It is ironic that industries whose front groups accuse us of bullying are themselves pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into elections, for the plainly avowed purpose of threatening and punishing elected officials who dare to cross them and acknowledge the dangers of carbon-driven climate change.
The avowed purpose of the intuitionist is to consider only what can actually be established constructively in logic and in mathematics—i.e., what can actually be known.
Though the themes of his books were not overtly political, he wrote with an avowed purpose: to instill in his readers a respect for Native American culture.
Lawrence Wright's avowed purpose in writing "Going Clear" is to understand why Scientology, a religion known for its bizarre creation myth, mining of church members' secrets and draconian punishment system, has appeal.
In their new job, they have an avowed purpose to hurt their old co-workers.
And then in May in New York, the U.N. will host the 2010 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty review conference for the purpose of measuring progress to achieving the pact's avowed purpose: the complete abolition of every nuclear arsenal.
The avowed purpose was to promote the influence of Christian principles in the affairs of nations.
Polly Wells is deputy assistant literary editor for poetry at a Yale magazine whose first cover depicts a defecating dog and whose avowed purpose is bringing grit and realism to the students' lives.
To invalidate critical comments from London and Paris, Beneš consented late in July 1938 to the mission of Lord Runciman, whose avowed purpose was to observe and report on conditions within the country.
Garcilaso's avowed purpose is to correct the Spanish histories of the conquest of the Andes (hence the title "commentaries"), which were written by men who did not even know the Quechuan languages spoken by the natives of Peru.
