Sentence examples for purpose to cut from inspiring English sources

It's brought into the living room for a practical purpose, to cut up some bread to help settle Abby's stomach.

Of course, all this money is flowing in various directions for a specific purpose: to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emission by 17percentt by 2020 and 83percentt by 2050.

The device was very powerful, would have been triggered remotely and was meant "for all intents and purposes to cut him in half," the investigator said.

Back then, the overriding purpose was to cut taxes and shrink the welfare state while maintaining spending on defence and law and order.

As Representative Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat for whom the act is partly named, memorably put it, "The purpose is to cut off funding to people who kill people".

The suggestion does however look a lot like a Trojan horse whose true purpose is to cut government-funded climate research, perhaps transferring some of Nasa's programs and budget to other agencies and simply scrapping the rest.

A chef's knife bag usually contains a variety of sharp, high-quality knives and specialty knives like an oyster knife and a Parmigiano knife, whose sole purpose is to cut cheese.

She chose investment over redistribution.Its main purpose is to cut the federal government's structural deficit that is, the part not related to the business cycle from an expected 2.5% of GDP this year to 0.35% by 2016, as required by a recent amendment to the constitution.

The companies -- Johnson & Johnson, Baxter International Inc., Abbott Laboratories, Medtronic Inc. and GE Medical Systems, a unit of the General Electric Company -- say the exchange's purpose is to cut hundreds of millions of dollars out of the costs that they and their customers incur while handling the drudge work of processing orders.

Progressive opponents of the Super Congress, however, argue that its very purpose is to cut entitlements, so negotiating its parliamentary outline misses the point.

Its purpose was to cut off Viet Minh supply lines into the neighboring Kingdom of Laos, a French ally, and tactically draw the Viet Minh into a major confrontation that would cripple them.