Sentence examples for purposes proved from inspiring English sources

The Hindus, whom they hoped to use for local trade purposes, proved unenterprising and had caste restrictions regarding sea voyages.

The paradox of such a mass-market machine serving elite purposes proved irresistible to many artists and the Polaroid snapshot became a cliché in high art circles, whose diaristic potential continues to lure chroniclers of fashion like Dash Snow.

It is the nature of bureaucratic creep: powers for one purpose prove handy for another.

This lack of urgency and purpose proves toughest on Ms. Witherspoon, who, partly because she's the strongest or most obviously determined actor in this little group, seems incapable of goofing her way through the movie.

Artificial neural networks (ANN) were here used for this purpose, proving able to precisely represent conventional heat transfer surfaces.

This backward approach for refining a series of highly discriminative gene clusters for classification purpose proves to be very consistent and stable when applied to various types of training samples.

However, for classification purposes, MST proved enjoying as a good classification accuracy as that provided by CAT, with more efficient item bank usage.

The ion implantation for both academic and applied purposes has proved to be successful in improving hardness and wear resistance as well as prolonging lifetime of the ion-beam-processed tools.

Despite considerable efforts over a number of years, the specific targeting and inactivation of RAS proteins for therapeutic purposes has proved largely unsuccessful.

We are aware of the possibility of diagnostic errors, upcoding and unbundling of codes associated with the use of a reimbursement-administrative database, originally created not for research purposes, but proved to be an important source for medical studies in Estonia.

Simenon had a matchless ability to take the first narrative step, without fuss, and then to forge ahead, as though beckoned by the destiny of his characters, and that untiring purpose has proved invaluable to the movies.