Sentence examples similar to a professed purpose from inspiring English sources

Noyes then included a long excerpt from Pierce's article with the professed purpose of showing "how a writer could build up to such a quote" and showing how Pierce "paints the Senator as as much a victim of his name as someone who has personally benefited from it".

We should be grateful to Martin for doing so, even if most of his discoveries do little to further the professed purpose of his book.

Formed with the professed purpose of fighting rural crime, state police in Pennsylvania (and later in other states) were used primarily to circumvent corrupt or inefficient local police forces and to control strikes in areas where local police were sympathetic to unions.

This alone negated the professed purpose of the hijacking.

The problem is that our national narrative about "college" has created a decidedly false dichotomy between the two primarily professed purposes of college.

We have now touched upon the canons for criticizing the method of natural science, and have considered what is the most systematic and easy course of investigation; we have also dealt with division, and the mode of conducting it so as best to attain the ends of science, and have shown why dichotomy is either impracticable or inefficacious for its professed purposes.

He was a professed socialist.

This is a genuine and not just a professed passion.

A professed psychic offers 21 principles for living.

For a man with a professed love for "the smell of concrete," the city was intoxicating.

Gideon is a professed history buff who has all but made a career of historical impersonations.