Sentence examples for first purpose was from inspiring English sources

His first purpose was to insist on the "truth" of the depiction of Nature in Turner's landscape paintings.

The first purpose was to identify barriers to physical activity that students in grade seven through first-year university experienced.

A prime example of the first purpose was the enclosure in 1926 32, by means of a dike some 17 miles in length, of a large inlet known as the Zuiderzee (renamed the IJsselmeer after its enclosure).

The first purpose was to summarize the transportation and planning studies on the relation between community design and non-motorized ("active") transport and to interpret these studies from a health perspective.

In fact, his first purpose was to maximize the correlation girth while keeping an acceptable minimum Hamming distance.

So the first purpose was information.

"Gun control" means controlling those things whose first purpose is to help people kill other people.

The first purpose is to promote respect for a State's legitimate procedural rules.

My first purpose is to challenge hard – as I have been since the early autumn when I got the job – what the Tories are doing to the health service.

Welby's first purpose is to urge viewers to prayer: "As we pray, we engage with God in the struggle against human evil," he says.

"Our first purpose is not to have any more victims in Vilnius," said Boris Oleinik, a Soviet parliamentary leader and a member of the delegation.