Sentence examples for purposive manner from inspiring English sources
Participants were selected in a purposive manner.
Practices were identified by local divisions of general practice [ 6] in a purposive manner to identify practices expanding the nurse role.
As the greatest strength of the material observed in this study likely lies in its spontaneity, it represents a phenomenon that may be difficult to reproduce in a purposive manner.
To further understand the perception of the arts-making workshop in a more in-depth manner, purposive sampling was used to select reflective essays which could best serve to illustrate the process of creating arts regarding pain and suffering [ 28].
Of course without the requirement of necessity it raises the intelligent child's question 'Who made God?' Still, this might be regarded as inevitable but excusable in an a posteriori argument in which the hypothesis of a purposive creator is put forward and claimed to be justified much in the manner of any scientific hypothesis.
Fermat's principle is "purposive, almost teleological".
What is required is purposive intervention – and it precisely this that is lacking.
Later reports in The Times made clear that purposive bombing was involved.
His manner was disconcerting.
His cheery manner subsided.
