Sentence examples for the purpose at hand from inspiring English sources

For the purpose at hand -- determining whether the authors' copyrights have been infringed -- an analogy to an imaginary library may be instructive.

But the ceremony he emceed was at times so intent on putting on a rousing show that it lost sight of the purpose at hand — namely handing out awards.

The tactics adopted by each separate army on each separate occasion depend on such circumstances as terrain, weather, organization, weaponry, and the enemy in addition to the purpose at hand.

Therefore special care should be taken to suit the method to the purpose at hand.

This rendered the prepared material very promising for the purpose at hand.

The answer often depends on the context and the purpose at hand.

While by most accounts Davis and Ball weren't particularly simpatico — the former reliably light and amusing, tactful and considerate, the latter sometimes harsh and often humorless — they were for the purposes at hand the perfect complement to each other.

And that's all we know of Shawn Edwards, of Fox-TV, who thought it was "the comedy hit of the summer!" For the purposes at hand — the purposes of promotion — all movie reviewers are fictional, or manipulated to the point of fictionality.

A playful riff on the ancient form of the triumphal arch, "Empire," by the Irish sculptor Eva Rothschild, may be viewed for the purposes at hand as a metaphorical gateway to the entertainingly illogical array of new and old artworks awaiting Midtown and Upper East Side gallery hoppers.

Aside from avoidance of clutter, the purpose of this, typically, will be to emphasize that our choice of this or that variable or constant typically does not matter for the purposes at hand.

Yet it seems one can deepen an explanation by opening black boxes and revealing how things work down to whatever level one takes as relatively fundamental for the purposes at hand.