Sentence examples for honest purpose from inspiring English sources

You do everything you can to show people that you are open and there with an honest purpose.

Simon Stevens was a protégé of the radical leader Thaddeus Stevens, who in turn raged that the committee had "no honest purpose to know the truth" except to go "scandal-hunting".

The general words of a fraudulent misapplication to the use and benefit of the defendant, and of an intent by so doing to defraud the bank, are of themselves inconsistent with an honest purpose.

The war ended, we married, raised families, pursued careers -- and believed that our lives would be filled with honest purpose and that the world would be a better place.

Where, however, the statute uses words which are not absolutely inconsistent with an honest purpose, such as was held by this court in Britton's Case were the words 'will-fully misapplied,' the allegation of an intent to defraud becomes material, in the highest degree.

Their delay in the construction of the road west of Ca non City and through the Grand Ca non seems to have been in the interest of the stockholders they represented, and not inconsistent with an honest purpose, within the period fixed by law, to meet the objects for which Congress granted to it the right of way.

The note might have been delivered to the defendant for a score of honest purposes, which it would be utterly impossible to anticipate.

Will the EU force's helicopter pilots be able to tell the difference between boats that are sometimes used for illicit trafficking and those that are put exclusively to honest purposes?There are diplomatic obstacles, too.

I do not assent to the doctrine that the note might have been delivered to the defendant for a score of honest purposes, which it would be unnecessary to negative, and that, in criminal pleading, it is not required to anticipate and negative a natural and obvious answer to the accusation.

The clarity that comes when you get honest with yourself and answer these questions will bring focus to your journey toward true purpose.

"The effect of all this 'domestic outsourcing' ― and, let's be honest, its actual purpose," Hobbes writes, "is that workers get a lot less out of their jobs than they used to".