Sentence examples for purpose to prolong from inspiring English sources

No; with the House vote certain for Bush, it serves nobody's purpose to prolong the interregnum.

Recently a homodimer of annexin A5 (diannexin) was constructed with the purpose to prolong the blood circulation time and, hence, to increase therapeutic efficacy of annexin A5 to attenuate ischemia/reperfusion induced injury of organs [ 101].

Indeed, its express purpose is to prolong it on behalf of a loose coalition of insurgents, some of whom are affiliated with our sworn enemies and who we can only pray will not indirectly acquire the arms we are providing.

Furthermore, for aesthetics purposes and/or to prolong their expected or planned service life, they are painted designing each paint system as a function of the service conditions to which they will be subject to.

"Be hard to get" and "keep him jealous" differed from the games played in the courts of medieval Europe only in that their purpose was not to prolong passion outside respectable marriage, "but to frustrate the crazed petitioner into making a proposal of respectable marriage".

Can we develop biological filter to fulfil certain purposes, for example, to prolong the life span of a leaf?

They use software to prolong battery life.

The purpose of screening is to prolong survival, but length of survival from diagnosis of breast cancer to death cannot be used as an end point in the RCTs, because the cancers diagnosed by screening are diagnosed earlier than those diagnosed without screening.

Substances differed significantly in the purposes for which each was deployed (e.g. 28.6% of alcohol users use it to facilitate sexual encounters; 26.2% of cocaine users use it to prolong sex) with user demographics also relating to levels of sexual use (e.g. higher levels of: ecstasy use by males to prolong sex; cocaine use by single individuals to enhance sensation and arousal).

As the main purpose of the treatment is to prolong life and mitigate symptoms, the main primary end-points of OS and PFS are used.

Sample size was calculated considering the primary purpose of this trial, which is to prolong patients' residence at home and to increase the number of patients who die at home by 15 - 20%.