Sentence examples for necessary purpose from inspiring English sources

"It's an agency that has served a useful and necessary purpose.

The Border Patrol says it is serving a necessary purpose, and that 25 illegal aliens were intercepted in five days.

These platforms will serve a useful and necessary purpose but they are not intended as a memorial, even a temporary one.

— Do you think the death penalty serves a necessary purpose, like deterring crime, providing relief for victims' families or imparting justice?

Surge protectors aren't very exciting to think about, but they do serve a necessary purpose: safeguarding our gadgets while supplying them with juice.

Britain, which has had a few troops making war on the ground, stands ready, it says, to send thousands for this no less necessary purpose.

By the experiment now making it will be seen by the next session of Congress whether the revenue shall have been so augmented as to be adequate to all these necessary purposes.

The scholia on Aristophanes, Clouds, 859, explain that Pericles entered in his accounts an expenditure εἰς τὰ δέοντα ("for necessary purposes"), which the Lacedaemonians interpreted as being for bribes and accordingly punished some of their leading men.

"We need to start moving towards plastic for absolutely necessary purposes," said Savitz.

While supporters claim its use is intended for specific and necessary purposes, the text itself is difficult to reconcile with that reading.

So the talks do still have a pulse.This hesitant revival showed, however, just how necessary American purpose is in all this.