Thankfully, a blizzard loses much of its menace on a mountain, where it achieves a purpose.
At first, humans were casual tool users, employing convenient sticks or stones to achieve a purpose and then discarding them.
One provision of the rules says that health care providers must not use or disclose any personal health information beyond the "minimum necessary" to achieve a purpose.
Technology is the systematic application of knowledge to achieve a purpose valued by a group or a society.
Design focuses on imagination and creation of what might be to achieve a purpose, moving toward "what should be" (Burton and Obel 2011: 467).
If one is restrained, incapacitated by violent means, or denied essential means to achieve a purpose, then it may be fairly obvious why one has an excuse for not doing otherwise than one did (See Anderson 2010).
The Hallidayan view of language as a social semiotic may explain how social actors, such as politicians, may dexterously employ linguistic resources as a means to achieve a purpose that lies outside discourse.
We also designed the Unusual Use of Objects Test, which demands unusual applications of objects to achieve a purpose for which the usually applied object is not provided (e.g., screwing a screw with a knife).
What followed was a methodical implementation of all the things he knew I liked (because in the time we'd been sleeping together I'd shown him these things), but his motions were forced and desperate, overly designed to achieve a purpose rather than luxuriate in the sometimes disgusting but entirely natural things I like done to me.
Among specific CB conceptual difficulties, the most prevalent (15%) was the use of teleology or the implication that organisms evolve to achieve a purpose (CB1; see Student Excerpts 2 for an example).
