After a marital row, he takes their son away for a sleepover with his gran purely to prevent Fanta from leaving him.
By contrast, no one queried the Tokyo fire fighters drafted in to help, or the soldiers and sailors pitching in: their disinterest was apparent, their motivation purely to prevent catastrophe and help the nation.
Berenson told us that on the day she left prison last May, she avoided saying goodbye to her fellow inmates — to women she regarded as family — purely to prevent being exposed in an emotional state when she appeared before the phalanx of press that was waiting outside.
Pursued at my age purely to slow, not prevent, my musculature's turning to pudding, my dreary little fitness regimen doesn't begin to compare to any proper athlete's training.
A purely efficient intervention would prevent 4,008 HIV infections over a year.
In order to avoid confusion and prevent assumptions purely based on the name, we will hereafter use the designations HtrA, HhoA and HhoB for the Synechocystis 6803 Deg/HtrA proteases, and DegP, DegQ and DegS for the E. coli paralogues.
But the vast rural population and purely agrarian structure prevented the spread of liberal and national ideas to any great extent during the first part of the 19th century.
John Temple Swing, the president emeritus of the private Foreign Policy Association, said that under a Law of the Sea treaty negotiated in the early 1980's, China's rights to the larger, 188-mile zone were purely economic and would not prevent other countries from sending ships or planes there.
No longer are HIV medical providers purely focused on how to prevent progression to AIDS and death in infected individuals.
If the future of ground zero was defined in architectural terms, that was to prevent it from being defined purely by the terms of real estate development, terms in which cultural values do not begin to figure.
