Sentence examples for the chief purpose from inspiring English sources

He said the chief purpose of the Society is to improve analytic techniques.

Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars.

The chief purpose of nuclear weapons is to terrorize: "mutual deterrence" is simply a euphemism for mutual terror.

The chief purpose of computers at such companies is to help people communicate knowledge, not to store it.

The chief purpose of embalming is rather to give the body a lifelike appearance during the days in which it is being viewed by mourners.

To the evangelical experts profiled in this book, the chief purpose of science or historical research is not to expand human understanding, but to elucidate God's will.

Furthermore, one of the chief purposes of the Act, which was itself first passed in war time, was to stimulate action to protect the government against war frauds.

The chief purposes of this study are to obtain precise values of the system parameters at the transition to instability with specified uncertainties and to determine how well the experimental results can be explained with existing theory.

The chief purposes of the bill will be to establish an average work week of thirty-five to forty hours, with a minimum wage of 40 cents an hour of $16 a week.

The central purpose, or, at least, one of the chief purposes in considering and studying fractional calculus, is the circumstance that fractional calculus appears to be fairly significant in the investigation of some problems which arise in fractal space-time physics.

Finally, I think Barenblatt's conviction violates the Constitution because the chief aim, purpose and practice of the House Un-American astivities Committee, as disclosed by its many reports, is to try witnesses and punish them because they are or have been Communists or because they refuse to admit or deny Communist affiliations.