Sentence examples for utilitarian reason from inspiring English sources

There was a good utilitarian reason for the state to encourage all women to work, not just those on benefits.

I remember having the idea for New Society and loving that there was a utilitarian reason why people were asked to participate.

The head salesclerk was a severe woman whose hair was cut in what neo-Nazi skinhead girls used to call a "fringe," a crew cut with short bangs designed for one utilitarian reason; in a fistfight, you couldn't grab their hair.

In some cases this might be for a completely utilitarian reason.

This is regrettable not only for aesthetical or scientific reasons linked to biodiversity conservation but also for the simple, utilitarian reason that the more we reduce and select the species co-occurring with the crops, the more we reduce the probability that there will be early bio-indicators of unanticipated risks and implications of the introduced technologies.

We change our minds for utilitarian reasons, too.

Most participants favored grass cover over shrubs or saplings on ROW for aesthetic or utilitarian reasons.

We ride for recreation as well as for completely utilitarian reasons.

This is at least a stronger argument, but it still crashes and burns for pretty basic utilitarian reasons.

But sometimes the cutoff is set for utilitarian reasons: We don't want to hurt young people, but we also don't want young people to hurt us.

A surprising number of physicians write for less utilitarian reasons as well, choosing the narrative essay as a means of exploring the non-technical issues that emerge in their clinical practice.