Sentence examples for past purposes from inspiring English sources

Like the handyman surrounded by a garage full of tools accumulated for past purposes, the moral philosopher takes stock of the problem at hand, surveys her shelves for available conceptual resources, and then attempts to solve the problem by taking things apart, reordering, culling out, weighing, specifying, splicing in, and putting them all back together.

On the south bank sits the Miami Circle, an archeological relic whose past purpose is undetermined.

As has been recently pointed out by others [6], [13], our results indicate that short-term substitution rate estimates can be misleading when they are extrapolated into the distant past for purposes of dating ancient evolutionary events.

But in the past, the purpose of these stories was essentially prophetic.

The Constitution, Roberts said, "is not designed to punish for the past; its purpose is to ensure a better future".

The Amendment is not designed to punish for the past; its purpose is to ensure a better future".

The objects in both were sometimes simple things you might overlook like sand, sex wax, or toilet paper yet the media is pushed past its purpose and into directions where it becomes very attractive work.

It rewrites the past for imperial purposes (for example, stunningly calling the early Korean state of Parhae a part of Chinese, not Korean, history).

Probably, though, Bush did what was expected of him and is now inventing an expedient past for the purposes of public appearance.

Vermont has never stood in the mainstream of the country's history, but its people and land have poured into their country a strength and a sense of continuity that joins the achievements of the nation's past with the purposes of its present.

Several are the features that characterize the residues that are part of a hot spot and these have been exploited in the past for prediction purposes.