Sentence examples for purpose was to force from inspiring English sources

The purpose was to force them to return home.

Their purpose was to force HLS to shut down.

Its only purpose was to force the Fed to be more transparent and accountable to the public.

Supporters of the change said its purpose was to force bankers to spend more time and money ensuring rules are followed.

Jonathan Collegio, the communications director for American Crossroads, said part of the group's purpose was to force Democrats to devote resources to more incumbents, thinning out the money available to protect vulnerable House members.

On pondering the wing-backed armchair, so popular in 19th- and early 20th-century sitting rooms, Highmore jests that the wings might be there to stop the head of some inebriated gentleman from lolling; becoming serious, he decides that their purpose was to force the sitter into a position that suggested "moral rectitude".

"My purpose is to force people to think.

The strike's official purpose is to force a reversal of a recent decision, issued by governmental decree, to allow university presidents to decide how academic staff members divide their time between research and teaching.

The purpose of ligation was to force the lesion to assume a polypoid form with a pseudostalk.

Dr. Sorra said the doctors and unions believed that SUNY might be attributing losses from other operations to LICH, and that one purpose of the lawsuit was to force SUNY to release more detailed financial records.

But the columnist leaves out the rest of Clark's answer, in which it is explained that "the person who has to stop this is President Milosevic" and that the purpose of the air campaign was to force him to do just that.