"different purposes from" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used to compare or contrast the reasons or objectives behind two or more actions or decisions. Here is an example sentence: "The car was designed for different purposes from the motorcycle; while the car is meant for comfortable transportation, the motorcycle is primarily used for speed and agility."
A solvent company has completely different purposes from those of insolvent ones.
To be met, they require the existence of broadcasters - public service broadcasters (PSBs) - charged with different purposes from those of commercial suppliers.
This week in Haiti it swung into slow-motion urgent action in the guise of the "humanitarian community", configured for quite different purposes from when it becomes a "coalition of the willing" or "world opinion".
Drilling deeper into the data shows that trips during rush hour are undertaken for many different purposes, from holiday outings with the kids to shopping, visiting friends and for educational purposes, such as dropping the little ones off at school.
Among the safeguards it now places on local records, Suginami-ku's government deliberately tries to prevent such abuses by keeping its databases fragmented, giving each of its half-million residents a different identification number for different purposes, from health, to tax, to residency files.
The obtained nanoparticles can be used for different purposes, from pharmaceutical applications to implementations in different materials technology.
Perhaps these books serve a different purpose from the usual, both for writer and for reader.
It is as if the music programme at Edinburgh is meant to serve a very different purpose from the drama, where cutting-edge productions make annual appearances.
That said, the movie -- with a very different purpose from these statements about Mr. Nash and in a way that is by no means morally or artistically equivalent -- also simplifies and distorts the complex and fascinating life presented in the book.
"Navies of great powers with more than 10 aircraft carrier battle groups with strategic military objectives have a different purpose from countries with only one or two carriers used for offshore defense," he said.
"The machine learning community has long published open research with these kinds of datasets, including many academic researchers with this set of free ebooks – it doesn't harm the authors and is done for a very different purpose from the authors', so it's fair use under US law".
