Sentence examples for The great purpose from inspiring English sources

The great purpose is legislation.

It belongs to the Executive not to suffer the executions under these decisions to transcend the great purpose for which punishment is necessary.

In the effort I shall make to accomplish this purpose I ask the cordial cooperation of all who cherish an interest in the welfare of the country, trusting that party ties and the prejudice of race will be freely surrendered in behalf of the great purpose to be accomplished.

It was the great purpose of the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment to carry on the task which the Thirteenth Amendment had begun ; in the popular phrase of the time, it sought to transform the recently freed men into genuine free men, enjoying the basic prerogatives of human status.

Most parent conversations ebb and flow with relative ease, and serve the great purpose of solidifying comradery within the parent race.

No matter what side of the tracks you were born on, what kind of childhood you had, what current challenges you're slogging through, or what race, color, creed, or age you are, when you create the right inner conditions, the great purpose for which you were born must emerge.

We need a new kind of politics equal to the challenges we face and the great purposes we wish to advance.

"I have always thought that one of the great purposes of public art is to act as a vehicle for people to have an excuse to talk to each other," Mr. Otterness said.

The principle that Congress may regulate private contracts whenever reasonably necessary to effect any of the great purposes for which the national government was created, Highland v. Russell Car & Snow Plow Co., supra, at page 261 of 279 U.S., 49 S.Ct.

I take it to be an elementary rule of constitutional construction that no one provision of the Constitution is to be segregated from all the others, and to be considered alone, but that all the provisions bearing upon a particular subject are to be brought into view and to be so interpreted as to effectuate the great purposes of the instrument.

Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers.