Sentence examples for purpose to prove from inspiring English sources

"I feel an extra purpose to prove people wrong, to make them regret not giving me that opportunity seven years ago," he said.

When it was first published, The Last Days of Hitler had a quasi-propaganda purpose: to prove, definitively, by brilliant detective work, that the Hitler was not only dead, but had killed himself.

Assign students within each group one of the following roles: -Speaker(s), opening statement: introduces the group's argument with a clear statement of purpose ("to prove" or "to refute"); offers at least two persuasive points to support the statement of purpose; and briefly sums up (2 minutes).

In his vicious critique of the Law and Order episode, Mr. O'Reilly showed many video clips from his previous shows with the purpose to prove that he always had had compassion for the situation of illegal immigrants.

Its purpose was to prove the feasibility of government patronage.

Nine years ago, when Alex Salmond led the party into government for the first time, as a minority, the purpose was to prove that the nationalists were an effective alternative to Labour.

And the Oedipus Mr. Rimer creates properly seems a stubborn hothead, but because of a flawed character rather than a surpassing intellectual passion; his overriding purpose is to prove himself worthy of the throne and of Jocasta.

Citing this provision last year, the federal appeals court in Atlanta held that it "provides a complete defense" because a lawyer giving "bona fide legal representation" cannot have the improper purpose necessary to prove obstruction of justice.

Smith's high sense of moral and artistic purpose began to prove incompatible with the demands of a major, popular magazine, and so he left Life in 1955 to pursue freelance work.

The Today presenter, collecting his second industry prize in barely a week after his Sony Radio Academy awards triumph, recalled that when he started on the Radio 4 breakfast show he was told its purpose was to "prove to the nation that you don't need to read newspapers".

"To me, these spectacles are filled with great beauty," Paul Bowles, the expatriate American composer and writer who spent much of his life in Morocco, wrote of often bloody ceremonies that most Westerners would find gruesome to behold, "because their obvious purpose is to prove the power of the spirit over the flesh".