Sentence examples for the only purposeful from inspiring English sources

The federal government is the only purposeful force — I assume wars are not purposeful — that can reduce the numbers of the poor and make their lives more bearable.

Libraries call their bookshelves "stacks," but the only purposeful book stacking most of us do is on our coffee tables, where books are shuffled on and off like favorite playlists on an iPod.

"You can't really fine him - it is almost irrelevant to fine him - so the only purposeful way to bring him to book is to say 'you will stand out one race'".

"The only purposeful way to bring him to book is to say 'you will stand out one race'," Watson told BBC Radio 4. "I know that if other drivers in other teams disobeyed a team order they would be suspended or even fired".

The only purposeful departure from the new-user approach we undertook for our primary analysis was including subjects who had had an episode of hospitalized hypoglycemia in the 1 year prior to study entry (i.e., some subjects had a prevalent exposure).

The resulting competency gap entails that a shaping of work processes is only purposeful if guided by the "Internet of Things".

Justice Kennedy also declared — repeatedly — that only purposeful violations of the prohibition can be prosecuted.

Also, according to their teleological reasoning and the closely related intentionality constraints, children have the inclination to think that "events are not only purposeful but that may be caused by an intentional agent" (Sinatra et al. 2008, p.191).

Teleological reasoning is closely related to the intentionality constraint the tendency to assume that events are not only purposeful but that they may be caused by an intentional agent, an agent with a "mind of its own".

This "results test" contrasts with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, both of which directly prohibit only purposeful discrimination.

In 1982, Congress amended the Act to overturn the Supreme Court case Mobile v. Bolden (1980), which held that the general prohibition of voting discrimination prescribed in Section 2 prohibited only purposeful discrimination.