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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
purpose
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sense of purpose/direction (=a feeling that you know what you are trying to achieve)
▪ Becoming a mother had given her a new sense of purpose.
clarity of vision/purpose/thought etc
▪ Churchill’s clarity of vision impressed all who knew him.
commercial considerations/reasons/purposes
▪ Commercial considerations must come second to conservation of the environment.
defeat the object/purpose (of the exercise)
▪ Don’t let your arms relax as that would defeat the object of the exercise.
dual role/purpose/function
▪ The bridge has a dual role, carrying both road and rail.
express purpose
▪ The school was founded with the express purpose of teaching deaf children.
For illustrative purposes
▪ For illustrative purposes, only a simple example is given here.
for peaceful purposes
▪ A Foreign Ministry spokesman stressed that the nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes.
humanitarian grounds/reasons/purposes
▪ He was released from prison on humanitarian grounds.
ostensible reason/purpose/aim
▪ The ostensible reason for his resignation was ill health.
primary purpose/aim/objective
▪ Their primary objective is to make money.
sb’s sole purpose/aim
▪ Their sole purpose was to kill.
serve a useful purpose/function (=be useful)
▪ Sending her to prison would serve no useful purpose.
serve the purpose
▪ A large cardboard box will serve the purpose.
strength of purpose/mind (=determination to do something)
▪ In pursuing this ambition, William showed remarkable strength of purpose.
suit sb's purpose
▪ It suited her purpose to let him believe the lie.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
▪ Its presence here has a different purpose.
▪ We are accustomed to see it placed, for different purposes, in different hands.
▪ The book describes ways of going about setting up a variety of programmes with different purposes.
▪ It would give people and organizations a range of appropriate currencies to use for different purposes.
▪ Each group is used for a different purpose, to inactivate bacteria or block the action of viruses, for example.
▪ They are very different in their purpose: the women and the ventriloquist's dummy.
▪ This range varies for different purposes, but the aim is always to make it as wide as possible.
dual
▪ This was a Baptist church in an inner city area with a modern dual purpose building surrounded by high-rise local authority dwellings.
▪ This is a dual purpose crop.
▪ We ask both groups to be aware that the paths have a dual purpose and to show consideration for each other.
▪ It fulfils a dual educational purpose.
▪ This visit made apparent the dual purpose of the scheme - of accountability and professional development.
▪ The dual purposes of this chapter are to describe and explain this major division in the distribution of resources in old age.
▪ This is a difficult question to deal with partly because of the dual purpose of the entire exercise.
▪ This is a dual purpose exercise which develops the strength in your legs and the flexibility in your shoulders.
general
▪ His general purpose was to humanize prison conditions and to provide prisoners with opportunities for personal reformation.
▪ Since the budgets of all governmental agencies have the same general purpose, certain similarities exist in their forms.
▪ From a strategic perspective, management will usually need intelligence for two general purposes: environmental scanning and competitor analysis.
▪ Maxxam said it would use the proceeds for general corporate purposes, including repayment of debt.
▪ Although in theory Postscript could be viewed as a general purpose programming language, it is strongly biassed towards visual representation.
▪ Everything was housed in general purpose tents.
▪ Fig 1: Three types of crampon points - a curved lobster claw b general purpose c straight lobster claw.
▪ Government officials said the proceeds would be used for general financing purposes.
main
▪ The main purpose of this elaborate system was almost certainly profit for the king.
▪ The main purpose of Levin's article, however, is to reclaim Debord for the aesthetic discourse of avant-garde cinema.
▪ The main purpose of the pro-am has nothing to do with golf.
▪ The main purpose of these pads is to give the water a final polish and continuous use is not really obligatory.
▪ But the main purpose of our trip to Arran was to see the golden eagle.
▪ The main purpose of these beacons is: 1.
▪ The main purpose of the list is to illustrate complexity and variety of political-economic and physical circumstances of soil erosion.
▪ The objects and objectives of an enterprise Every business organisation has its objectives - ie. its main purpose for being in existence.
other
▪ A well built unit can always be used for other purposes should your venture not come up to expectation.
▪ Substantial payments were made out of the Forest revenues for these and other purposes relating to the maintenance and upkeep of the castle.
▪ From the beginning, though, children should be learning to write in other forms and for other purposes.
▪ The knowledge obtained from solutions that are put into the eye for other purposes is considerably valuable.
▪ Such a large Survey would of course serve many other governmental purposes.
▪ The machinery is so specialist that it can not be used for any other purpose.
particular
▪ Their value is determined by your particular purpose or essay.
▪ Further, the buyer must have made known to the seller the particular purpose for which he was buying the goods.
▪ Economists have usually held that trying to tie a government's hands to spend in line with revenue raised for particular purposes is impossible.
▪ Of what value is the evidence for our particular purposes?
▪ It never occurred to me that these two hard chairs were kept for a particular purpose.
▪ Since such orders are not the product of a directing intelligence they can not be said to have a particular purpose.
▪ The point here is that institutions are useful only if they have been designed to achieve a particular purpose.
▪ The particular purpose is to assess the effects of private and State employment strategies upon the town's population and culture.
political
▪ The symbolism which these involved, and which was indeed their essence, was frequently manipulated for political purposes.
▪ But as the holiday has gained popularity over the years, Munoz worries that the political purpose has been forgotten.
▪ Hariri has been generous beyond narrow political purposes.
▪ The balance was legitimate expenditure for primarily political purposes, Flynn has contended.
▪ No payments were made for political purposes.
▪ On this occasion, the smooth display of pomp was meant to serve a deeper political purpose.
▪ Yet the temptation to use the Games for political purposes remains irresistible.
▪ It was a question of how he believed he could best attain his major political purposes.
practical
▪ Polarising windows are inadequate to give selectivity for most practical purposes, and barrier membranes must be used.
▪ For all practical purposes, these securities are risk free.
▪ For all practical purposes, the Holy Spirit could be discounted.
▪ It is essential for that knowledge to be put into practical and useful purposes.
▪ When the restoration is complete, Woodchester will have a practical purpose.
▪ For all practical purposes, the Army of the Potomac was on its own.
▪ Beneath the wealth of statuary and architectural ornament, such monuments usually had a practical purpose.
▪ It involves the use of celestial recurrences for the practical purpose of regulating daily activity.
present
▪ I will re-present Eikmeyer's model here, with adaptations for the present purpose.
▪ In what follows, we shall narrow the scope of the term to something more adapted to the present purpose.
▪ For present purposes it is important for three reasons. 1.
▪ The contrast seems to me, for present purposes, to be a very useful one.
▪ But we have said enough for present purposes.
▪ For present purposes there are in my judgment two streams of authority relating to moneys wrongly extracted by way of impost.
▪ For present purposes we can conclude that Trotsky looked to proletarian democracy as a defence against bureaucratization.
▪ Conversely, a body may be styled a tribunal and yet be a court for present purposes.
primary
▪ Their primary purpose is the conservative one of helping to sustain and maintain the existing order of things.
▪ Angiletta said the primary purpose of the web site was to keep the public informed about legislation to protect children from predators.
▪ The primary purpose must, always, be to sell the product.
▪ Laboratory tests have two primary purposes, one of which is to detect marginal nutritional deficiencies.
▪ The primary purpose of the proposed research will be to acquire detailed knowledge about how the new Act will operate.
▪ The lawyer is dishonest-he claims that justice, service to mankind is his primary purpose.
▪ Their primary purpose is to speed up browsing.
▪ It is the primary purpose of this chapter to correct what I view as an imbalance in this respect.
real
▪ Now that he was working and studying with real purpose, he had a problem.
▪ They have to be tendentious and have real purpose.
▪ And when they are listening in this way to check their theories they have a real purpose in listening.
▪ What was the real purpose of the visit?
▪ He doesn't understand what it is to have real purpose, or peace.
▪ The real purpose of the tax code is to supply tax breaks for politicians to auction off to campaign contributors.
▪ His real purpose was to further the cause of Roman Catholicism.
▪ It is as though their own real purpose were to find a proper excuse to take their own lives.
sole
▪ Their sole purpose was to kill, by any means, provided the end result was the death of the chosen victim.
▪ The sole purpose of marriage, then, is to bear and raise kids?
▪ From then on, many changed banks, with the sole purpose of giving their previous firm a run for its money.
▪ The whole school seemed to have been designed with the sole purpose of freezing all the pupils to death.
▪ Her sole purpose in being here was to kill some time.
▪ That is their sole purpose - to strengthen desirable behaviour.
▪ Various parties pursued conflicting objectives, often making tenuous alliances with each other for the sole purpose of expediency.
▪ What a doctor can not do is administer a drug for which the sole purpose is to end life.
specific
▪ Belbin's description of team roles has proved to be very useful, especially in creating teams for specific purposes.
▪ The statement of purpose should open with one statement followed by several shorter very specific statements of purpose.
▪ Research is an active and formally organised search for specific information for a specific purpose.
▪ The proposal serves as a guide to the hypothesis testing process which embodies the specific purpose of the study effort.
▪ It is always difficult estimating the room you will need unless you are having the greenhouse built for a specific purpose.
▪ It is brought into existence precisely to enable a specific purpose to be realised.
▪ There is now only the one pool, which he designed with the specific purpose of encouraging Koi-keepers with limited space.
▪ The business group will seek legislation allowing local governments to tax for specific purposes only.
useful
▪ Right: Batsford products are based on real bits of wood; or serve a useful fishkeeping purpose.
▪ Brand names serve a useful purpose, not just for the producer but for the consumer as well.
▪ It is perhaps in the field of attribution that this catalogue serves the most useful purpose.
▪ Therefore, s.64 would no longer serve a useful purpose.
▪ However, critics such as Michael Steiner, a Chula Vista parent, question whether the test serves any useful purpose.
▪ But adverse planetary influences invariably serve a useful purpose - and never more so than right now.
■ NOUN
tax
▪ Moreover, incorporation itself would involve a cessation for income tax purposes.
▪ The property they own has an assessed valuation for tax purposes of $ 1. 6 billion.
▪ Cohabiting couples are not eligible for Married Couple's Allowance, and for tax purposes are regarded as two single people.
▪ This tax on bank deposits is not deductible for tax purposes.
▪ It is not essential for an organisation to be registered with the Charity Commission to qualify as a charity for tax purposes.
▪ Also record the pay figure for tax purposes on the P11 and P14.
▪ Use the value of the land declared by the landlord for tax purposes as the basis of compensation for expropriated land.
▪ The sale will also be treated as a disposal for capital gains tax purposes.
■ VERB
achieve
▪ In general, however, the scheme has been successful and has achieved the purposes for which it was instituted.
▪ When I die, I can, if I am lucky, die knowing that I have achieved my purposes.
▪ A group is a collection of individual people who come together to achieve some purpose.
▪ They concentrate ori mobilizing and deploying capital, labor, and technology to achieve desired purposes.
▪ The plotter had achieved his purpose.
▪ Program evaluation is concerned specifically with determining the worth or values of efforts expended to achieve a given purpose or objective.
▪ A prudential practice is instrumental in nature, being designed to achieve a specific substantive purpose.
▪ But groups can employ a variety of strategies to achieve this purpose.
build
▪ It is always difficult estimating the room you will need unless you are having the greenhouse built for a specific purpose.
▪ I wanted to build a modest building for such a purpose, but there was an uproar.
▪ But first we had to heat up the tyre in the oven we'd built on purpose to do this.
▪ Timber used on building sites for construction purposes such as shuttering and formers is usually discarded - often just burnt.
▪ But now it looks to me like the River Rouge plant, built for a purpose long obsolete.
defeat
▪ Detailed guidelines defeat the very purpose of guidelines. which is to allow considerable local flexibility and adjustment.
▪ This, of course, defeats the purpose for which the medication is being given.
▪ Inconsistent State practice would only defeat the entire purpose of the convention for a stable regime.
▪ They are defeating the purpose of the Peace Corps and they are unhappy.
▪ Running around in circles and seeing the same old thing defeats half the purpose.
▪ This obviously defeated the purpose of bail, which is to assure that the defendant will appear in court.
▪ But Max's kindness and good manners defeated my purpose totally.
▪ If they become a chore, they defeat the purpose of helping the child to want to interact with you.
serve
▪ In some ways it serves the same purpose as having a service to recognize the end of mourning.
▪ The outer-space design serves a purpose, too.
▪ Inhibitions are rare except for a bankruptcy inhibition, which serves the same purpose as a land charge in unregistered conveyancing.
▪ It is essential that both wind strength and direction serve your purpose.
▪ It was the sort of exhibition she usually despised, but she knew that nothing less would serve her purpose.
▪ The ones that serve my purpose.
suit
▪ It must suit the purpose for which it is used.
▪ The czars introduced constitutional guarantees, only to ignore them whenever it suited their purpose.
▪ Hedges are an example of the readiness of ordinary people to bend the language to suit their purposes.
▪ Woman, having no identity of her own as woman, being defined as lack, is eminently suited for this purpose.
▪ Religious bigots have often employed the cunning device of converting other people's heroes into villains, to suit their own purposes.
▪ They would turn him when it suited their purpose.
▪ It would not suit my purpose to get him drunk.
▪ It is up to the practitioner to decide which stance is best suited to a particular purpose.
use
▪ In the main, however, the selection procedure is rigorous enough so that basic training does not have to be used for assessment purposes.
▪ Still other badges are used for specific purposes.
▪ Are the premises being used for business purposes?
▪ Or, more handy still, you can use it for denial purposes.
▪ Money when used for this purpose is a means of temporarily storing wealth.
▪ Government officials said the proceeds would be used for general financing purposes.
▪ In general, all visual aids were used for a purpose.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
for medicinal purposes
▪ Marijuana was legalized for medicinal purposes.
▪ I would naturally consider sympathetically any invitation to take part in clinical trials requiring ingestion of whisky for medicinal purposes.
▪ Last November, voters in California and Arizona passed initiatives which allow the use of pot for medicinal purposes.
▪ That's what you need - whisky, for medicinal purposes.
▪ The Physic Garden is planted with examples of herbs used in Medieval times for medicinal purposes.
▪ These would have been used for both flavouring and for medicinal purposes.
for/to all practical purposes
▪ But, for all practical purposes you can say that a wind angle of 60° produces maximum drift.
▪ Computerized free language indexing is, for all practical purposes, the same as natural language indexing.
▪ Indeed for all practical purposes he owned us.
▪ Most of the 54 stories reproduced here, even the previously published ones, were, for all practical purposes, lost.
▪ The edit display screen can only be used, for all practical purposes, for cutting and pasting.
▪ Yet for all practical purposes, Windows was Macintosh.
singleness of purpose
▪ Fridays Pray for the Mission Board, that there might be unity and a singleness of purpose.
▪ Here spoke the man of destiny whose singleness of purpose overrode all other considerations.
▪ Well-structured courses prevent the sense of singleness of purpose from being dissipated.
to all intents and purposes
ulterior motive/purpose etc
▪ A member is entitled to a judgment that is free from any extraneous or ulterior motive.
▪ Actually, he invited me out tonight, probably with an ulterior motive.
▪ An ulterior motive for performing text recognition is to convert existing printed material into a computer format that permits further processing.
▪ However, for Guangming Ribao, all her appeals to students to end the demonstrations had an ulterior motive.
▪ It was difficult to accept that Jane had no ulterior motives.
▪ No ulterior motive lurks behind it, but it keeps you at a distance.
▪ The legislation pertaining to protection of wetlands and endangered species is clearly being abused by extremists pursuing ulterior motives.
▪ They look around for other explanations and ulterior motives.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ My purpose in writing this book was to draw attention to the problem of global warming.
▪ Read up on starting a small business. Loans can be obtained for this purpose.
▪ The purpose of the experiment is to find better ways of treating battlefield wounds.
▪ The games have an educational purpose.
▪ The group's purpose is to help disabled teenagers have fun and meet new friends.
▪ The main purpose of the meeting is to discuss who will be in the team.
▪ There is no penalty if the quarterback deliberately throws the ball out of bounds for the purpose of stopping play.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Defining that role is the main purpose of this chapter.
▪ He always handled such events with the same purpose.
▪ Its body is dedicated to this one purpose.
▪ The arbitrariness of this classification is well illustrated when an individual chooses, for tax purposes, to be regarded as self-employed.
▪ The central purpose is to hammer out long-term strategies for the nation as a whole.
▪ The ritual done, we settle at last into fulfilling the purpose of this expedition.
▪ This year, the picnic has a solemn purpose.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Purpose

Purpose \Pur"pose\, n. [OF. purpos, pourpos, propos, L. propositum. See Propound.]

  1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan.

    He will his firste purpos modify.
    --Chaucer.

    As my eternal purpose hath decreed. -- Milton.

    The flighty purpose never is o'ertook Unless the deed go with it.
    --Shak.

  2. Proposal to another; discourse. [Obs.]
    --Spenser.

  3. Instance; example. [Obs.]
    --L'Estrange.

    In purpose, Of purpose, On purpose, with previous design; with the mind directed to that object; intentionally. On purpose is the form now generally used.

    Syn: design; end; intention; aim. See Design.

Purpose

Purpose \Pur"pose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Purposed; p. pr. & vb. n. Purposing.] [OF. purposer, proposer. See Propose.]

  1. To set forth; to bring forward. [Obs.]

  2. To propose, as an aim, to one's self; to determine upon, as some end or object to be accomplished; to intend; to design; to resolve; -- often followed by an infinitive or dependent clause.
    --Chaucer.

    Did nothing purpose against the state. -- Shak.

    I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living.
    --Macaulay.

Purpose

Purpose \Pur"pose\, v. i. To have a purpose or intention; to discourse. [Obs.]
--Spenser.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
purpose

c.1300, "intention, aim, goal," from Anglo-French purpos, Old French porpos "aim, intention" (12c.), from porposer "to put forth," from por- "forth" (from Latin pro- "forth;" see pur-) + Old French poser "to put, place" (see pose (v.1)). On purpose "by design" is attested from 1580s; earlier of purpose (early 15c.).

purpose

late 14c., from Anglo-French purposer "to design," Old French porposer "to intend, propose," variant of proposer (see propose).

Wiktionary
purpose

Etymology 1 n. An object to be reached; a target; an aim; a goal. Etymology 2

vb. 1 (context transitive English) Have set as one's purpose; resolve to accomplish; intend; plan. 2 (context transitive English) (''passive'') designed for some purpose. 3 (context obsolete intransitive English) To have a purpose or intention; to discourse.

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WordNet
purpose

  1. n. an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions; "his intent was to provide a new translation"; "good intentions are not enough"; "it was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs"; "he made no secret of his designs" [syn: intent, intention, aim, design]

  2. what something is used for; "the function of an auger is to bore holes"; "ballet is beautiful but what use is it?" [syn: function, role, use]

  3. the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; "his determination showed in his every movement"; "he is a man of purpose" [syn: determination]

  4. v. propose or intend; "I aim to arrive at noon" [syn: aim, purport, propose]

  5. reach a decision; "he resolved never to drink again" [syn: resolve]

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Wikipedia
Purpose (Algebra album)

Purpose is the debut album by contemporary R&B singer, Algebra. It stayed on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart for 14 weeks, peaking at No. 56.

Purpose (disambiguation)

Purpose may refer to:

  • Goal
  • Intention
  • Subject of discourse
  • Teleology
  • Purpose as distinct doctrine for non-mechanistic living organisms, see Vitalism
  • Purpose clauses in linguistics, see Final clause
  • Purpose in cybernetics, see Cybernetic
  • Purpose in Immanuel Kant's biology philosophy, see Critique of Judgement
  • Purpose in Life (PIL), see Meaning of life
  • Purpose in Life (PIL) test, see Noetic Goals Test
  • Purpose in living organism's structures and functions, see Teleonomy
  • Purpose in the Aristotelian four causes, see Final cause
Purpose (Justin Bieber album)

Purpose is the fourth studio album by Canadian singer and songwriter Justin Bieber. It was released on November 13, 2015, by Def Jam Recordings and School Boy Records. It serves as the follow-up to Bieber's third studio album Believe (2012), and it was developed after the release of his collection Journals (2013), which saw him in a more R&B direction. Working on the album over a period of two years, Bieber has struggled to find a musical direction for recording and scrapping each of these tracks many times. With the help of his personal friend and frequent collaborator Jason Boyd, Bieber started writing and recording with the idea of making an inspirational album that could encourage people through uplifting these messages during a period of all his media scrutiny and his involvement in various misdemeanours; as well as his tumultuous relationships with his former girlfriend Selena Gomez.

While working with producer Skrillex, who has also been working along with his then-partner Diplo into their project Jack Ü, releasing their top 10 single " Where Are Ü Now" (2015), featuring Bieber's vocals, Bieber found the record's sonic direction and worked with Skrillex on a handful of the album's songs. Purpose was described as a mix of dance-pop, EDM music and R&B, as well as including influences of tropical house in some tracks and live instruments such as acoustic guitars in some others, while lyrically addressing subjects such as apologies and faith. The album received generally favorable reviews from most critics, who praised the consistent sound, noted his artistic growth and deemed it to be his best album to date. Other critics, however, criticized its lyrical content, noted that the album focused excessively on his requests for apologies, and found him tiring.

The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, selling 522,000 copies in its first week of release, giving Bieber the largest first-week sales of his career and his sixth number-one album in the United States. Elsewhere, it reached the top of the charts in other eleven countries. Four singles have been released from the album so far: " What Do You Mean?", " Sorry", " Love Yourself" and " Company". The first three singles achieved international success, reaching number one on both the US Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart, where the singer broke chart records, and in other countries. To promote the album, Bieber gave several televised interviews and performances, as well as releasing "dance videos" for all of the album's tracks in a project called "Purpose: The Movement". He will also embark on his Purpose World Tour in 2016. According to the IFPI, "Purpose" was the fourth best-selling album of 2015 with worldwide sales of 3.1 million copies. As of June 2016, it had sold 4.5 million copies globally.

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Usage examples of "purpose".

May Sir George Grey proposed and carried a resolution which virtually rescinded that of Sir Eardley Wilmot, by declaring that, in the opinion of the house, it was not advisable to adopt any proceeding for the purpose of giving effect to the resolution of the 26th of that month.

I know you think it amusing to be the cause of the transfer of funds to the Affront, but might I point out to you that where it is not to all intents and purposes irrelevant, money is power, money is influence, money is effect.

Even if destitute of any formal or official enunciation of those important truths, which even in a cultivated age it was often found inexpedient to assert except under a veil of allegory, and which moreover lose their dignity and value in proportion as they are learned mechanically as dogmas, the shows of the Mysteries certainly contained suggestions if not lessons, which in the opinion not of one competent witness only, but of many, were adapted to elevate the character of the spectators, enabling them to augur something of the purposes of existence, as well as of the means of improving it, to live better and to die happier.

Also, it would be open to show, by contemporaneous history, that this mode of alluding to slaves and slavery, instead of speaking of them, was employed on purpose to exclude from the Constitution the idea that there could be property in man.

He looked at the thin, frail woman sitting on the bench, her child held firmly in her protective embrace, and guessed that North was an ambivalent destination for her, an ideal to cling to because she had nothing else, and wished he could help and give her some other purpose.

She reached into her muff and withdrew the banknote that Ambrose had provided for just this purpose.

Watson marched down the river, Marion keeping just sufficiently ahead of him to be able to post an ambuscade for him at the first point that seemed suitable for such a purpose.

Captain Morgan was persuaded that in the wood the Spaniards had placed an ambuscade, as lying so conveniently for that purpose.

The pride of Corinth, again rising from her ruins with the honors of a Roman colony, exacted a tribute from the adjacent republics, for the purpose of defraying the games of the Isthmus, which were celebrated in the amphitheatre with the hunting of bears and panthers.

An anarchist is not necessarily a revolutionary, although it is more common than not that a person who has attempted to rid himself of exterior controls, for the purpose of developing his own philosophy, will find himself oppressed.

For some unknown purpose mechs had furrowed and shaped the rough hillsides into tight, angular sheets and oblique ramps.

She swore mentally at them, sure they were doing it on purpose to annoy her.

The sexual acts in which Richard Hudson engaged each of these three women involved a high degree of probability that they would result in their deaths, and he committed those acts for a base, antisocial purpose and with wanton disregard for the lives of Victoria Mitten, Jane Sorensen, and Marian Browning.

Yoshida was apotheosized soon afterward as one of the heroes of modern Japan, a perfect symbol of purity of purpose and tragic sacrifice.

States and the National Government are regarded as mutually complementary parts of a single governmental mechanism all of whose powers are intended to realize the current purposes of government according to their applicability to the problem in hand.