Sentence examples for purposes dead from inspiring English sources

The pilot, whose name is Colter Stevens, is, for all intents and purposes, dead.

The European Emissions Trading Scheme, which was supposed to have capped our consumption, is now, for practical purposes, dead.

As soon as something was summed up, it was to all intents and purposes dead, a sitting duck, and she could go no further with it.

It's hard not to view the track as Barlow's coded response to his years out in the cold, when his career was, to all intents and purposes, dead.

Mr Kurlack, a famous bear who, in 1990, pronounced AMD to all intents and purposes dead, was not the first to revise his views.

A combination of overfishing, climate change and pollution has meant that the River Ythan, which provided some of the key jewels used in Scotland's crown, is "to all intents and purposes dead" as a source of freshwater pearl mussels, conservationists at Scottish National Heritage (SNH) said.

With Jon Voight as her father, serving the purpose dead parents always do in action-adventure: appearing in flashbacks to advance the plot (Mitchell).

That grandly worded document served both men's political needs, but remained for practical purposes a dead letter.

"The free market for all intents and purposes is dead in America," Senator Jim Bunning, Republican of Kentucky, declared on Friday.

She was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital, where doctors informed her husband that "Marlise had lost all activity in her brain stem, and was for all purposes brain dead," according to a civil-court petition filed last week by her family.

Rock and roll, for all intents and purposes, is dead.