Its central assumption -- that the political process is broken and every person in Washington, D.C., from the lowliest staffers right up to the top players, is simply out for him or herself -- appears to negate the show's own purpose for existing.
It sells itself as qualitative judgment and always arrives wreathed in a lot of specious guff about how "the music on the album is the only thing that matters", but if the Mercury prize has any real purpose for existing, it should probably be to alert a wider audience to a great album they haven't heard, but might conceivably like.
Here are the 10 questions we should have been asking the same questions that any business owner should continue to ask, year in and year out: What is our purpose for existing?
Before robust field and experimental data exists, it is still possible to develop statistical projections for the purpose based on existing knowledge of correlations between climate parameters and human tularaemia cases.
Similar to these databases, the SKB combines many independent data sources for the purpose of using existing knowledge to support efficient analysis of the experimental data.
Nor did they provide good information (column 2), since other questions were deemed more effective for the purpose of assessing existing knowledge of poison emergencies.
A questionnaire was designed with the purpose of auditing existing Trust induction procedures for first year Foundation doctors (F1s).
For the purposes of evaluating existing mobility instruments in this study both distribution and criterion based methods were planned.
The Monte Carlo Application ToolKit (MCATK) is a component-based software library designed to build specialized applications and to provide new functionality for existing general purpose Monte Carlo radiation transport codes.
For this purpose, the existing 2NN-MEAM parameters for Ni and Cu were modified to make them suitable for the MD simulations of the problems related to the two-phase solid liquid coexistence of these elements.
