Sentence examples for against its purpose from inspiring English sources

But there is a defence against its purpose.

"Recurring Awakening" is no exception: "yes, you are certainly dead, all the signs point to it," the speaker says, and yet, with its livening details — the red on the blackbird, the crystallization of the dead branch, the bird's beak opening though its eyes cannot — the poem strains against its purpose: acknowledging death and bidding farewell.

Under the "rule of reason," the standard more commonly applied to an antitrust challenge, the anticompetitive consequences of a challenged practice are weighed against its purpose and procompetitive effect.

It is not up to FDA to make recommendations about who should take the test and for what purposes, nor to advise against its use.

Ms. Dick said that a letter from her husband to his editor and agent revealed plans to "have a great scientist design and build a computer system and then get trapped in its virtual reality," and added: "The computer would be so advanced that it developed humanlike intelligence and rebelled against its frivolous purpose of managing a theme park".

An obsession with cost reduction produces a narrowness of vision and an organizational backlash that work against its underlying purpose.

CAIRO — Egypt's top military commander, Gen. Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, went on the air Sunday to defend the army's decision to oust Mohamed Morsi, the country's first democratically elected president, on July 3. "The armed forces remained committed to what it considered the legitimacy of the ballot box until this presumed legitimacy moved against its own purpose," General el-Sisi said.

Instead, they have presented their own arguments against divestment that misunderstand its purpose and misrepresent the reality of the fossil fuel industry.

Then, system dissimilation is the tendency that a system undergoes an apparent or hidden destructive change against its original purposes or designed availability.

System dissimilation states that any system tends to undergo a continuous degradation that leads to the eventual loss of its designed utility and against its initial purposes to build the system.

Current rules allow the firm to set interest payments on its debts against its income for tax purposes, and so the Revenue got nothing.