Sentence examples for had the purpose from inspiring English sources

"Imperial Tobacco categorically denies that these promotional arrangements had the purpose or effect of restricting competition," the company said in a statement this morning.

During the 19th and 20th centuries, the increased use of competitive mass elections in western Europe had the purpose and effect of institutionalizing the diversity that had existed in the countries of that region.

The draft deal also says member states should be able to use the "abuse of free movement rights" as a reason to deny a visa, if the couple "had the purpose of evading the application of national immigration rules".

The depiction of scenes from his previous lives in fresco and relief sculpture also had the purpose of teaching the Buddhist ethics to the people, as the Jatakas emphasized certain moral virtues of the Buddha in his previous lives; it also gave an opportunity to the artist to introduce local colour by using, as background, scenes from his own contemporary time.

Mexico's intervention in the General Council on May 1st had the purpose of reminding us all about rule 38, not of "gagging" the press.ALEJANDRO DE LA PEÑAPermanent representative of Mexico to the WTOGenevaUnparliamentarySIR Surely Lexington must be joking (May 8th) about the separation of powers and America's government.

This had the purpose of helping the mediators become familiar with DA.

The characteristic behaviour seems to have the purpose of calling attention to oneself.

The app framework's Privacy Modules have the purpose of informing the app users about what exactly the app is doing.

The inverse CRF has the purpose of restoring the linear dependence between light and image values, represented as radiance values.

"These are camps which have the purpose of driving the people being detained there towards a slow death".

The adhesive procedures have the purpose of promoting adhesion between the restorative material and the tooth enamel and dentin [1 3].