Sentence examples for obscure purpose from inspiring English sources

At the same time, the series works beyond those "in the know" because it instinctively reminds many of us of office life: middle managers of obscure purpose and large pay packet; the tendency of the undeserving to be promoted, leaving less politically attuned, but frequently more able, folk in their wake; flirtations and rivalries played out by the watercooler; IT muddles.

Informational text that is defined as complex might require specialized knowledge, have multiple meanings, and an obscure purpose.

Despite its obscure purpose, the budget for USCYBERCOM doubled in 2014, presumably providing its director, Keith Alexander, with cyber awareness that is greater than ever.

By last year, Parmalat, based here in north central Italy, stood at the center of a galaxy of 120 different companies, often with obscure purposes.

I envisioned its shelves happily lined with rusty Horn & Hardart coffee cans, out of which spring thickets of paintbrushes, screwdrivers and odd tools with obscure purposes.

An unemployed loner starts following people for something to do and discovers his target is a burglar who steals things for obscure purposes: "You take it away, you show them what they had".

For some obscure dramatic purpose, the female partner is either a Scot or portraying one.

Though we may disagree with the White House at certain stages of the peace process, we must never allow such differences to obscure the purpose we share or to raise doubts about the unbreakable bonds between us.

For instance, a gratuitous reference to my work, along with Geoffrey Hill's, as "serious-minded to the point of pain and obscure of purpose" by Roger Lewis in the Times ("Say no to pompous professors") shows Lewis has conflated a superficial impression of Hill with a blurred and misleading one of me.

The CNIL also says that it's often too hard to understand how your data is being used — Google's wording is broad and obscure on purpose.

However in view of the current proliferation of support costs of various types which obscure the purpose and the measurability of the policy, I recommend that the Secretariat be requested to prepare a comprehensive but much simplified framework for support cost arrangements.