Sentence examples for purposes apart from inspiring English sources

Why not think about some of the real problems in the world, given that we women in the UK now live 'gilded lives' and, to all intents and purposes (apart from a few little ifs and buts) have achieved equality?

"China's work on the [Spratly] islands mostly serves civil purposes apart from meeting the needs of military defence.

Some of rules and conditions regarding TOLs are, it cannot be transferred or taken over, terminate when its holders die, can be canceled at any time without any compensation when a breach of the provision is made, and it cannot be used for other purposes apart from what has been stated in the agreement.

Even though Congress set up a framework for the use of the metric system in the nineteenth century, the United States continues to use US customary units, based on English measure passed by parliament under the reign of Queen Anne in 1706, for most purposes apart from science and medicine, though as a result of their Spanish heritage, metric units are used widely in Puerto Rico.

There are also other control charts which are used for various purposes apart from these.

MIP-1a has not been widely used for diagnostic purposes, apart from malignant gliomas, in which MIP-1a levels provided 100%% sensitivity and 88%% specificity for the diagnosis of this tumor type versus controls [ 51].

Just a no-work job, prosecutors say, that didn't have much purpose apart from boosting his pension and securing more state money for his employer.

More important, in a culture in which sex is increasingly divorced from procreation, it gives copulation a new kind of purpose, apart from pleasure.

Sophisticated people attacked it for lacking a coherent point of view, a governing aesthetic or any larger sense of purpose apart from Robert Moses' desire to create what would later become the world's most hideous park.

According to Jack A. Goldstone, a professor at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University in Virginia, the defining characteristic of a sultanistic regime is that it has no purpose apart from maintaining the leader's personal authority.

The financial crisis and Great Recession have sapped support for multi-lateralism; DfID disburses its growing budget without any sense of strategic purpose apart from to encourage the role of the private sector; and while the Conservatives have bought into the 0.7% aid pledge, the commitment is only skin deep.