This documentary made Weiner a minor legend, and when Donald Trump's campaign did its best to publicise Clinton's emails part of the purpose was plainly to bring Weiner and his errant weiner into the public domain, however indirectly.
But most of all, he would change the law to assert a general avoidance principle, to stop rules being wriggled around, but let HMRC strike down any activity whose purpose is plainly to avoid tax.
(Offensive? Sure, and plainly on purpose, but smoothly at one with Salle's attitude toward all his subjects).
As the forensic analysis of the Lords constitution committee shows, the bill that emerged from the chaos of spring tinkers with the foundational political responsibility of the NHS – and not for any purpose that has been plainly stated.
More important, this prosecution is driven by the same plainly improper purpose that drove the one directed at Aaron Swartz and so many others: the desire to exploit the power of criminal law to deter and severely punish anyone who meaningfully challenges the government's power to control the flow of information on the internet and conceal its vital actions.
There is one plainly valid purpose that the House, and only the House, could raise, but has not to date.
It is ironic that industries whose front groups accuse us of bullying are themselves pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into elections, for the plainly avowed purpose of threatening and punishing elected officials who dare to cross them and acknowledge the dangers of carbon-driven climate change.
If much of the recent commentary is of any indication, the appearance of Laverne Cox on the cover of the iconic TIME magazine has fulfilled the purposes which it was plainly intended to achieve.
However, our findings certainly strengthen the legitimacy of applying the ICD system plainly for the purposes of establishing a resource consumption index to approximate severity.
The purpose of the thin idea is plainly political.
