purpose Examples

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Examples of purpose in a Sentence

Examples of purpose
1. Intralingual translation involves adapting a text to a new purpose in the same language.
2. No. He proposes to employ majoritarian bullying to overturn the legal and constitutional balance of power for the vapid purpose of upholding “popular values,” whatever and whose ever those are.
3. Faced with a mindboggling selection of special-purpose shampoos, he gave up and simply purchased something inexpensive with a pleasant fragrance.
4. On the other hand, if the purpose of the study is to determine the fine temporal relationships between nearby substructures (such as the olfactory glomeruli in our studies), then these multiunits must be viewed with suspicion.
5. “Most transgressions deal with excessive compensation or grants used for a noncharitable purpose.”
6. Still another icebreaker is shivering, the automatic, noncoordinated activation of muscle motions for the sole purpose of generating heat.
7. “The whole purpose of Cites is to allow trade only if there is a nondetrimental finding,” Ms. Roberson added, “and this screams to me it’s detrimental to the fish.”
8. He’s using people in a nonloving fashion to serve the purpose of his argument.
9. Tall and slender with rounded heads, the postlike figures seemed more like exotic conversation pieces than relics with a religious purpose, the Allens’ daughter, the writer Brooke Allen, recalls.
Examples of purposes
1. The site required extensive environmental remediation before it could be used for other purposes.
2. Flattening chicken breast halves serves two purposes: It provides more surface area to rub in the Greek-influenced seasoning, and it ensures that the chicken cooks quickly.
3. Their principles will cease to be dear to them, whenever they shall cease to subserve the purposes of good order.
4. The 11 girls [ … ] are all trained dancers in real life who, for the purposes of "Billy Elliot," must untrain themselves for each performance and dance with two very left feet.
5. For all intents and purposes the case is closed.
6. This treaty, for all intents and purposes, is no longer viable.
7. Overall, the results appear to be of major importance for everyday clinical purposes, since according to Göz et al., a poor aesthetic appearance is the most important reason why patients decide to undergo surgery for dysgnathia.
8. Feuars and tenants, likewise, had right to cut and carry off sod, called feal and divot, from the moors and commons, for building and roofing their cottages and hovels, and other purposes;
9. In other bacterial species glycosylated bacterial proteins serve multiple purposes including enhanced attachment in Chlamydia trachomatis [65 ], immunomodulation through glycomimicry in group A and group B streptococci, Neisseria meningitidis, and E.