Sentence examples for but to clarify from inspiring English sources

Moreover, the experience of war is not used here to attack the idea of war but to clarify its nature in suffering.

She argued that the issue was merely a technical fine point, made not to take rights from artists but to clarify the recording companies' copyright status in the current environment.

"However, after a year or so, when the briefings and the meetings had fixed themselves as open-minded institutions, whose purpose was not to advocate but to clarify, we felt that we had sufficiently established the legitimacy of our business".

He will touch up the shading of a foreground wall, not to "renew" the picture — an impossible presumption — but to clarify the sense of "what is going on" in that part of it.

Given the oversight of the European Parliament, the European Court of Justice and the European voting public, the E.U. had no choice but to clarify its position against any funding for settlement-based entities.

We are saying what we are saying not out of weakness or as a tactic to an illegitimate end but to clarify facts as we see them.... On that basis, we apologize to God for any action that may anger the Almighty if such an action took place in the past, unbeknownst to us but considered to be our responsibility, and to you we apologize on this basis as well.

So I thought it could be helpful to respond, not in defence, but just to clarify.

Google confirmed the purchase but declined to clarify specifics of the acquisition.

The Europeans say they do not want to change the WTO's environmental rules, but simply to clarify them.

"We are not seeking to change the law, but rather to clarify that the Kentucky statute does not apply to federal elections.

Today's Guardian appeared with a correction to the story — but only to clarify that Chicago is not the capital of Illinois, just its largest city.