An additional £2.5bn in funding is a relatively trivial sum in the scheme of things; the purpose is to raise the salience of health as a subject in the minds of voters.
English speakers commonly use sentences of the form "Some S are P" to implicate "Not all S are P," but they rarely if ever use them to implicate "Not more than half of all S are P".[45] Speakers are commonly understood accordingly.[46] These regularities are socially useful, serving, among other things, the purpose of communication.
This was a time when there was more silence in the world, when one could meditate upon the meaning of things, the purpose of life, and one's place in the universe.
Three days after writing it, Princess Fatima — clearly having received no reply from the State Department — wrote a second letter to Secretary Hughes, in which she had this to say: It is a sad thing that the purpose of my addressing you on this occasion is an unhappy one.
As I mentioned, there are differences in the interface outside of books, and in how you search and buy, that sort of thing, but the purpose of these devices is to display e-books, and they all do it without appreciable differences.
Too much of a good thing defeats the purpose!
He said it as if that were the whole thing, the whole purpose of what he had done and what he meant by it.
It is possible that Stalin himself invented these things for the purpose of minimising the role and military talents of Marshal Zhukov.
Why is being stupid -- doing dangerous stunts, mocking basic human empathy, doing things for the purpose of getting ridiculed -- a medium of rebellion?
In fact, almost a quarter of adults believe that a "supreme being guided the evolution of living things for the purpose of creating humans and other life in the form it exists today".
