While
the chief purpose of a personal injury is to recover damages for the plaintiff rather than punish the defendant, it is sometimes possible to seek punitive damages for intentional or particularly malicious misconduct.
The chief purpose of the renovation was to repair cracks in the stucco facade, which runs 75 feet along the fronts of three of the brownstones.
It showcases
the chief purpose of your research and related work.
The chief purpose of the ideas in this section of our website is to stimulate your thinking about training.
The chief purpose of hiring university scientists now is to make more financial profits for their employer (see my early article in the Scientists category on «What's the New Main Job of Faculty Scientists Today?»)
At one time theologians argued that
the chief purpose of humankind was to glorify God.
Now it would seem that the logic has been reversed:
the chief purpose of God is to glorify humankind.
The second thing we may note is that in the plot of each of this group of myths there is both a male and a female figure, and the love affair or marriage between them is closely associated with the renewal of growth,
the chief purpose of the myth.
Protecting perpetrators and integrating them into the new society, however, was not
the chief purpose of the TRC.
Verse 23 defines
the chief purpose of the church as forgiveness of sins and the withholding of forgiveness or judgment.
The second
chief purpose of classifying is to facilitate control of things.
That insight had such significance for John Paul that he would return to it fourteen years later in Fides et Ratio, writing that
the chief purpose of theology «is seen to be the understanding of God's kenosis, a grand and mysterious truth for the human mind, which finds it inconceivable that suffering and death can express a love which gives itself and seeks nothing in return.»
It is also easy to lead children to sing simple songs for
the chief purpose of having fun, to the extent that they get whipped up in a frenzy of enjoyable emotion, which we teach them (even if only inadvertently so) is the mark of true worship.
The way he situates marriage alongside virginity is, to my modern eyes, certainly sobering; it's unromanticized, as it is made clear that
the chief purpose of marriage is the begetting of children, and that is, in a certain sense, inferior to virginity.
The chief purpose of these scores is to have a measure of your company's financial stability.
Temperature, oxygen and infection regulation are
the chief purposes of incubators.
«One of
the chief purposes of civil marriage is to connect children with their biological parents, and particularly with their fathers.
Not exact matches
«General Mills» decision to draw attention to the issue
of declining bee populations marks the continuation
of its commitment to
purpose - based marketing, which means brands will go beyond traditional statements such as product benefit in order to align with what's really important to consumers,» Cossette
chief creative officer Peter Ignazi told AdWeek.
The Air Force Court
of Appeals in May 2017 also reversed a conviction in the sexual assault case U.S. v. Boyce after finding that public statements by Sens. Claire McCaskill and Kirsten Gillibrand regarding the «Marines United» scandal earlier this year created «the appearance
of unlawful command influence» in the case, as retired Col. Don Christensen, a former Air Force
chief prosecutor and current president
of the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders, told Task &
Purpose at the time.
But even women whose businesses aren't explicitly focused on altruistic goals can profit from embracing a
purpose, according to Trisa Thompson, Dell's
chief responsibility officer, who led the development
of, and oversees the progress
of, the corporation's 22 core social responsibility goals.
«When I stepped into the
chief executive role in 2011, I was more connected to all facets
of the company and saw for the first time how important it was to have a shared sense
of purpose and identity that resonated across the entire organization.»
Section 162 (m)
of the Internal Revenue Code imposes limitations on the deductibility for corporate federal income tax
purposes of remuneration in excess
of $ 1 million paid to the
chief executive officer,
chief financial officer and each
of the three next most highly compensated executive officers
of a public company.
For the individual serving as the
chief executive officer
of the Company at the end
of the taxable year and for the individuals serving as officers
of the Company or a subsidiary at the end
of such year who are among the three highest compensated officers (other than the
chief executive officer and
chief financial officer) for proxy reporting
purposes, Section 162 (m)
of the Code limits the amount
of compensation otherwise deductible by the Company and its subsidiaries for such year to $ 1,000,000 for each such individual except to the extent that such compensation is «performance - based compensation.»
Under Section 162 (m), the amount
of compensation earned by the
Chief Executive Officer, and any executive whose compensation is required to be reported to stockholders by reason
of such executive being among the three other most highly - paid executive officers
of the Company (excluding the
Chief Financial Officer) in the year for which a deduction is claimed by the Company (including its subsidiaries) is limited to $ 1 million per person, except that compensation that is performance - based will be excluded for
purposes of calculating the amount
of compensation subject to the $ 1 million limitation.
Let's put aside for a moment the real (and futile)
purpose of President Donald Trump's executive order last week calling for postal reforms: He wants to put the hurt on one
of the U.S. Postal Service's biggest customers, Amazon.com, whose
chief executive,...
It is nothing but a number, no different than 999,999,999,999 for all practical
purposes, but we humans are not practical creatures: we attach importance to all kinds
of silly things, round numbers
chief amongst them.
The Company's
chief operating decision - maker is the
chief executive officer who reviews financial information presented on a consolidated basis, accompanied by disaggregated information about revenue by geographic region for
purposes of allocating resources and evaluating financial performance.
In a statement uploaded to the Uber Newsroom, the company's
Chief Security Officer, Joe Sullivan, explained the intended
purpose of the Greyball tool.
The Apple
chief has also called for stronger data privacy regulations in light
of the scandal, which saw the data
of 50 million Facebook users improperly harvested and used for political
purposes.
According to Schiller, Lycurgus»
chief sin was to deny that «the state is never an end in itself (Der Staat selbst ist niemals Zweck); it is important only as a condition under which the
purpose of mankind can be attained, and this
purpose is none other than the development
of all man's powers, his progress and improvement.»
All
of us are interested in salvation, but all
of us have interests in the church that frequently lie outside the church's
chief purpose.
It is true, certainly, that the preservation
of the faith in its full integrity is the
chief function
of the Voice
of Peter; it is also true that it was precisely for that
purpose that those who promoted Ratzinger's candidacy in Conclave 2005 did so.
The
chief meaning
of his existence had lain in group relationships, group functions, and group
purposes.
Yet whenever there has been a clear conception
of the office one
of these functions has been regarded as central and the other functions have been ordered so as to serve, not indeed it, but, the
chief purpose that it served directly.
Second, it causes the church's attention to be directed from the Bible's
chief purpose (its message
of salvation) to secondary matters.
I suggested a like correspondence between the original Easter faith and the insight that the resurrection
of Jesus is the
chief exemplification
of God's raising into himself
of everything compatible with his loving
purpose — an insight that is itself compatible with our experience
of the risen Jesus as
of God, and in God, yet also distinct from God.
Their
chief purpose was to create a cloud
of smoke under cover
of which a bayonet, sword, ax or pike charge could be mounted.
Whatever their motivations — and their
chief motivation is to attract a paying audience, followed by the winning
of journalistic honors — editors and reporters served a higher
purpose.
More
of it comes from wealthy individuals and corporations whose
chief purpose is to have access to, and influence on, government officials.
Wang's own special emphasis is on the fact that if the good can be found functioning within one's own mind, there is no need to investigate things outside the mind for the
purpose of abiding in the highest good; this is the
chief point
of his dispute with Chu Hsi.17
He was filled with ceaseless waiting for the hour
of redemption and finally initiated and played the
chief part in the secret rites which he and certain other zaddikim... performed with the
purpose of converting the Napoleonic wars into the pre-Messianic final battle
of Gog and Magog.
It is the
purpose of this volume to present certain studies
of the gospel at the point where the oral tradition was being crystallized in writing; and for this reason we shall pay
chief attention to the Gospel
of Mark, though the other early source or cycle — Q, the «Sayings Source» — will also engage our attention now and then, But we can not deal with that source in detail at present; indeed, we shall not have the time to deal adequately with Mark, and can study only some
of its leading features and the problems to which these give rise.
When the Visitations disclosed that the
chief trouble
of the evangelical churches was the ignorance
of the common people, steps were taken to use the public services also for
purposes of instruction.
Indeed, it is usually taken in small bites along with rice and other foods, its
chief purpose being to perk up something otherwise bland, and to cleanse the palate
of fats and starch.
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Listening to Romney, you're reminded
of one
of Coolidge's mottos about the spirit and
purpose of America, «the
chief business
of the American people is business».
But the governor's absence in Indian Lake robbed the event
of one
of its intended
purposes, which is for local lawmakers to mingle, network and lobby for Adirondack issues with officials from across the state — including its
chief executive.
For the
purposes of this section, any officer or employee or agent
of the responsible department authorised in that behalf by the
chief executive
of that department may, at the request
of the Electoral Commission, supply to the Electoral Commission any immigration information held by that department.
For the
purpose of applying the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956, in accordance with subclause (2), to a person who holds office as the
chief executive or, as the case may be, is in the service
of the Electoral Commission as an officer or employee and (in any such case) is a contributor to the Government Superannuation Fund, the term controlling authority, in relation to any such person, means the
chief executive.
Advisory: An Advisory Committee may be formed on an ad hoc basis when
purposes arise and may consist
of advisors including the Tompkins County Administrator, Tompkins County
Chief Financial Officer, and the Tompkins County Commissioner
of Planning.