Sentence examples for worldly purposes from inspiring English sources

All serious yogis, however, agree in disapproving the use of Yogic methods for worldly purposes.

Have universities become too captive to the immediate and worldly purposes they serve?

Next, Williams refused to take an oath of fidelity to Massachusetts, on the grounds that anything sworn in God's name for worldly purposes was corrupt.

Given the duality of "Redwood Curtain" -- a worldly, moralistic purpose and an other-worldly aura -- the play is a killer by practical standards.

Given the duality of "Redwood Curtain" -- worldly and moralistic purpose, other worldly aura -- the play is a killer by practical standards.

Qasīdahs are poems written with a "purpose"—the purpose being worldly gain, in the case of poems praising kings and noblemen, or benefit in the afterworld, in the case of poems praising God, the prophet Muḥammad, and other holy personages.

Chandoo and the other Pakistanis, along with the writers Obama associated with, had a seriousness of purpose and a worldly sensibility.

The Hajj cannot be performed for the purpose of gaining worldly recognition or material gains in this life.[1].