Sentence examples for purposive change from inspiring English sources

Land reform, a purposive change in the way in which agricultural land is held or owned, the methods of cultivation that are employed, or the relation of agriculture to the rest of the economy.

We made one purposive change to the random selection, in the central developmental region of the Hill division, replacing Sidhuli by Ramechap because we needed one more cluster above 2,000 m. Figure 1 Flow chart of sites selection of the study.

Health reform is "sustained, purposive change to improve the efficiency, equity, and effectiveness of the health sector with the goal of improving health status, obtaining greater equity, and obtaining greater cost-effectiveness for services provided" [ 1].

That new O.E.D. began in 2000 with the letter M, and, as of September 2007, reached the word purposive, each successive change made available for the dictionary's online subscribers.

The first of these is to set out emerging, and in our view, convincing evidence, that large world cities have political aspirations to develop purposive and managed change in the socio-technical organisation of infrastructure networks that can be characterised as 'systemic' transitions.

We needn't evaluate a pattern change, a purposive pattern change, or a taking to identify them.

This new trend of purposive experimentation in climate change governance in cities in Asia, could be associated with new private-led forms of urbanism in emerging economies or with different cultural approaches to managing climate change.

The final third order concept was developed around empowerment: the willingness and ability of people with diabetes to self-manage in order to achieve purposive and meaningful behavior change strategies.

Improvement (defined broadly as purposive efforts to secure positive change) has become an increasingly important activity and field of inquiry within healthcare.

We used purposive sampling to explore the organizational changes at the hospital [ 36].

Consequently, current malicious nodes have changed conventional pure attack modes into purposive strategic attack modes [13], such as selective forwarding attack, selfish packet dropping attack, etc.