Sentence examples for pointed purpose from inspiring English sources

But, in a nation where past horror is still near, Mr. Putin clearly felt he had to make gestures to ease Poles' anger at Russia even if business was the visit's pointed purpose.

"More than any other product, the buying and selling of water is an industry based on nothing," said Menno Liauw, a Dutch advertising executive and a founder of the Neau Foundation, which pokes fun at bottled water, but with a pointed purpose.

In the brief blossoming of dissent in 1956 known as the "Hundred Flowers", Fang had asked pointed questions about the purpose of education.

At a time when university literature departments are confronting painful budget cuts, a moribund job market and pointed scrutiny about the purpose and value of an education in the humanities, the cross-pollination of English and psychology is providing a revitalizing lift.

The proposal of the paper consists in the introduction of the multi-triggering acquisition modality and adaptive evaluation of the ATI, with the proper hardware Logic Flat Amplifier and Trigger (L-FAT) generator block designed and pointed-out to this purpose.

And 9/11 gave the entire city of New York a pointed demonstration that there is purpose to life beyond accumulating material goods.

The earnest couple had a strange pointed shovel, shaped specifically for the purpose, and a battered bucket.

Point to its pointed teeth.

At a meeting with diplomats in Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres was peppered with questions about the purpose of the siege, including pointed queries from the American ambassador, Daniel C. Kurtzer.

Any other fine-pointed object, such a seam ripper, could serve this purpose.

Even as he hits the high notes about family and faith, Mr. Bush's pointed subtext in his five-day, six-state "Renewing America's Purpose" tour is President Clinton and Monica S. Lewinsky.