Sentence examples for a worthy purpose from inspiring English sources

He is doing so for reasons of efficiency - savings to the public purse - which may be a worthy purpose.

Reducing false alarms may be a worthy purpose, but pushing through this legislation without clearly defining standards and policies doesn't make sense.

Sub-prime mortgages may have been abused by the bankers who rolled them into bonds, but originally they had a worthy purpose.

But huge donations of hundreds of thousands of dollars cannot be justified even if the money is used for a worthy purpose.

Kelly Eshback, head of the parent-teacher organization at the Florence Rideout Elemenatry School in Wilton, N.H., said the books turned snack and cereal advertisements to a worthy purpose.

These rules serve a worthy purpose and most of the ones we've seen so far have been pretty well crafted.

That is a worthy aim.

Once upon a time Encores! was all about rediscovering and restoring unheralded scores, and a return to this worthy purpose reveals a minor delight here.

As Kant expresses part of the idea Green now reiterates, individuals come to recognise a "much more worthy purpose of existence [than private pleasure] … to which … as a supreme condition the private purposes of man must for the most part be subordinated" (G 64).

For those who were content merely to keep their desks clean, a sense of serving a worthy larger purpose lightened the burden of idleness.

As Mr. Spano wrote to the board on June 14, just before he signed the bill: "I believe that the legislation, as currently written, could enable municpalities to interfere with county plans to sell county property for a worthy county purpose, which ultimately could also result in a loss of revenue for the county".