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How to use the word purposes in a Sentence? Page #10

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Primarily they will do so for reputational purposes, to illustrate that they take employee misconduct seriously, a lesser factor is that they are unlikely to suffer in any material way financially.

Paul McAleavey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The markets have been yearning for a period of political stability in Turkey for quite some time now. To all intents and purposes this is the best result that the markets could expect.

Nicholas Spiro

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The government would like to ask for fairness and transparency in the Memory of the World program so that it would not be used for political purposes, as for Japan's (financial) contribution (to UNESCO), we plan to look into all possibilities and revisions, including halting payments.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Understand that you have information sometimes that is of commercial value and you are expected to use it only for scientific purposes.

Arthur Caplan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For most purposes, the World Bank is currently a human rights-free zone. In its operational policies, in particular, it treats human rights more like an infectious disease than universal values and obligations.

Philip Alson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If the software were installed for other purposes, Volkswagen would not have a defense in any civil penalty action but could in a criminal case.

David Uhlmann

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This knowledge may improve embryo development after in vitro fertilization (IVF) and might provide better clinical treatments for infertility, any donated embryos would be used for research purposes only.

Kathy Niakan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This knowledge may improve embryo development after in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and might provide better clinical treatments for infertility, any donated embryos would be used for research purposes only.

Kathy Niakan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As a mom I would so love to have an award ceremony like the VMAs to watch with my kids because my son, who is 4, loves music so much, but obviously I don’t feel comfortable, we saw a little of it because my husband was watching it for work purposes, my son says ‘ why are there so many holes in [ Miley Cyrus' ] outfit ? ’ which I thought was amazing. So speaking of style, that’s her own personal style.

Alyssa Milano

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We've written language into our prospectus that allows us to go to 100 percent cash for defensive purposes, we have written the documents to give us as much flexibility as possible to weather a potential liquidity storm because we have to be thoughtful about the risks.

William Housey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We had always [all] our lives been told -- it wasn't true -- that Nan released that book for smear purposes, that Harding had mumps and was sterile, i said OK, and I'd repeat that answer -- I remember -- when people were asking.

Abigail Harding

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There is clearly the opportunity for Iran to use some of the revenue that they gain for malign purposes, and that bears watching and collaboration with our regional partners, including Israel.

Martin Dempsey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Now that there's a negotiated agreement, my job is to ... collaborate with allies in the Gulf and Israel to ... increase our vigilance for the other activities and then to work with them to mitigate the threat that would be posed if [the Iranians] choose to use this revenue for malign purposes.

Iran Dempsey

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Using Italian silk is very important to us because we know who has made it and how. For our purposes we need extremely clean cocoons.

Alessandro Di Grazia

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

From a cultural perspective, Jidai Japanese will always buy daggers for prestige or protection purposes, bringing them to funerals and leaving them at shrines, there is a worry that the craft will die but I don't think so. There is always a new influx of people who are interested, and people who always were.

Paul Martin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

For example, if somebody is going out and engaged in activities like going to a restaurant or movie theater, it doesn’t necessarily have to say that’s exactly what they’re doing or the location. [The tool] can say the person is engaged in activities related to entertainment, a lot of companies are using these kinds of data for marketing purposes.

David Mohr

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Our dream is to give people the capability to train their dogs like professionals at home, so that the pets can be turned into working animals. For example, for search and rescue, when there's a big disaster in an urban environment, hundreds of houses collapsed, and there's only a certain number of trained dogs, so this would give us the capability to train more and more dogs for such purposes.

Alpert Bozkurt

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Thousands of years of evolution have dictated that's what he should do, we haven't evolved a hawk to catch things for our own purposes -- we're just utilizing its natural abilities.

Donna Davis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We haven't evolved a hawk to catch things for our own purposes -- we're just utilizing its natural abilities.

Donna Davis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Islamic State executions are not merely retribution by the state for behavior seen as illegal, the Islamic State uses executions to intimidate and dominate the local population, for diplomatic communiqus to world leaders, for recruitment purposes and to demonstrate the organization is in complete control.

Veryan Khan

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Lehman's unrestricted ownership of the securities defeats any suggestion that Doral entrusted the securities to Lehman when it entered into the repos, because Doral did not entrust securities to Lehman, we further conclude that the appellant is not a customer for purposes of SIPA.

Chief Judge Robert Katzmann

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The market is not that big, the market is not that fast, they don't sleep on board and just use the boats for entertainment purposes.

Fabiomassimo Discoli

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They don't sleep on board and just use the boats for entertainment purposes.

Fabiomassimo Discoli

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

My client wanted to hire full­-time faculty members for inspection purposes.

Sanjeev Priyadershi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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