Sentence examples for Against the purpose from inspiring English sources

I think that goes against the purpose of what we're trying to do".

Thus, information sharing may work against the purpose of gaining trust through transparency.

He criticised the current system of incarceration as going completely against the purpose of youth justice, telling the hearing yesterday Don Dale in particular was run "like a human storage facility".

"It goes against the purpose and point of Model U.N. and, for that matter, the real U.N.," said Phill Venice, a University of Pennsylvania senior who has participated in 37 conferences.

This unsanctioned change of proteins went against the purpose of the posted weekly menu, which was to lower daily stress by preparing the children for their dinners ahead — no surprises, no potential conflicts with lunch — and while Robert himself never trusted anyone who pushed product, whether stocks or warranties or halibut, he decided to let the matter pass without correction.

But a University of Sydney shark policy expert, Dr Christopher Neff, said classifying a shark as an imminent threat on the basis of scientific tagging data went against the purpose of tagging, which was to study their movements as an indication of what the wider, untagged shark population might be doing.

I'm talking about crying while walking around, banging-his-head-against-the-cabinets-on-purpose cranky.

Politically motivated terrorism, defined as the use of violence against noncombatants for the purpose of demoralization and intimidation, is an extremely old phenomenon.

Against this background, the purpose of the present study was to investigate how different aspects of perfectionism predict performance and performance increments.

In 701 there followed his most famous campaign, against Syria and Palestine, with the purpose of gaining control over the main road from Syria to Egypt in preparation for later campaigns against Egypt itself.

Omar Barghouti, a Palestinian who supports boycotts and sanctions against Israel, said the purpose of the railway was "to make the colonial settlements far more attractive by cutting travel time to the city centre".