Sentence examples for a more purposive from inspiring English sources

Following the 1969 Law Commission report The Interpretation of Statutes, British courts began to use a more purposive approach, which directed that when interpreting a statute they should examine the purpose behind it, rather than simply using the text of the statute itself.

What results is a more purposive comparison strategy in place of the somewhat arbitrary criterion of statistical significance, which plays virtually no role in AIC models.

In contrast, other studies of CONSORT have selected a more purposive sample of papers from CONSORT-adopting and non-adopting journals [6], [8] [9].

They can inform equipment placement for continuous monitoring and facilitate a transition from exploratory to more purposive sampling.

However, this is of secondary importance in tests of the validation of an instrument, where sampling should be more purposive and related to the needs of each element of the validation process [ 13].

If McCarthy had known that Merian learned her entomology by rearing silkworms when she was a little girl, he might have made more purposive use of her work.

As Martin Mayer notes in Making News, broadcast style is "at once looser, more conversational than printed prose and yet more purposive and orotund in rhetoric". Its swiftness and leanness is an auditory illusion, comparable to the laconism of Ernest Hemingway and Elmore Leonard, whose mannered dialogue looks so "lifelike" on the page.

More purposive sampling governed by emerging insights would have helped to clarify details of the promising themes.

This may be due to different structural contexts and histories of colonization and racialization, and warrants more purposive investigation.

More purposive exploration of HIV testing among YMSM with either bisexual identity or behavior is warranted [ 47].

The proportion of GPs reporting participation in dementia education appears to be higher in our sample that in other overseas surveys which used more purposive sampling strategies.