Sentence examples for for instrumental purposes from inspiring English sources

In several British colonies, for example, acclimatisation societies imported wild animals and plants, releasing them sometimes for instrumental purposes, sometimes for "moral" reasons.

The findings revealed that both parents and their children value education for instrumental purposes and, while age and employment status made no difference to the parents' value of education, there was a statistically significant difference in value of education between parents with children attending different school types.

Such voluntary associations are formed not merely for instrumental purposes, as contributions to our freedom, but are expressive of it.

This would still leave one subject to the objection that life is being created for instrumental purposes.

Previous research has associated peer-rated social dominance with peer-directed aggression (e.g., Savin-Williams, 1979) that is used for instrumental purposes (Hawley, 1999).

Seeking to elicit them using extrinsic motivators, for instrumental purposes, is likely to have perverse effects.

This is all of a piece with our lazy acceptance of jargon, using words for merely instrumental purposes rather than for genuine expression.

Killing a sentient animal for purely instrumental purposes (i.e., when there is no benefit to the animal itself, unlike when suffering animals are euthanized) should never be undertaken lightly.

This means that philosophers should not only tolerate religion for their own instrumental purposes but that philosophy is challenged by revelation, understood as law and not as knowledge, on moral grounds.

Students like this must be truly bewildered when they enter almost any traditional college and they're taught by people for whom knowledge is valued for itself and not for any instrumental purpose.

Whenever there is a feminist backlash against any of it, it is always levelled at the performers themselves; Cyrus is accused of being a bad role model, giving girls this mechanistic view of their own sexuality, where it is something to be deployed for an instrumental purpose.