Sentence examples for purpose to justify from inspiring English sources
This is arguably the greatest poem in the English language, though it fails in its stated purpose to "justify the ways of God to man".
University leaders, he observes, have embraced a market model of university purpose to justify themselves to the society that supports them with philanthropy and tax dollars.
Chinese officials commandeered the war on terror for its own cynical purposes to justify harsh measures against the Uighurs".
How Beijing feels about this should not be our concern, nor do we have any business attempting to influence how the people of Taiwan vote.ARTHUR WALDRON Professor of international relations University of Pennsylvania PhiladelphiaCompanies' social purposesSchumpeter (March 21st) is correct to argue that companies need not have lofty purposes to justify their existence.
One historian, Leonard Thompson, has said the mythology came to serve a political purpose, used to justify the racial oppression of apartheid as God's will.
Russia's own role in fixing the terms of German unification was now erased from memory, replaced by a mythical sequence of unmediated aggressions whose ultimate purpose was to justify current Russian policy in the Ukraine.
Sometimes, this balanced book suggests, the purpose is to justify more government regulation and control over our lives.
This disinformation serves a specific purpose, usually to justify or forward a self-serving set of interests or goals.
Investigators might want to keep data longer than a phone or Internet company would, so they can search through years of a suspect's records, but that's too slim a purpose by itself to justify a program of this depth.
The opinion on Dec. 3 by the New York Supreme Court's appellate division, which found there was no civic or public purpose or blight to justify condemning Tuck-It-Away's buildings for the university's new campus, has unnerved public officials and developers.
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