Sentence examples for purpose and when from inspiring English sources

"Rules have a purpose, and when you violate them, there are consequences," Mr. Schafer said in a statement.

Professional sport – especially an all-consuming, 50-hours-a-week one such as cricket – provides structure and purpose, and when it goes you are cast adrift.

It's an activity that appears to have zero educational or scientific purpose, and when the worst happens you can only think … well, duh?

They are also internally documented in order to both briefly explain their purpose and, when required, guide the user through their customization.

Even when I don't feel like it, I try to remind myself to be thankful, out loud, on purpose and when I do, I feel better.

Flood plains serve a crucial purpose, and when a river as prodigious as the Mississippi is denied a place to send its excesses, the land itself, and the people who depend on it, suffer in the long run.

They are raised for commercial purposes and when they don't produce, they are expendable".

"So many of these buildings have been retrofitted for security purposes, and when you do that, there are holes.

This is important for design purposes and when assigning only a few measured eigenvalues to the analytical model.

These are temporary structures that can't be used for other purposes and, when the epidemic is over, will probably be burned to the ground.

The challenge is figuring out when the speeches are just words intended to highlight or even invent differences for political purposes and when they genuinely signal a change in America's relationship with the world.