Sentence examples for purpose apart from inspiring English sources

Just a no-work job, prosecutors say, that didn't have much purpose apart from boosting his pension and securing more state money for his employer.

More important, in a culture in which sex is increasingly divorced from procreation, it gives copulation a new kind of purpose, apart from pleasure.

Sophisticated people attacked it for lacking a coherent point of view, a governing aesthetic or any larger sense of purpose apart from Robert Moses' desire to create what would later become the world's most hideous park.

According to Jack A. Goldstone, a professor at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University in Virginia, the defining characteristic of a sultanistic regime is that it has no purpose apart from maintaining the leader's personal authority.

The financial crisis and Great Recession have sapped support for multi-lateralism; DfID disburses its growing budget without any sense of strategic purpose apart from to encourage the role of the private sector; and while the Conservatives have bought into the 0.7% aid pledge, the commitment is only skin deep.

For this purpose, apart from the core sample (representative sample of people between 10 and 65 years old), we also use the youth-boost sample (only young people between 10 and 25 years old) and the ethnic-boost sample (only non-white individuals between 10 and 65 years old).

Why not think about some of the real problems in the world, given that we women in the UK now live 'gilded lives' and, to all intents and purposes (apart from a few little ifs and buts) have achieved equality?

"China's work on the [Spratly] islands mostly serves civil purposes apart from meeting the needs of military defence.

Some of rules and conditions regarding TOLs are, it cannot be transferred or taken over, terminate when its holders die, can be canceled at any time without any compensation when a breach of the provision is made, and it cannot be used for other purposes apart from what has been stated in the agreement.

Even though Congress set up a framework for the use of the metric system in the nineteenth century, the United States continues to use US customary units, based on English measure passed by parliament under the reign of Queen Anne in 1706, for most purposes apart from science and medicine, though as a result of their Spanish heritage, metric units are used widely in Puerto Rico.

There are also other control charts which are used for various purposes apart from these.