Sentence examples for historic purpose from inspiring English sources

They do not understand its historic purpose, nor the stories depicted, whether biblical or classical.

Now, now, wait, you display remarkable ignorance about the historic purpose of all-male clubs.

That is too small a number for the debates to fulfill their historic purpose.

Which is not the historic purpose of royal princes, riding out front, leading their troops into the line of fire.

The party would be reinvigorated, and perhaps reborn, if it reasserted its commitment to that historic purpose.

Likewise, the Keystone protesters haven't been defending "the interests of wage-earning Americans," to borrow the historian Michael Kazin's description of the historic purpose of the American left.

Or are we going to maintain buildings for — however laudably it might be — artistic and cultural and historic purposes?

When the ranch was still in Texas, Lyndon B. Johnson once visited it for "historic" purposes, but after the brothel was shut down in the 1970s, the owners picked up and relocated to Nye County, Nev., where prostitution is legal.

The trade corridor once occupied by the long-gone Red River Trails continues to be employed for its historic purposes.

Determining whether the monuments should be retained for historic purposes, or whether some or all should be removed, is a decision requiring gubernatorial and legislative leadership, consultation with historians, and an informed dialogue with constituents.

The current NIH website warns that their information is dated and provided solely for historic purposes [ 53].