But my ears pricked up when I heard Mr. Kinnear's Hamlet mangle them, for strategic purposes, in speaking to David Calder's Polonius.
The standard Best Evidence in Medical Education coding sheet [ 14] was modified to focus on relevant parameters (e.g. country, subject, purpose of speaking up, measurement, study design) and used to abstract the information.
My purpose in speaking at these congressional hearings is to ensure that Agriculture Department budget allocations now perversely subsidizing rice farmers in Louisiana are eventually redirected to this magazine.
Here the purpose of speaking is not so much to get a point across, more to find out what others think about it.
He said the Opsec group had a broader purpose in speaking out against leaks and the politicization of the Navy SEALs and the C.I.A., and it hoped to keep working after the election.
But Mr. Sosdian had "complete comfort and peace" with his decision, adding that "the sole purpose" of speaking with another doctor "was to talk me into having aggressive treatment".
A decade-long project, the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE), has found that 80% of the human genome serves some purpose, biochemically speaking.
"People use jargon because they want to sound smart and credible when in fact they sound profoundly dim-witted and typically can't be understood, which defeats the purpose of speaking in the first place," says Karen Friedman, author of Shut Up and Say Something: Business Communication Strategies to Overcome Challenges and Influence Listeners (Praeger, 2010).
Her purpose in speaking out, Rowe told interviewer Kate Dalley, was "to wake more of us up.
But in January, he wrote, the convicted killer was moved "for the sole purpose" of speaking at the private event.
