"I can only conclude that you are personally content with what is, in effect, a purposeful effort to keep documents from Congress, the Department of Justice and various independent counsels," Mr. Burton, chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, wrote last week to Beth Nolan, the White House counsel.
To maximize profit and thus dividend income -- the purposeful function of business -- companies strive to keep labor input and other costs at a minimum.
You can pull off worn, rugged boots with this outfit to push it closer to '90s grunge, but if you want to keep your ensemble looking purposeful and stylish by today's standards, a pair of polished black combat boots will work better.
At other times, while listening to such stories, Mr. Ouramdane simply strides, marches, as if turning his inability to keep still into some kind of purposeful motion.
When extending the decision model, one has to keep in mind that models are purposeful abstractions that need not necessarily capture all the complexity of the real world.
When extending the planning model, however, one has to keep in mind that models are purposeful abstractions from the real world that need not necessarily capture all the complexity of the real world.
A friend of mine once faxed me Bullshit Bingo, rows and columns of words they use to keep our children out of their schools – Access Audit, purposeful delay, IEPs, learning difficulty.
This does seem like willful and purposeful negligence in the execution of his duties to me — like a doctor who fails to keep up with standards of care.
The critics have denounced the effort to keep the list secret, the touch-screen problems and other troubles as purposeful efforts by Florida's Republican leadership to give President Bush an advantage here.
What comes off as a purposeful tentativeness on the album here felt like disorganization, the words bubbling with ferocity and the arrangements scrambling just to keep up.
