Sentence examples for serves a certain purpose from inspiring English sources

The exercise of talking to Mr. Assad serves a certain purpose, since it allows a skilled diplomat such as Mr. Burns to lay out the administration's incentives for changed behavior as well as its red lines, and it might make Iran's paranoid leaders nervous.

We humans have the distinct ability to express ourselves in many ways and each expression serves a certain purpose.

If it [tribal medicine] is as efficacious, it serves a certain purpose and it solves the problem of the people and in today's world that it gives livelihood to persons I think there is every reason why we should support it.

"If you've going to do a large-scale universal currency, you need to have a certain level of scale, and it needs to be serving a certain purpose.

That may serve a certain purpose.

Daly says MTV has a "tough task" ahead of it, relaunching a show that served a certain purpose 20 years ago ― a purpose that, he says, no longer exists.

— I can't wait for the Silver Lake hipsters to get hold of this one: Apparently the old practice of maintaining an ornamental hermit — not arm candy, but a person who serves a certain intellectually decorative purpose — is back (sort of).

But among a certain species of jumping spider, UVB serves a useful purpose, researchers from the National University of Singapore say.

With a narrator like Mira, a certain bias in the telling is not merely forgivable; it serves a clear purpose.

Today, it serves a similar purpose.

It also serves a pragmatic purpose.