Sentence examples for if not purposeful from inspiring English sources

In his 1997 book, "Epidemics and History Disease, Power, and Imperialism," historian Sheldon Watts even asserts that plague, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, cholera, and the dual mosquito-borne menaces (malaria and yellow fever) imported to the New World by African slaves were serendipitous if not purposeful instruments of European domination until the early 20th century.

Clichés exist for a reason -- power does distort people's behavior, especially if they're not purposeful and diligent about resisting that tendency.

If they are not purposeful, it is likely that these gene transcription phenomena are the result of poorly controlled transcription or are artifacts of the tiling arrays.

"You do get the sense that if the work is not purposeful, he won't stick around.

Hmm.... Simmons' work generates fact checking that consistently shows errors and misleading material if not simply purposeful distortions and falsehoods -- for example, here and here, and this very cogent and direct dissection of a Simmons' op-ed, "Wind power blows past distortions of fossil-fueled opponents".

But she also called the errors careless, not purposeful.

The federal government is the only purposeful force — I assume wars are not purposeful — that can reduce the numbers of the poor and make their lives more bearable.

But then the decisions he takes are too often tactical, not purposeful or strategic.

Their motions are not purposeful but reflexive.

It was not purposeful, but I realize now, I missed working with animals.

Risk analysis for that is not purposeful.