Sentence examples for purposes means from inspiring English sources

If online oversharing is a public health problem, then the state's decision to harness it for its own purposes means that huge, powerful forces within government will come to depend on oversharing.

Joining Al Qaeda with knowledge of its purposes means that one has joined in a conspiracy to attack civilian targets and to make war illegally on the United States, for that is the raison d'être of Al Qaeda.

Here's how Twitter defines "defensive purposes": "Defensive purposes means that you can defend yourself should another party try to initiate patent litigation against you or your customers or users.

The second roadblock concerns the integration into the modeling workflows, that, for engineering purposes, means providing a precise and controlled way of defining and editing models possibly composed of different geometric representations.

"Political purposes" means winning elections.

While the definition of fashion is up to different interpretations, appropriating cultural and religious symbols for trend purposes means stepping into dangerous terrain, and is, clearly, unacceptable as a practice.

Newton was a gifted organiser but his time spent reorienting the activities of various street gangs to more socially useful purposes meant that some of their attitudes – especially towards women and guns – rubbed off on him.

Each batch experiment was conducted in triplicate and for data analysis purposes mean values were used.

The terms liberal and progressive, for those purposes, mean the same thing: An overall position standing a good bit left of the perceived political center.

For descriptive purposes, mean values are presented using untransformed and unadjusted values.

For descriptive purposes, mean values are presented on untransformed and unadjusted variables.