Sentence examples for only purposeful from inspiring English sources

Justice Kennedy also declared — repeatedly — that only purposeful violations of the prohibition can be prosecuted.

She is always a remarkably watchable dancer, not only purposeful and motivated but always apparently impelled by her own inner life too.

The federal government is the only purposeful force — I assume wars are not purposeful — that can reduce the numbers of the poor and make their lives more bearable.

Libraries call their bookshelves "stacks," but the only purposeful book stacking most of us do is on our coffee tables, where books are shuffled on and off like favorite playlists on an iPod.

The resulting competency gap entails that a shaping of work processes is only purposeful if guided by the "Internet of Things".

Teleological reasoning is closely related to the intentionality constraint the tendency to assume that events are not only purposeful but that they may be caused by an intentional agent, an agent with a "mind of its own".

Too long, yes, but purposeful.

There is method, all too often muddled, to Mr. Walker's ostensible madness, but it is clear that only such purposeful madness can offer peace, even salvation.

The worry is that retributivists will seek to justify only the purposeful infliction of hardship on wrongdoers, and will ignore the overall costs of the practice.

During the course of evolution, not only the purposeful hunting of animals but potentially also of humans may mediate powerful social and psychological rewards and hence interact with the vulnerability of psychological disorders [ 17].

Yet for lengthy periods last night's match threatened to be more about tears of frustration than delight as Portsmouth struggled to beat not only an admirably purposeful Burnley but their own nerves.