Sentence examples for the immediate purpose from inspiring English sources

The immediate purpose of sex, as everyone knows, is to provide new combinations of well-tested genes.

This dispersal of Ginsberg's possessions was in the spirit of his Buddhist practice, but the immediate purpose of the sale was to help the Allen Ginsberg Trust recover from a mammoth tax hit.

The Bank of England was incorporated by act of Parliament in 1694 with the immediate purpose of raising funds to allow the English government to wage war against France in the Low Countries (see Grand Alliance, War of the).

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, rejected that argument, ruling that the immediate purpose of Mr. Kidd's arrest was not prosecution but detention and investigation.

In 1642 a farsighted governor general of the Dutch East India Company, Anthony van Diemen, sent out the Dutch navigator Abel Tasman for the immediate purpose of making an exploratory voyage, but with the ultimate aim of developing trade.

Since the immediate purpose is to pump-prime the economy, the emphasis will be on dispensing the money rather than on the return on investment.Kenneth Cukier: Tokyo correspondent, The Economist.

The Library's scans serve not only the immediate purposes of the Princeton University Digital Library.

Even if AT&T team members don't know all of the immediate purposes of a particular experiment or application, says Mazin, it still gets put into the playbook with the long-term view of better understanding these applications over time as others use the technology in a similar way.

In either event, the animal has chosen to remove himself from the water with a purpose, and that immediate purpose is to get dry and get warm.

"The most immediate purpose for buying the mine was to preserve the stability of the Navajo Nation's economy," Gundersen says.

The most immediate purpose of population genetics is to predict allele frequency change.