Just when Martínez needed a show of character, purpose or resistance – preferably a combination of all three – his team imploded.
At a time when other management gurus were obsessed with how to build a better organisation, Mr Covey argued that personal character, purpose and self-discipline were what mattered.
Manchester Apprentice is the foundation of enterprise that we want to install within our university students, from their unique way of thinking, to celebrating personal attributes like character, purpose and self-discipline, giving us an identity of what we as individuals, can positively bring to society.
The Philadelphia Inquirer columnist David Hiltbrand condemned the violent scene with Victor's death, which he called "totally gratuitous... serv[ing] no plot or character purpose".
The mobster and canine plot lines soon entwine — especially as the dog takes on a role that may be a MacGuffin but certainly serves a character purpose.
Few monastic orders the Benedictines and the Carmelites are notable exceptions still attempt to preserve the ancient character and purposes of monasticism in Roman Catholicism.
What are these character's purposes?
They had lightness, character, inner purpose, strength of design; they were good enough to make you go home and listen to old records — by Powell, by Sonny Clark, by the young Hank Jones — to find out if jazz was really like this once.
It is, rather, that the very character and purpose of the sciences takes us so far beyond questions of prosperity.
