"evident purpose" is an acceptable phrase in written English.
It can be used to indicate a purpose that is apparent or can be inferred. For example, "The team worked together with an evident purpose to make the office Christmas party a success."
It's used consistently as well, and with evident purpose.
They labor under more rules than the National Assembly but to even less evident purpose, and never touch.
In no particular order and to no very evident purpose, I accumulated a hodgepodge of culinary lore.
He said the evident purpose of the provision was simply to protect bankrupt companies against discrimination at the hands of federal regulators.
To give the statute the construction contended for would not only defeat the evident purpose, but would make the whole proceeding farcical.
But the Internal Revenue Service is already getting tougher, and is seeking to force disclosure of who bought some shelters whose evident purpose was to reduce taxes by concealing dubious maneuvers from Uncle Sam.
The images do not have an immediately evident commercial purpose, but Google is used to exploring first and asking (or, at least, answering) questions later.
Lyndon Johnson awarded the first medal posthumously to the late president along with the other recipients Kennedy had chosen (with less evident political purpose than the Clintons) -- among them, E.B. White, Edward Steichen and Edmund Wilson.
Israel is wrong to hit buildings with no evident military purpose and houses packed with civilians, even if they harbour Hamas fighters or officials and the army gives warnings.
In general, we use ritual to "refer to any fixed or stereotyped practice, behavioral pattern, or embellishment that has no evident instrumental purpose beyond communication or symbolization" (Winzeler 2012 ch.6).
The majority never explains why this should be true, but the explanation is self-evident: the purpose of the damages the majority authorizes can only be to punish wrongdoers and deter future wrongdoing.
