Sentence examples for except to generate from inspiring English sources

It makes no sense except to generate commissions for someone".

But why on earth would a loudspeaker stop except to generate a cheap effect?

Mr. Starr's inability to hit a big target after so long meant that his inquiry was causing little public stir except to generate criticism from Clinton supporters that he was on a political mission.

In return, the court was told, Hayes offered them "wash trades" – deals which appeared to show that a trade had been carried out but in which nothing actually happened except to generate fees to reward the brokers.

The rise of the blockbuster payout has encouraged C.E.O.s to go for big corporate deals that often have no economic rationale except to generate bonuses for management, and which come at significant societal costs including extensive layoffs and reduced quality of life in cities that formerly housed corporate headquarters and manufacturing facilities.

The rise of the blockbuster payout has encouraged C.E.O.s to go for big corporate deals that often have no economic rationale except to generate bonuses for management, and which come at significant societal costs — including extensive layoffs and reduced quality of life in cities that formerly housed corporate headquarters and manufacturing facilities.

If managers traded in and out of minor holdings with no apparent purpose, except perhaps to generate commissions, we'd know that, too, not just by divining a statistic about share turnover, that funds do disclose, but because we'd see the trading.

In the VY8 index sequence, each position was substituted with every amino acid except cysteine to generate a total of 144 variant peptides, as described previously [ 34].

Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase (PNP) catalyzes the reversible phosphorolysis of N-glycosidic bonds of purine nucleosides and deoxynucleosides, except for adenosine, to generate ribose 1-phosphate and the purine base.

All deletions (except those used to generate the ∆MICOS strain, see below) were generated using PCR-based homologous recombination replacing the entire ORF of targeted genes with the kanMX6, HIS3MX6, or NatMX6 cassettes (Longtine et al., 1998; Schuldiner et al., 2006).

We then analysed each alignment using all of the possible models except the one used to generate the alignment.