital, in the financial sense, is the money that gives the business the power to buy goods to be used in the production of other goods or the offering of a service.

At the end of the summer term in 1932, Blair returned to Southwold, where his parents had used a legacy to buy their own home.

Courage, dignity, altruism and loyalty were morally redemptive ; Lucian idealised this principle in his story of Sisinnes, who voluntarily fought as a gladiator, earned 10, 000 drachmas and used it to buy freedom for his friend, Toxaris.

Margarete sold her share of the clinic and used the proceeds to buy a plot of land in Waldtrudering, near Munich, where they put up a prefabricated house.

Astor withdrew from the American Fur Company, as well as all his other ventures, and used the money to buy and develop large tracts of Manhattan real estate.

Though he could not afford to buy Wilson's work, Audubon used it to guide him when he had access to a copy.

Much of the Marshall Plan aid would be used by the Europeans to buy manufactured goods and raw materials from the United States and Canada.

The original Macintosh system software was partially based on the Lisa OS, previously released by Apple for the Lisa computer in 1983 and, as part of an agreement allowing Xerox to buy shares in Apple at a favorable rate, it also used concepts from the Xerox PARC Xerox Alto, which Steve Jobs and several other Macintosh team members had previewed.

Once earned, they can be invested or used to buy various goods and services.

He was also given a cash grant by the Prussian Landtag, which he used to buy a new country estate, Varzin, larger than his existing estates combined.

According to Bahā ' al-Dīn, Saladin used his own money to buy the child back:

The make or buy also outlines the standardisation process, where bolts can be used, screws might substitute the bolts so finally that is a standard approach.

He used the blanket for late morning naps when hosts of the night had gone off to jobs and proved reluctant to leave him in their small rooms with their few possessions.

It was a trick they used to try and conceal their identity when they followed trucks to check their speed.

Some look deliberately to devices used by creators in the other arts and apply corresponding methods to their own work.

their reading and thinking gave an extension to their normal blushes about appearing ' Jewish ' in subway, bus, racetrack, movie house, any of the public places that used to make the Jew of my generation self-conscious ( heavy thinkers walking across Seventh Avenue without their glasses on, willing to dare the trucks as long as they didn't look like the ikey-kikey caricature of the Yiddish intellectual ).

Proceeds realized from these pageants are used by the Jaycees to help support their various youth, health, welfare and community betterment activities throughout the state.

It stipulates, in addition, that all amounts remaining as a result of imposing the `` ceiling '', and not used for insuring the `` floor '', be redistributed to those States still below their maximums.

However, it is essential that the various mathematical symbols used in the equations be understood so that the mathematical processes can be done properly and in their correct order.

Union soldiers at times used it for sleeping quarters to escape from the rain or other inclement weather, and some of them left momentoes of their stay by carving their names and small tokens on its walls and beams.

The real question that follows is -- how are those four years used and what is their value as training??

In addition, many of the hard-surface cleaners used for walls and woodwork had their genesis in trisodium orthophosphate, which is still the major ingredient of a number of such products.

This is especially so if the dog, cat or monkey are to be used, in view of their marked anatomical differences from man.

Finally, whatever the techniques used, a twin goal is common to all preventive casework service: to cushion or reduce the force of the stress impact while at the same time to encourage and support family members to mobilize and use their ego capacities.

Byrnes says that invariably thereafter the Soviets used the same security argument to justify their course in Poland.

A careful student has suggested that `` In any new revision ( of the Judicial Code ) the legislators would do well to remember that the allocation of power to the federal courts should be limited to those matters in which their expertise in federal law might be used, leaving to the state judiciaries the primary obligation of pronouncing state law ''.

This, for obvious reasons, makes their techniques superbly useful in studying the psychiatric interview, so useful, in fact, that they have been successfully used to suggest ways to speed diagnosis and to evaluate the progress of therapy.

Wives of the period shamefacedly thought of themselves as `` used '' by their husbands -- and, history indicates, they often quite literally were.

But because teeth sometimes may drift back to their original position, a retaining appliance is used to lock them in place.

They are used mainly for their oil.

`` On the hoof '' was a reference to live cattle and was also used in referrin' to cattle travelin' by trail under their own power as against goin' by rail.

He was well aware that some inventors and their allies used their patents solely for nuisance value.