Even the nectar-eating bats with their excellent spatial memory need hundreds to thousands of trials to attain object-shape discrimination when the objects change location [30], while mice can learn conceptually related tasks in 50 100 trials [31].
He distinguishes the illumination of this interior teacher from the true and final object of the intellect.[14] Divine light is only a means by which the intellect can attain its object.[15] This is consistent with his emphasis upon the analogy of divine light and physical light, which pervades so much of his thinking.
"It was a Christian idea, sacrificing / oneself to attain the object of one's desire".
It is of course a commonplace to note that sex is a staple of automobile advertising, but in most ads the idea is that a car with the right curves will attract the girl with the right curves; the piece of machinery is instrumental to the effort to attain the object of desire.
Every right created by, arising under, or dependent upon the constitution, may be protected and enforced by such means and in such manner as congress, in the exercise of the correlative duty of protection, or of the legislative powers conferred upon it by the constitution, may in its discretion deem most eligible and best adapted to attain the object.
As the human race increased, the necessity for uniting themselves for defence made itself felt; the better to attain this object, they chose the strongest and most courageous from amongst themselves and placed him at their head, promising to obey him.
When hope has attained its object, it ceases to be hope and becomes possession.
I got a spade from the toolhouse and began to delve with all my might it scraped the coffin; I fell to work with my hands; the wood commenced cracking about the screws, I was on the point of attaining my object, when it seemed that I heard a sigh from some one above, close to the edge of the grave, and bending down….
The basis of the imitations, he tells us, is a fine, pure and white glass composition, called Stress, after its inventor, STRASS, of Strasburgh, who attained the object of sundry experiments by achieving perfect imitations of the "real" gems in the three particulars of hardness, specific gravity and refraction of light.
For one to succeed, one must visualize attaining the object of success.
It is in attaining this object (strictly, "state") that the individual gains the greatest self-satisfaction.
