Sentence examples for purpose of the watch from inspiring English sources

The primary purpose of the watch and ward was to guard the city gates at night.

Reporter talked to Harry Bondy, leader of the NYC team, who explained that the purpose of the watch was to pinpoint the Object in relation to familiar stars & to their point of observation, all to a fraction of a second & then to telephone the results to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory people in Cambridge, Mass., where the Object's orbit is computed.

The purpose of conducting the watching brief is to keep up-to-date on issues of relevance to the CCB including legal appeals and policy changes.

It doesn't conform to the traditional expectation that crime is a Rubik's cube, plot-driven thing in which the purpose of watching the drama is to see who did it.

The assistant referee positions himself on the goal line with the sole purpose of watching the keeper.

Even some of the sample choices — recent tracks by the house music veterans Cassius and the dubstep comer Flux Pavilion — are songs probably heard overseas and quickly tweaked for the purposes of "Watch the Throne," but it also features Frank Ocean, the rising R&B star.

The purpose of Ice Watch London, a collaboration with award-winning Greenlandic geologist Minik Rosing, is to bring the effects of climate change closer to home, putting people in direct contact with its effects so that they can feel – and even sniff and lick – the ice as it slowly melts away.

The purpose of the trip was to watch the World/Inferno Friendship Society, a gypsy-punk anarchist collective, play an annual Halloween concert.

Mr. A. L. Johnson presided over the gathering, which was held in the Reading Room, and it was unanimously resolved to form an association for the purpose of watching over the commercial interests of Singapore, and that all merchants, agents, shipowners, and others interested in the trade of the place should be eligible as members.

Younger generations may graduate college and purchase a TV solely for the purpose of binge watching entire seasons of series.

I recorded some of these magical moments (for the sole purpose of re-watching them for eternity, obviously): .