Sentence examples for purpose were to from inspiring English sources

And if the company's ulterior purpose were to generate commercial good will, I'd happily patronize it.

Some people condemn or commend even memoirs and novels as though their purpose were to instruct or offer models.

The exhibition reads as though its real purpose were to watch the reactions of viewers, as though this were mainly an exhibition about the act of exhibiting.

But he would support armed intervention in Syria only if the purpose were to oust Mr Assad, who has killed so many of his own people.

Strangelove' would be a silly, ineffective picture if its purpose were to ridicule the characters of our military and political leaders by showing them as clownish monsters — stupid, psychotic, obsessed".

The Nobel Prize in Literature often acts like a lesser wing of the Peace Prize, as though art's primary purpose were to grapple with injustice or put a human face on suffering.

The real purpose is to cripple government.

Our purpose is to look inward.

Their main purpose is to make money.

Its purpose is to humiliate time".

"The purpose was to shame.