Sentence examples for exists not to from inspiring English sources

Yet in Afghanistan God exists not to prevent sins but to justify them.

Pakistan, 63 years after its founding, still exists not to be India.

"The Jinx" is a model of post-facto filmmaking, which exists not to be seen but to be discussed.

Britain's nuclear deterrent, Sir Humphrey explains to an uncomprehending Jim, exists not to protect us against the Russians – but against the French.

(In one universalist interpretation, the famous lake of fire, in Revelation, exists not to torment the unsaved but to purify them).

It warned residents of Asian countries where the disease exists not to keep ducks as pets, let them into houses or drink from ponds they use.

"I exist not to be loved," he tells her, "but to act".

I was intrigued to discover that Fabritius's painting really does exist – not, to be fair, that this matters a jot to the novel.

They believed, MacMillan writes, "that the National Air and Space Museum existed not to encourage public debate, but to commemorate the glories of flight and of airpower and to reinforce Americans' patriotism".

As Dr. Wilson sees it, genes exist, not to call the shots or delimit the possibilities, but to create "miniature evolutionary processes" that continue throughout life, he said.

These techniques existed not to memorize useless information like decks of playing cards but to etch into the brain foundational texts and ideas.