Sentence examples for not primarily for from inspiring English sources

"Guantánamo is not primarily for investigation, but for the gathering of intelligence," Mr. Scheinin said.

Senior civil servants have chosen a public service career, not primarily for monetary gain but rather to make a difference.

These three seemed happy enough to be onstage again, but you could tell they were doing it for the fans, for the people of Zimbabwe — not, primarily, for themselves.

These young artists were chosen not primarily for their singing voices but for their skills as actors and their willingness to rethink what it means to be an opera performer.

Her non-sexual nakedness is a statement so absurdly simple it feels silly to write it down, but yet almost never appears on screen: the skin and the form underneath a woman's clothes are not primarily for the visual consumption and sexual enjoyment of men.

And although it changed shape over time, its basic proposal remains intact: Many of the things we now call art — the very concept was largely a product of 18th-century Europe — were originally significant not primarily for their visual appeal but for their use as tools for thinking about, coping with, probing the world.

He really introduced the modern idea of saving a site, showing a site--the idea that a site isn't primarily for publication to archeologist, it's an opportunity to show us all about our past".

Later that night, nibbling on the turkey sandwich he gave me, I proudly told another girl in my dorm, "I'm fasting for Ramadan!" For the first time, I was doing something that wasn't primarily for my parents or for good grades.

The producers of The Bachelor know that a sizable portion of its audience, cheekily known as "Bachelor Nation", is wise enough to see through the artifice of it all and aren't so naive that they believe the marriages dramatized on the show aren't primarily for the benefit of the cameras.

On the other hand, Colton points out, what qualifies as an unreimbursed employee business expense involves judgment; you might decide those business dinners and subscriptions weren't primarily for your job after all if it saves you some bucks.

Noted primarily for his unrestrained abandon, dishing out of body checks and general stinginess in front of his own net, Witt chucked the knuckles, too, when needed.