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How to use the word purpose in a Sentence? Page #14

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We hope that the incoming Biden administration can take a more strategic look at the purpose of the sanctions, and can lift those that don’t change the position of the group in power and instead create problems for the population.

Feliciano Reyna

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Public transit uses a lot of diesel, we hope that the incoming Biden administration can take a more strategic look at the purpose of the sanctions, and can lift those that don’t change the position of the group in power and instead create problems for the population.

Feliciano Reyna

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I continue to advocate for monetary policy accommodation and fiscal policies that protect the economy from collapse at a time when we are on purpose restricting both production and consumption.

Kristalina Georgieva

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

In terms of policies for right now, very unusual for the IMF, starting in March I would go out and I would say: ‘please spend’. Spend as much as you can and then spend a little bit more, i continue to advocate for monetary policy accommodation and fiscal policies that protect the economy from collapse at a time when we are on purpose restricting both production and consumption.

Kristalina Georgieva

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Eric was our purpose in life. He depended upon us, his parents, to help him navigate through this confusing world, not being able to see him or hear his voice has been devastating to us.

Donna Lou

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This moment in time might call for this dynamic, but over the long term it will be destructive to the noble purpose and ideals of the open internet. A company making a business decision to moderate itself is different from a government removing access, yet can feel much the same, yes, we all need to look critically at inconsistencies of our policy and enforcement. Yes, we need to look at how our service might incentivize distraction and harm. Yes, we need more transparency in our moderation operations. All this can't erode a free and open global internet.

Jack Dorsey

Found on CNN
3 years ago

He is the most honest person I've ever met because he didn't just stop at speaking the truth, he actively searched for it. In himself, in those around him and in the moment, the truth can be a very easy thing for the self to avoid, but if one does not live in truth, then it's impossible to live in line with a divine purpose for your life. And so it became how he lived his life, day in, day out. Imperfect, but determined.

Ledward Boseman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The purpose of the conspiracy was to defraud the FAA (Aircraft Evaluation Group) ... in order to bring about a financial gain to Boeing.

Boeing Co

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Starting last year- since my husband got diagnosed -Ive been on a strange journey. Paddling a canoe in a stormy sea. My boys are in the back, scared but preoccupied. Sometimes the waves are smaller and easier to navigate, some days I lose my paddle and waves threaten to overwhelm. But I know my purpose is to get myself and my kids to safety, to the beach.

Paulina Porizkova

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

You have people that will critique something that say' Her lip syncing was off,' well, that was done on purpose because Selena's lip syncing was also a learning process.

Christian Serratos

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The FTC complaint sort of defeats the purpose.

Geoffrey Manne

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Each time Chadwick Boseman stepped on the set, Chadwick Boseman inspired and influenced everyone there, and with every role, Chadwick Boseman created a new legion of fans. Chadwick Boseman had an incredible power to unify people and their love for Chadwick Boseman work and their respect for Chadwick Boseman as a person. The way Chadwick Boseman lived Chadwick Boseman life united people behind a higher purpose, and that will be Chadwick Boseman legacy.

Don Cheadle

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man's self-defense, and, as such, may only resort to force only against those who start the use of force.

Ayn Rand

added by Normando
3 years ago

The whole purpose of this is we've got to make sure people aren't thrown out of their apartments, lose their homes, are able to have unemployment insurance they can continue to feed their families on as we grow back the economy.

Biden TransitionBiden

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Trumps approach has probably made things better by improving border security. And, of course, the Trump administration unlike the Obama and Bush administrations didnt allow ATF to mastermind gun-smuggling operations into Mexico, for the purpose of later finding the crime guns and using the finding to bolster the argument for gun control in the U.S..

David Kopel

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

That is not the standard the court must look at, prosecutor Jesse Evans must look at whether the defendant had the intention of obstructing and influencing the investigation, and that is the purpose of Gregory McMichael phone call, to show that he wanted to influence and obstruct this.

Jesse Evans

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I think I have served the purpose that I came here for, which was to provide a credible election product for our members.

Brenda Snipes

added by Normando
3 years ago

I would love to see disabled people be able to access circuits and access the industry, hopefully, through this academy, we can give people more opportunities, more happiness, more purpose.

Nicolas Hamilton

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Farmers aren't going to give up, nor should they be expected to give up, highly productive farmland for this purpose.

Alistair Driver

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Census Bureau officials're saying Census Bureau can't adopt a plan that undermines the purpose of accuracy, that undermines that in the bureau's own words, that of their own officials, that they can't do what they're now trying to do and achieve an accurate enough count.

Melissa Sherry

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The purpose of the Bill of Rights was to limit what the federal government could do. Any interpretation of a provision of the Bill of Rights as a grant of federal power is ipso facto wrong.

L. A. Powe Jr.

added by Normando
3 years ago

A business with a clear sense of purpose will use its strategy to help shape the decisions it makes.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
3 years ago

I don't think the sense of urgency and the hope for quick negotiations were really coming from Khalilzad or the negotiating team but were coming from the White House. It was the constraint the negotiators have been under. A quick turnaround on the negotiations will serve a political purpose because the election is coming up.

Seth Jones

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We're going to protect information from being leaked for political purpose. It's happened too much and I won't stand for it.

Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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