Collocations withpurpose
These are words often used in combination withpurpose.
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administrative purpose
The answers given in this test, as in the census itself, will be entirely confidential and will not be used for any other administrative purpose.
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advertising purposes
The use of packaging for advertising purposes should be discouraged since this may encourage superfluous use of materials.
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aesthetic purpose
Where judges thought an aesthetic purpose was part of a well-reasoned regulatory classification, they could usually find a way to let it slip through.
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agricultural purpose
Equally, without a ditch or a drain the land would not be suitable for any agricultural purpose at all if the drain did not work.
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analytical purposes
The others deemed that for analytical purposes, one should distinguish between various forms of identity.
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archival purposes
He stated that it was for archival purposes only.
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artistic purpose
These interfaces between human and computer often have to be specially developed for a specific artistic purpose or to achieve a particular result.
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at cross purposes
I will show that explicitly recognizing these different levels, and not confusing them, minimizes the risk of talking at cross purposes.
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avowed purpose
The avowed purpose of the journal was to establish a dialogue between dispersed authors and readers through the accounts published in its pages.
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benevolent purposes
The half given to benevolent purposes would be subject to the ordinary rules of law applicable to non-charitable gifts.
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breeding purposes
It is known to inhabit inshore areas of turbid waters and estuaries, though not specifically for breeding purposes.
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ceremonial purpose
Therefore, they must have traveled recently before their death or were brought from foreign lands, possibly for this ceremonial purpose.
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charitable purpose
At the end of the 1960s, 'charitable purpose' was an issue of fundamental political concern.
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civilian purpose
We are now considering whether it has a civilian purpose.
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commercial purpose
Owing to constant interaction between themselves, villagers are aware of any rule violation and its reason (whether for commercial purpose or subsistence purpose).
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common purpose
A meeting involves different people coming together at a particular time or place with a common purpose in mind' '.
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communicative purpose
But there are some aspects of language whose existence contradicts the communicative purpose of language.
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conservation purpose
We have to be careful that the changes in the rules do not undermine the essential conservation purpose of the measure.
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constructive purpose
On the contrary, men's sufferings would always be seen either to be justly deserved punishments or else to serve a constructive purpose of moral training.
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cosmetic purpose
I am bound to question whether the masive sum of £6 million is realistic, or whether it has not been injected for some wider cosmetic purpose.
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declared purpose
But his declared purpose is to write the history of individual responses to these polarities, not that of the polarities themselves.
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decorative purpose
For example, many substances which have a decorative purpose also have other purposes.
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defensive purpose
We must show not only that we are united in our defensive purpose.
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definite purpose
Some, he said, seemed to have a definite purpose, while others fumbled their way around as if driven by the weather.
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diagnostic purpose
Therefore, although she recognises that it does not have a diagnostic purpose, it possibly does not even have a screening purpose, though it might help on some occasions.
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didactic purpose
But such a tactic would presume a more didactic purpose than is apparently intended here.
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divine purpose
All honest work, however common, is filled with divine purpose.
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educational purpose
Though its educational purpose was clear, it was not immediately obvious what relevance this section of the story had to the issue of therapeutic cloning.
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entertainment purpose
For entertainment purpose there is a movie theatre named as vijetha.
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explicit purpose
Its explicit purpose was to halt the entry of ' undesirable ' people into those countries.
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express purpose
On the rivers, fishing rights certainly became more valuable and houses were built for the express purpose of selling or letting to fly-fishermen.
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expressive purpose
She exploits the redundancy for expressive purpose: the repetitive treading of the same harmonic paths captures an appropriately worldweary tone.
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for comparative purposes
These ratings were collapsed to produce three categories-agree, unsure, disagree-for comparative purposes.
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for descriptive purposes
Pictorial representation of facts for descriptive purposes is instructive and convenient.
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for illustrative purposes
Scenario 2 is for illustrative purposes only and is one of the several management options that the agency could exercise.
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for informational purpose
Products mentioned in this paper are for informational purpose only.
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for instructional purposes
The other objective of explaining the model is to offer a novice user some knowledge about the domain for instructional purposes.
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functional purpose
First, it conflates identity with the construction of an issue area, which leads to an incorrect narrowing of identity to an organization's functional purpose.
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fundamental purpose
This is the fundamental purpose which lies behind this change.
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governmental purposes
We are spending £16,000,000 a day, of which £15,000,000 is for war purposes and the other £1,000,000 for ordinary governmental purposes.
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humanitarian purpose
This programme has been set up purely for the humanitarian purpose of reducing the danger to refugees when they return to their homes.
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ideological purpose
To turn this criticism into a disagreement between the institutions serves only one purpose, a political and ideological purpose.
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immoral purpose
Is the mere fact of loitering for an "immoral purpose", however we define it, to be sufficient to attract the weight of the criminal law?
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improper purpose
It ought not to be possible for anybody to make a private limited company for any improper purpose.
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intended purpose
The intended purpose is to capture in an implementation-language independent way, the key concepts that are required to represent processes.
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irrigation purpose
Ground water is salty and can not be used for irrigation purpose.
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lawful purpose
Allowing a corporation to pursue any lawful purpose, however, was not a particularly new concept.
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legislative purpose
A respect-rights analysis would explain why we care so much about legislative purpose, because purpose may have no relation to the quantity or quality of speech restricted.
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legitimate purpose
The secret debate is being diverted from its legitimate purpose in order to serve political ends.
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main purpose
Our main purpose was to identify neurons that had pre-motor activity.
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marketing purposes
Its principles are too promising to restrict its use to such marketing purposes.
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medicinal purpose
All the applicant's complaints of toxicity, medicinal purpose and harm were rejected.
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multiple purpose
In a typical district 20 out of 179 were found to have multiple purpose.
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nefarious purpose
That is our intention, and we have no nefarious purpose in putting this clause forward.
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noble purpose
We shall table amendments to try to achieve that noble purpose.
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original purpose
This is true for the military as an institution because it politicises a previously apolitical organisation to the detriment of its original purpose, war preparedness.
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ornamental purposes
They often have a decorative or ornamental purpose, commonly used among marching bands and the military, worn on the hat or helmet of the wearer.
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ostensible purpose
While the definition used is broad, such breadth is essential to capture the ostensible purpose of environmental concern and environmental action: reduced environmental damage.
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overriding purpose
In contrast, a lingua franca has a single, overriding purpose: to achieve unambiguous communication between people with mutually unintelligible tongues.
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peaceful purpose
If from the circumstances the peaceful purpose is clear, the capture is not justified.
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pedagogical purpose
In fact, this paper has a pedagogical purpose.
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political purpose
This might be acceptable if bad history could be made to serve any conceivably good public political purpose.
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practical purpose
But its strength as a complex network of embedded continua makes it problematic for the practical purpose of conceptualizing specific cases of interaction among variables.
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primary purpose
Its primary purpose is as a reasoning tool for the implementation of lazy languages.
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principal purpose
Slightly shorter, they might have been less of a distraction from the book's principal purpose.
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promotional purposes
These are rather used as tools for better exposure of the artist's music, and for university tenure and promotional purposes.
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purpose of article
In no case was their intent specifically drawn to the real intention and purpose of article 10.
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purpose of clause
He said that a breach of that timetable would constitute a breach of a commitment for the purpose of clause 1.
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recreational purpose
Those articles are intended to be articles with a recreational purpose.
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religious purpose
Needless to say, they would proclaim even more resolutely the inconceivability of a world possessing features positively frustrating anything that could serve a religious purpose.
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reproductive purposes
Let it be remembered that this is not expenditure for reproductive purposes.
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ritual purpose
These scenes may not show actual combat, but could have a ritual purpose as well.
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secondary purpose
A secondary purpose of this paper was to review evidence for bilinguals' use of gestures across languages.
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secular purpose
If after that they take the responsibility of handing the money over for some secular purpose, that is their responsibility, not ours.
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sense of purpose
The health authority's representatives again sought to establish a sense of purpose and to embody this in a method of working.
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seriousness of purpose
Involving the community in birth control does not necessarily have to be the sober, dedicated, zealous enterprise that admits only of seriousness of purpose.
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shared purpose
Each of these bases of value - shared purpose, capacity to produce benefit related to purpose, fit within the institutional context, and conduct - is in turn closely linked to the others.
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singleness of purpose
I felt myself in the presence of a great man, conscious of his mission, determined with a singleness of purpose to carry it through.
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sinister purpose
We have given frequent assurances that there is no secret agenda or sinister purpose behind the clause.
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sole purpose
Much of the work that has been done in this area, heretofore, has been done by missionaries for the sole purpose of producing religious materials.
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specific purpose
The specific purpose of the study was explained at the end of the final videotaping session.
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specified purpose
A technology's specified purpose provides fundamental orientation to assessment and policy decisions.
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sporting purposes
In addition, the school's grounds include tennis courts, three ovals for cricket and various codes of football and basketball courts for sporting purposes.
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stated purpose
It did open with a brief and vague discussion of the telescope, but its stated purpose was to report discoveries.
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strategic purpose
Whilst we therefore need to recover their theoretical significance, we also need to capture their strategic purpose.
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symbolic purpose
The possibility remains, however, that the pamphlet was not used in performance but served a purely symbolic purpose.
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therapeutic purpose
In fact, they would be appalled at any suggestion of the cathartic or therapeutic purpose of rituals.
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ulterior purpose
Debate as to the purpose of this camp has been ongoing, since several factors indicate that it may have had an ulterior purpose.
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ultimate purpose
The ultimate purpose of archaeology is to understand human societies and their changes.
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underlying purpose
It avoids that straight course which would involve the least amount of effort and opportunity for the observer to doubt its underlying purpose and order.
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unity of purpose
This mythic community is assumed to have a unity of purpose and a common set of beliefs.
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unlawful purpose
Existing legislation, together with the common law, is already adequate to prevent anyone wearing articles of police uniform for an unlawful purpose.
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useful purpose
To serve a useful purpose, damage figures have to be of sufficient quality and be firmly based on empirical work.
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utilitarian purpose
The day's events are described in the manner of a game with no utilitarian purpose.
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very purpose
Settlers have located themselves contiguous to prairies for the very purpose of getting the benefit of the range.
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