The avowed purpose was to promote the influence of Christian principles in the affairs of nations.
In their new job, they have an avowed purpose to hurt their old co-workers.
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.
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.
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.
You do not mention some of the more serious charges levied against Ashraf Ibrahim, mainly his membership in the Socialist Revolutionaries, a militant leftist group whose avowed purpose is to register change in Egypt through violent means.
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.
Their avowed purpose is to remove jurisdiction over his status from the federal Immigration and Naturalization Service, where it properly belongs, and hand it over to a Florida family court as a child-custody dispute.
