As a result, the sample is not representative of any general population, but is selected for the purpose of generating "theoretical jumping off points" (Thompson, 1999).
The purpose of generating a genetically modified organism (GMOs) is, like breeding in general, to provide the new variety with novel features, and for introduced traits to be inheritable, the nuclear or organellar genome has to be altered.
Pseudo-event, an event produced by a communicator with the sole purpose of generating media attention and publicity.
Similarly, pro-lifers oppose human cloning, even for the therapeutic purpose of generating stem cells, on the grounds that no one has the right to play God.
This vast contraption -- comprising an In-Sink-Erator, a computer-controlled reactor, peristaltic pumps, an intricate electrical system and glass jars containing acids and micro-organisms -- ingested and digested food with the sole purpose of generating feces.
The critique claimed that the Neurometrix system produced "results that may be misleading or even wrong" and suggested doctors "are likely to use it excessively for the sole purpose of generating income".
They want to know about personal dramas, lavish purchases, anything that can lure their portfolio managers away from the single purpose of generating alpha, or returns in excess of the market.
I offer this comment solely for the purpose of generating some thought/discussion around an issue that I think is more important than simply separating news and opinion in the Sunday Review.
Housing advocates led by Mr. White, who is on leave as executive director of the Lakeside Community Development Corporation, want to create a TIF district with the sole purpose of generating funds to preserve rental housing.
Enterprising players in South Korea and China have been running "item factories," where hundreds of computers are programmed to play the games without human users for the sole purpose of generating items for cash.
The 8,000 present in a setting that might have been constructed for the very purpose of generating hostile decibels received the winner with the sort of respect normally reserved for one of their own – especially this one of their own.
