Sentence examples for purposes of self from inspiring English sources

This law authorises a physician to prescribe a lethal dosage of drug, usually a short acting barbiturate, to a competent, requesting patient for the purposes of self administration.

This is not Putin's Russia, where a megalomaniac gangster who has hijacked a state has spent fifty billion dollars for the purposes of self-aggrandizement.

He views it as a book marked by the longing for "good old aristocratic times," written for purposes of self-justification and "shaped as much by personal neurosis as by logic and observation".

Each family was classified according to hereditary status the chief categories being civilian, military, and artisan and neighbouring families of the same category were organized into groups for purposes of self-government and mutual help and surveillance.

As the Guardian's Alex von Tunzelman wrote last year, it's not the first time Kyle has been accused of manipulating the truth for the purposes of self-aggrandisement: "In 2014, wrestler-turned-politician Jesse Ventura won more than $1.8m£1.2m2m) in damages from the former Navy Seal's estate after a jury decided he had been defamed.

Like the "most wanted" Iraqi criminals whose photos were distributed on playing cards, Bin Laden is identified as the world "public enemy number one", a term created in the 1930s for purposes of self-promotion by the FBI's J Edgar Hoover.

Nin manipulated her voluminous diary for the purposes of self-promotion, used her talent for seduction to compensate for her limited writing talent and then took refuge in "the biggest lie of all, the one she used to deceive herself and to excuse herself: that she was an artist, and so a being of a separate order".

TIMOTHY VILLAREAL Miami, July 21 , 2012To the Editor: In light of the tragic mass killing in Aurora, I think it's time for the people of the United States to seriously consider repealing the Second Amendment and replacing it with the following: "Individual United States citizens have the right to bear arms for the purposes of self-defense, hunting or recreation.

The ability of animals to use a mirror, either as a problem-solving tool or for the purposes of self-recognition, has been tested in several species.

He says that eliminating enemies for purposes of self-defense is justified.

It's true there is an offensive or "violent" form of jihad, but it's for the purposes of self-defense.