political purpose
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpoliticalandpurpose
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political
adjective
uk/pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/us/pəˈlɪt̬.ə.kəl/
relating ...
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purpose
noun
uk/ˈpɜː.pəs/us/ˈpɝː.pəs/
why you do something or why ...
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(Definition ofpoliticalandpurposefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This might be acceptable if bad history could be made to serve any conceivably good publicpoliticalpurpose.
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The compensation nevertheless achieved its primarypoliticalpurpose.
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It has outlived its historical time and outlasted itspoliticalpurpose.
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Politicalpurposehas nothing to do with their actions.
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The centralpoliticalpurposeof conventional warfare is to wreak as much devastation as possible to force opponents to submit.
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This played down herpoliticalpurposeand obviated the need for any kind of commitment on either side.
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Information gained in this way was valuable coin in the currency of social exchange, but it could also have directpoliticalpurpose.
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Such readings may serve a usefulpoliticalpurpose, but proceed from essentialist assumptions and are therefore susceptible to accusations of anachronism.
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This unawareness enabled psychiatric evaluators to see their work with dissidents as the mere exercise of medical judgment, withoutpoliticalpurpose.
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At another level, it served apoliticalpurpose.
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By the time of initial installation, the system had served itspoliticalpurpose.
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Historians who theorise the relationship between knowledge and empire should therefore keep in view how contemporaries themselves articulated the difference between colonial and colonised knowledge forpoliticalpurpose.
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Nopoliticalpurposeor rationale was mentioned.
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She thus succeeds in her goal of ' reassessing the king's ritual presentation of sacred oratory and the overlap of the religious inspiration andpoliticalpurpose' (p. 6).
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There was nopoliticalpurposeor rationale.
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Thepoliticalpurposemust never distort the truth out of contempt for the principles of law.
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When one does these things purely for apoliticalpurpose, one does not necessarily reap the reward in respect of votes.
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It was founded for apoliticalpurpose, not a party purpose, not even a federal purpose, as some would argue.
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