The purpose was to force them to return home.
Their purpose was to force HLS to shut down.
Its only purpose was to force the Fed to be more transparent and accountable to the public.
Supporters of the change said its purpose was to force bankers to spend more time and money ensuring rules are followed.
Jonathan Collegio, the communications director for American Crossroads, said part of the group's purpose was to force Democrats to devote resources to more incumbents, thinning out the money available to protect vulnerable House members.
On pondering the wing-backed armchair, so popular in 19th- and early 20th-century sitting rooms, Highmore jests that the wings might be there to stop the head of some inebriated gentleman from lolling; becoming serious, he decides that their purpose was to force the sitter into a position that suggested "moral rectitude".
"The purpose was to force people to actually talk about ideology, about which ideas Occupy would stand for, about whether there should be any ideology at all," Mr. Ackerman said, adding that many people he sees mentioning Jacobin on social media come from "Occupy-ish" circles.
One purpose of terror is to force governments into repressive measures, which alienate people and then, supposedly, generate support for causes the terrorists espouse.
What's more, he added, "The purpose of the change is to force smaller parties to merge into larger parties".
