Major General Yossi Peled, one of the commanders who drafted the directive, told Haaretz that its purpose was to assert how far the military could go to prevent abductions.
Thus was born the Ninth Amendment, whose purpose was to assert the principle that the enumerated rights are not exhaustive and final and that the listing of certain rights does not deny or disparage the existence of other rights.
"Human groupings have one main purpose," he wrote, "to assert everyone's right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in his or her own way … The only true and lasting meaning of the struggle for life lies in the individual, in his modest peculiarities and his right to these peculiarities".
Hence, nicotine is a drug; the cigarette that delivers nicotine to the body is a device; and the F.D.C.A.'s language, read in light of its basic purpose, permits the F.D.A. to assert the disease-preventing jurisdiction that the agency now claims.
Anyone who recalls the Jim Crow society of the American South in the 1950s knows the real purpose of such actions: to assert and make visible by force the superiority of one caste of people over another, and to drive the inferior people from places of value.
The composers became known collectively as The Five, and their purpose was seen to be to assert the musical independence of Russia from the West.
Like the Populists, who flourished at the end of the 19th century, the progressives invoked the Preamble to the Constitution to assert their purpose of making "We the People"—the whole people effective in strengthening the federal government's authority to regulate society and the economy.
The purpose of this paper is not to assert that either local or nonlocal genotypes are generally superior, but rather to simply suggest that circumstances exist under which the use of nonlocal genotypes may be a viable restoration option.
Rob Goldman, Facebook's vice-president for ads, took to Twitter to assert that the primary purpose of Russian meddling was to "divide America," not to influence the election.
There is a purpose behind Khamenei's increasing public attempts to assert his self-proclaimed religious authority.
