Sentence examples for ground or purpose from inspiring English sources

Though there is, or can be, a loosely shared sense of common ground or purpose — say, broadcasting news — the more decentralized nature of Twitter and the continuous stream resists the erection of a rigid structure of directed, divided labor focussed on a single issue.

Where population is lower, advance warning systems, based on sensors at sea to detect tsunamis and effective communications systems to alert people to move to higher ground or purpose built shelters, may be more effective.

With this compliance, the child takes on a life of desire and incompletion, pursuing lost objects with no firm ground or fixed purpose, a lack of plenitude in being that Lacan designates as castration.

Whether they choose to preserve and protect those grounds, or use them for other purposes, green burial can allow future generations greater flexibility in how they will use the land that our living have left to them.

The not-so-secret secret is that the White House has given ground on purpose.

Frantic and full of welcome ties to the past, it also ploughs new ground with purpose.

Poland became the training ground for this purpose.

While Djokovic immediately settled into a comfortable rhythm, hitting his ground strokes with purpose and power, Murray struggled to find any consistency.

So desperate was Canterbury Cricket to be part of the World Cup that it bid for matches even though it had no ground fit for purpose.

The propriety of taking a square of ground for this purpose, at a cost of half a million of dollars, without any benefit, seems quite incomprehensible".

Florida is also a staging ground with a purpose -- the presidential race is dead even here and if Mr. Gore can win it, his advisers believe he can win the election.