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Put another way, are Pine and Roper mutually aware of their purposes from the very start?

Some animals were domesticated for utilitarian purposes from the very beginning.

In e-mail distributed on Capitol Hill earlier this month, Mrs. Thomas solicited resumes "for transition purposes" from the government oversight committees of Congress.

According to the atomic energy agency, radioactive materials that could be used in a dirty bomb are widely used throughout the world for a variety of purposes, from the treatment of illnesses to irradiating food.

It's that any hope of separating authentic ideals and underlying purposes from the way people actually do things--of putting angels on one side and the bullshit on another--is doomed.

Translations of lives of the saints and apostles and accounts of the Holy Virgin testify to the skill of Icelandic prose writers in handling the vernacular for narrative purposes from the 12th century onward.

The items contained within them serve a variety of purposes, from increasing the range of the die and thus movement, to deducting ten coins from an opponent.

The cult of the gods continues to serve a variety of purposes, from comforting the afflicted to bolstering the power of corrupt leaders.

The universities use the money for many purposes, from expanding the minority "pipeline" by means of innovative outreach programs to supporting minority graduate students.

He had a grant for the purpose, from the Guggenheim Foundation.

Other companies found a purpose from the first moments of the tragedy.