Sentence examples for failed purpose from inspiring English sources

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The gift must show charitable intention; that the settlor intended not just a gift to a particular (failed) purpose or organisation, but a more general charitable intention.

"There are awkward parallels between the failed reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the failed purpose of Guantánamo," Peter Van Buren, a former State Department official, and the author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, told me.

Prior to the Charities Act 1960, this "failed purpose" situation was the only time when cy-près could be applied; it required the original purpose to be impossible or impractical.

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Quite so, because Labour has utterly failed - on purpose - to say whose side it's on or what it believes, so the message never reached every corner of every place that stands to benefit.

He praised the document as "a thorough and thoughtful study of practices that I believe not only failed their purpose — to secure actionable intelligence to prevent further attacks on the U.S. and our allies — but actually damaged our security interests, as well as our reputation as a force for good in the world".

"I basically failed on purpose because I didn't want any other choice than to have to succeed at music.

A particular business may serve your purpose for a while and then fail that purpose, either because the particular business becomes less valuable or you become less able as owners to effectively support it.

After examining the statute, its legislative history, and its historical and social context, the Court holds that the Louisiana Legislature acted without "a secular legislative purpose," and that the Act therefore fails the "purpose" prong of the three-part test set forth in Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602, 612 (1971).

After examining the statute, its legislative history, and its historical and social context, the Court holds that the Louisiana Legislature acted without "a secular legislative purpose," and that the Act therefore fails the "purpose" prong of the three-part test set forth in 586, 593-594, 596.

Increasingly, engineering orgs are building tests that fail on purpose in order to build better reliability into systems.

Don't fail on purpose.

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