Cole said testimony during Yee's hearing showed that while the Singapore government's stated reason for punishing him involved religion, "its real purpose was to stifle Yee's political speech".
"The stuff in it was real stuff, but what was unusual was that we were using it for its real purpose".
But its real purpose, it seems, is to act as a spoiler for the Communist Party and another party, Just Russia, which itself was originally created as a double for United Russia but has since become a genuine challenger.Engineering clone and fake opposition parties is one of the Kremlin's favourite political "technologies".
And if this novel otherwise remains more comfortable than startling, it never loses its real purpose: to demonstrate that in a world full of iniquity, potential as well as realized, the very least one can do is stay morally vigilant, even if it means making a ruckus at someone's dinner party.
Indeed, that is why even the proponents of Proposition 8 never dared speak the truth about it -- that its real purpose was to effectuate a particular religious doctrine.
Wrongly, but sincerely, they assume that America could have removed Messrs Hussein and Milosevic were that its real purpose; that it has not done so is proof that the United States prefers to leave these tyrants in power, albeit "kept in their boxes" through sanctions and bombing.
The company could sell it by itself, but its real purpose will be as part of yet another new combo dubbed the "quad pill"–to take on Isentress.
In the almost 10 years of Prevent's history, it has been dogged by accusations that its real purpose is not "winning hearts and minds", but spying on British Muslims.
Its real purpose is uncertain; Hülsen conjectures that it is to be identified with the library which Julius Africanus erected for the emperor Alexander Severus.
It is a powerful and effective political tool; its real purpose.
It has a story to tell - but its real purpose is a character study of someone who would be easy to underestimate.
