Sentence examples for purpose for something from inspiring English sources

The Bush administration's behavior was disturbing, and so is the Obama administration's forceful defense of this outrageous practice of using a statute intended for one purpose for something very different.

A lot of people locally don't understand but I think people will come to see why reusing a building that was made for one purpose for something new can be interesting.

"There are data brokers whose marketing lists may not cross the line into credit reports but come very close," said Julie Brill, a member of the F.T.C. "The question is whether the lists are being used for marketing purposes or for something very close to credit purposes".

Mostly, it doesn't matter when biologists speak figuratively of design in nature, or the "purpose" for which something evolved.

Getting to your why gives you purpose for doing something instead of just doing it "just because".

There is something very Avaazian about the crisistunity, I come to think, in that it's borrowed something slick and witty from popular culture and re-purposed it for something which used to be called the Greater Good.

"Ninety percent of the interesting portraiture that has been done is done by people who may know each other but usually are meeting for the first time and come together for the purpose of something commercial," he said.

All he needs is a purpose to fight for something.

But if you are looking for a more unstructured, all-purpose bag, go for something a little floppier.

Reading itself was not done for the purposes of something as perversely theoretical as enlarging one's soul; it needed to have some tangible function in the here and now: "Democratic nations may amuse themselves for a while with considering the productions of nature; but they are excited in reality only by a survey of themselves".

Tate Britain, the original Tate, was robbed of its history and purpose to make way for something more glamorous.