Sentence examples for mere purpose from inspiring English sources
"mere purpose" is a correct and usable expression in written English
You would typically use it in a sentence to mean that something is done without any other agenda or intention. For example: "The CEO proposed the merger to pursue a mere purpose of increasing company profits."
(Numbers would suffice to delineate mere purpose, he says, pointing darkly to Auschwitz).
If hipsters are supporting small businesses for the mere purpose of instagram decoration, what of it?
"I was surprised, because I always had faith in the audience that they would realise that this was a fictitious country and the mere purpose of it was to allow people to bring out their own prejudices.
And what he actually said on the spur of the moment to Bishop Wilberforce, comparing a "miserable ape" favourably to a powerful and brilliant man who used his gifts "for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a scientific discussion", is funnier and sharper than the monkey-bishop joke to which it has been reduced.
It is possible that a few users want to share their knowledge with others, whereas others are doing this for the mere purpose of gaining reputation points.
Therefore, the number (3 days) was chosen to be sure that a user is taking time to find the question, and is posting an answer on his/her website for the mere purpose of promotion.
In a cereal legume temporary row-intercropping, the legume component is ploughed into the soil before cereal shooting; thus the legume is used with a mere fertility purpose in order to improve N availability for the cereal component.
However, as a location where masses of people flock to every day, subway stops can come to serve more than a mere practical purpose.
The Organic Consumers Association has launched the Fair World Project to promote fair trade in commerce, especially in organic production systems in developing countries as well as at home, and to protect the term "fair trade" from dilution and misuse for mere PR purposes.
The choice of testing the concentration of 10 ng ml−1 as a potential prognostic discriminant was made for mere illustrative purposes (the analysis of Table 3 does not indicate any distinct threshold level as most suitable for clinical use, but suggests that the prognostic value of postoperative CEA is more probably related to the whole distribution of its levels).
The phenomenon of REM rebound suggests that dreams serve a purpose beyond mere entertainment.
