Recently, efforts devoted to this goal have increased.
The Baʿth Party, devoted to this goal, was founded in Damascus during World War II.
In 1997, they formed Connecticut Outdoor Historic Drama, a nonprofit group devoted to this goal.
Happily for those of us who don't live in Key West and therefore aren't laid-back, the island seems devoted to the goal of making all comers welcome, with accommodations to suit different size credit ratings.
One of Ronald Reagan's first acts in office was to remove the solar panels Carter put on the White House roof, and since then national energy policy has been devoted to one goal above all others: increasing the production of fossil fuel energy, chiefly through tax breaks and subsidies.
Many research and development effort have been devoted to this goal in recent years.
Consequently, a great deal of theoretical reflection and empirical research have been devoted to the goal of understanding the factors that enhance and constrain their functionality.
Modern social science also traces its roots to the thought of this period, widely known as the Enlightenment, especially to the search for a true 'science of man,' to be grounded in empirical methods and observation and devoted to the goal of human progress.
A significant amount of the League's time and energy was devoted to this goal, even though many member governments were uncertain that such extensive disarmament could be achieved or was even desirable.
Cognitive control refers to a set of mental capacities devoted to optimize goal-directed behavior in situations of multiple competing response alternatives (Botvinick, Braver, Barch, Carter, & Cohen, 2001; Ridderinkhof, Forstmann, Wylie, Burle, & van den Wildenberg, 2010; Ridderinkhof, Ullsperger, Crone, & Nieuwenhuis, 2004).
More generally, the fraction of the metabolic network devoted to constant goals (such as central metabolism) seems to increases as the environment becomes more constant (Fig S8c in additional file 2).
