sole purpose
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsoleandpurpose
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sole
adjective[before noun]
uk/səʊl/us/soʊl/
being one ...
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purpose
noun
uk/ˈpɜː.pəs/us/ˈpɝː.pəs/
why you do something or why ...
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(Definition ofsoleandpurposefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsole purpose
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Much of the work that has been done in this area, heretofore, has been done by missionaries for thesolepurposeof producing religious materials.
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Both the flows of practical interest mentioned above invariably involve scalar mixing (indeed the reaction chamber'ssolepurposeis to mix scalars).
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Itssolepurposein their eyes was to mark their individual and collective allegiance to the powers that be, which for them goes without saying.
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Significantly, in such a society, the sovereign's right of death existed for thesolepurposeof protecting and, therefore, sustaining his own life.
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So that, upon death, all bodies became public property for thesolepurposeof harvesting organs?
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It is the point andsolepurposeof square-filling that words on such thickened infinite graphs will correspond to points in the target space.
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Why should we suppose that thesolepurposeof political theory is 'to diagnose practical predicaments and to show us how best to confront them'?
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Itssolepurposeappears to be that of bolstering presidential resources.
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These auxiliary relations have as theirsolepurposethe enforcement of the condition that datatypes and constructors are fully applied when being used.
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The students proposed a specially elected ' national constituent assembly ' whosesolepurposewould be to reform the constitution.
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Thesolepurposeof these examples is to illustrate how the type system works.
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Holding companies are corporations created for thesolepurposeof owning other corporations.
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They were assured of thesolepurposeof collecting the recordings from them and about the confidential treatment of the tapes.
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The other 5 catheterizations were performed with thesolepurposeof embolization of already known abnormal vessels.
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However, we might question whether this was itssolepurpose.
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