Today we often call this "gossip," though in recent years there has been discussion in sociology circles that gossip is both positive and negative and, regardless, serves an essential purpose in human societies.
As one cannot initiate a disease in humans, and is it not possible to test some potential disease-modification drugs on humans before the drugs' effectiveness is demonstrated, animal models serve an essential purpose in human biomedical research.
"We have opinions of counsel that such bonds would serve an essential purpose," he said.
It is an essential purpose that we designed this low-energy cluster chamber for graphene preparation.
The task of the restaurant, with its starched & conic napkins, its muslin flowers, its Musivac lullabies, its servile waiters, is to disguise from us the disgusting nature of our essential purpose in coming hither.
Crops planted for the specific purpose of energy production are expected to play an essential role in meeting the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 in the United States.
But she is clearly a fictionalized creation who serves an essential narrative purpose — the conflation in one attractive, patriotic woman of all the practical, police-work determination to find Bin Laden from which her country, the United States, had found myriad distractions at the mall.
In a letter to his schoolteacher friend, Downie Kirk, Lowry refers to the work of the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, who criticised Goethe's "many-sidedness" as being a distraction from his essential purpose: that of being a writer.
It must be substantially a proceeding in rem". "Its essential purpose or nature is to establish, by the judgment of the court, a demand or claim against the defendant, and subject his property lying within the territorial jurisdiction of the court to the payment of that demand.
But — and this is the strange logic of deterrence — the essential purpose of investing billions in civil defense was not to save lives but to enhance the credibility of America's nuclear threat.
He produced plans for building shelters in the rock below Manhattan, estimating that "very high-quality" shelter spaces could be constructed there for between five hundred and nine hundred dollars apiece. But and this is the strange logic of deterrence the essential purpose of investing billions in civil defense was not to save lives but to enhance the credibility of America's nuclear threat.
