Sentence examples for opposite purpose from inspiring English sources

Instead it is often used for precisely the opposite purpose.

However, history has shown that identity can also be used for the opposite purpose.

I regret that I write with the opposite purpose," he began.

"Subverting medicines meant to heal the human body to the opposite purpose was an enterprise doomed to failure," he writes.

The second uses the same sorts of artifice for the opposite purpose — to imagine foreign, even utopian, futures.

Instead, it has come to serve the exact opposite purpose — to prevent the Senate from even conducting routine business.

In duets his couples are never at opposite purposes.

Ironically, the most celebrated architects actually use evermore exotic geometries for the opposite purpose--to broadcast their personal interests.

While it has been argued that this could be used to eradicate a population of disease- (e.g. malaria) carrying mosquitos, it is also plausible to speculate that it could also be used for the opposite purposes, in a perfect instance of a dual-use dilemma (research that can be used for good and for bad purposes).

The two isoforms exert opposite purposes; TAp63 isoform has similar function to the wild-type p53 protein, while ΔNp63 is thought to antagonize TAp63 and p53 in target gene regulation.

CSB performs two main functions by counteracting p53 activity: first, by interacting with p53, CSB releases and redistributes the limiting transcriptional co-factor p300 acetyl-transferase to gene expression programs with opposite purposes (pro-survival pathways) [12]; second, CSB down-regulates the cellular levels of p53, by stimulating its ubiquitination and degradation [13].