What is "for the sake of"

Usage examples of "for the sake of".

And here I strictly forbid all male critics to intermeddle with a circumstance which I have recounted only for the sake of the ladies, and upon which they only are at liberty to comment.

Now, though he was within easy hailing distance of the guard on the quarter-deck, he felt a natural disinclination to disturb those gentlemen merely for the sake of a sick convict, and knowing that, in a few minutes, the third relief would come on duty, he decided to wait until then.

But if Christ is amongst us, then it is necessary that we sometimes yield up our own opinion for the sake of peace.

Here was one who had attained that and then renounced it of his own will, to follow wisdom purely for the sake of kzinkind.

Are not all laborious things to be endured for the sake of eternal life?

Wherefore, if I but knew well how to reject all human consolations, whether for the sake of gaining devotion, or because of the necessity by which I was compelled to seek Thee, seeing there is no man who can comfort me.

If a holy exercise be sometimes omitted for the sake of some act of piety, or of some brotherly kindness, it can easily be taken up afterwards.

Is the moral purpose of those who are good, self-immolation for the sake of those who are evil?

So he came to Peredur and besought him, for the sake of the lady of his love, to come and visit the Empress.

The truth remains that you have dared the destruction of all the Earth for the sake of your son.

I do not like to think that this great king, this great man, is my enemy and that for the sake of Avalon I must bring him down to nothing, to death or dishonor.

If a man sometimes abstaineth for the sake of humility or some sound cause, he is to be commended for his reverence.