Sentence examples for its central purpose from inspiring English sources

For centuries now the screw has held things together, and for almost as long it has been frustratingly inept at its central purpose.

There are plenty of critics of the Bill who believe that this is its central purpose.

That left Labour governing in conflict with its central purpose - using competition to fix the social recession that market fundamentalism created in the first place.

At the heart of the case "are two competing conceptions of the institution of marriage, and of its central purpose," Cooper declared.

Its central purpose is to ensure that no other country exploits foreign nuclear energy assistance to make a bomb, as India did.

Yes there would be a pool, but its central purpose would be to ward off fire should the local native plants not do the job.

Familiar Recipients A common perception of philanthropy is that one of its central purposes is to alleviate the suffering of society's least fortunate and therefore promote greater equality, taking some of the burden off government.

One of its central purposes should be to uncover the determinants of human wellbeing.

Its real problem is that for decades now it has utterly failed in its central function, the whole purpose of its existence, namely to hold the government strictly and effectively to account.

"The focus in this country has been on economic issues which prevents people from remembering the EU's purpose was to use economic measures to achieve its central political purpose of preventing wars - and in that it has been hugely successful".

Friends of Mr Blair suggest he would make it a central purpose of his mission to work to restore Palestinian unity after the armed takeover of the Gaza Strip by the Islamist movement Hamas.