Sentence examples for some common purposes from inspiring English sources

The most salient change since 1982, when its soldiers were falling in such horrifying numbers at the front and the regime felt it faced an existential challenge, is that Iraq is no longer an enemy to be feared but a dependency to be managed, while Iran and America are in a relationship which combines continuing hostility with some common purposes.

Now it is apparent that Fidel Castro and Pope John Paul II sense some common purpose as well.

Confederations are voluntary associations of independent states that, to secure some common purpose, agree to certain limitations on their freedom of action and establish some joint machinery of consultation or deliberation.

Inhabitants of the pre-political state are thus capable of envisaging a possible political state, in which cooperation between families exists for some common purpose.

In such circumstances, the Tories were able to channel their evil energies towards some common purpose: dismantling the welfare state, for example.

Together these societal "earthquakes" annihilate coherence and commonality, thus undermining common purposes and consensus.

In some places, Tea Partiers and occupiers discovered common purposes.

We can truly make America great again if we band together to advance our common purposes.

According to David Lewis's influential account of convention, for instance, a convention is a regularity in the behavior of a community which is arbitrary but perpetuates itself because it serves "some sort of common purpose.

It can unite parties on at least some issues of common purpose: the health, wealth and happiness of UK citizens.

Biden's bipartisan trip of national security heavyweights in the US Senate is an important step in reestablishing some trust and common purpose in US foreign policy across party lines.