The new group will have the appearance of purposefulness, including a secretariat in Ecuador and a parliament in Bolivia, but not much more than that.The leaders also discussed setting up a South American Defence Council as a forum to talk about defence and security.
These individuals appreciated the complexity and apparent purposefulness of the actions of animals, and they knew that understanding behaviour demands long-term observations of animals in their natural settings.
The existence of a kind of purposefulness in the eye does not license one to talk of the eye's designer, as the purposefulness of a serrated edge allows one to talk of the designer of a knife.
He is revered among his clerical colleagues for his planning, his purposefulness and his strict avoidance of the sort of loose talk that undermined predecessors at Lambeth Palace.
Although many scientists have agreed that Cummins has correctly described the main task of morphology to identify the individual functions or purposes of the parts of biological systems—his view does not seem to explicate teleology in the biological sense, since it does not treat purposefulness as adaptedness, as something that results from a process of selection.
His slight figure and youthful purposefulness give him the air of a clever, unsullied young cousin of Clinton's, visiting from across the water to learn more about the venal perils of bigtime power.
To say as much, though, gives the books a chronicler's purposefulness that their sentences belie.
I wanted to do it partly to see if it could be done (as an episode of what would be called on ESPN "X-treme Localism"), partly as a way of exploring the economics and aesthetics of localism more generally, and partly to see if perhaps the implicit anti-urban prejudices lurking in the localist movement could be leached away by some city-bred purposefulness.
His subdued, affable purposefulness seems to extend as far as he extends.
When she's not boxing, Shields has the open, inquisitive face of a child, but in the ring it hardens into terrifying purposefulness.
I enlisted Gabrielle Langholtz, of the Greenmarket, a young woman of awe-inspiring purposefulness, and she at once came up with a list of possibilities: vegetables from farms in Staten Island and Brooklyn, honey from rooftops, and eggs seemed plausible, too.
