Sentence examples for purpose of names from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, Xunzi does not explain how exactly a confusion about the purpose of names leads to these sayings, or what constitutes the resulting disorder of names.

Xunzi associates a failure to understand the purpose of names with sayings that "are confused about using names and thereby bring disorder to names"; the examples he lists are "being insulted is not disgraceful," "sages do not care for themselves," and "killing thieves is not killing people".

"The purpose of naming the names today was to put the international spotlight on them," Mr. Bolton said.

He was one of a group of 15 or 20 record executives, journalists and others who met in a London pub in 1987 for the purpose of naming a musical form whose adherents range from a Belgian brass band in Brazil to a Toronto-based former child soldier from Somalia turned rapper.

The purpose of such names, which are called apotropaic names, is to make the child undesirable to demons.

The first issue he raises is the purpose of having names.

Under the Kemalist oriented government, specialized governmental commissions were created for the purpose of changing names.

At first, when the Ministry of Defence took its despicable decision to name him (and let's not split hairs: he was named), the briefing - and, indeed, entire purpose of the naming - was to expose him as a mere scientist, an office junior, with little or no involvement in the drawing up of those dossiers.

On the first day of this large course, I explained the dual purpose of these name cards.

But the continuity of purpose, and even of names, was there.

He drops names of Washington contacts cultivated largely for the purpose of dropping their names.