noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sense of purpose/direction (= a feeling that you know what you are trying to achieve )
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Becoming a mother had given her a new sense of purpose.
clarity of vision/purpose/thought etc
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Churchill’s clarity of vision impressed all who knew him.
commercial considerations/reasons/purposes
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Commercial considerations must come second to conservation of the environment.
defeat the object/purpose (of the exercise)
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Don’t let your arms relax as that would defeat the object of the exercise.
dual role/purpose/function
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The bridge has a dual role, carrying both road and rail.
express purpose
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The school was founded with the express purpose of teaching deaf children.
For illustrative purposes
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For illustrative purposes , only a simple example is given here.
for peaceful purposes
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A Foreign Ministry spokesman stressed that the nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes.
humanitarian grounds/reasons/purposes
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He was released from prison on humanitarian grounds.
ostensible reason/purpose/aim
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The ostensible reason for his resignation was ill health.
primary purpose/aim/objective
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Their primary objective is to make money.
sb’s sole purpose/aim
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Their sole purpose was to kill.
serve a useful purpose/function (= be useful )
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Sending her to prison would serve no useful purpose.
serve the purpose
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A large cardboard box will serve the purpose .
strength of purpose/mind (= determination to do something )
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In pursuing this ambition, William showed remarkable strength of purpose.
suit sb's purpose
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It suited her purpose to let him believe the lie.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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Its presence here has a different purpose .
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We are accustomed to see it placed, for different purposes , in different hands.
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The book describes ways of going about setting up a variety of programmes with different purposes .
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It would give people and organizations a range of appropriate currencies to use for different purposes .
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Each group is used for a different purpose , to inactivate bacteria or block the action of viruses, for example.
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They are very different in their purpose: the women and the ventriloquist's dummy.
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This range varies for different purposes , but the aim is always to make it as wide as possible.
dual
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This was a Baptist church in an inner city area with a modern dual purpose building surrounded by high-rise local authority dwellings.
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This is a dual purpose crop.
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We ask both groups to be aware that the paths have a dual purpose and to show consideration for each other.
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It fulfils a dual educational purpose .
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This visit made apparent the dual purpose of the scheme - of accountability and professional development.
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The dual purposes of this chapter are to describe and explain this major division in the distribution of resources in old age.
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This is a difficult question to deal with partly because of the dual purpose of the entire exercise.
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This is a dual purpose exercise which develops the strength in your legs and the flexibility in your shoulders.
general
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His general purpose was to humanize prison conditions and to provide prisoners with opportunities for personal reformation.
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Since the budgets of all governmental agencies have the same general purpose , certain similarities exist in their forms.
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From a strategic perspective, management will usually need intelligence for two general purposes: environmental scanning and competitor analysis.
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Maxxam said it would use the proceeds for general corporate purposes , including repayment of debt.
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Although in theory Postscript could be viewed as a general purpose programming language, it is strongly biassed towards visual representation.
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Everything was housed in general purpose tents.
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Fig 1: Three types of crampon points - a curved lobster claw b general purpose c straight lobster claw.
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Government officials said the proceeds would be used for general financing purposes .
main
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The main purpose of this elaborate system was almost certainly profit for the king.
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The main purpose of Levin's article, however, is to reclaim Debord for the aesthetic discourse of avant-garde cinema.
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The main purpose of the pro-am has nothing to do with golf.
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The main purpose of these pads is to give the water a final polish and continuous use is not really obligatory.
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But the main purpose of our trip to Arran was to see the golden eagle.
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The main purpose of these beacons is: 1.
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The main purpose of the list is to illustrate complexity and variety of political-economic and physical circumstances of soil erosion.
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The objects and objectives of an enterprise Every business organisation has its objectives - ie. its main purpose for being in existence.
other
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A well built unit can always be used for other purposes should your venture not come up to expectation.
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Substantial payments were made out of the Forest revenues for these and other purposes relating to the maintenance and upkeep of the castle.
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From the beginning, though, children should be learning to write in other forms and for other purposes .
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The knowledge obtained from solutions that are put into the eye for other purposes is considerably valuable.
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Such a large Survey would of course serve many other governmental purposes .
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The machinery is so specialist that it can not be used for any other purpose .
particular
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Their value is determined by your particular purpose or essay.
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Further, the buyer must have made known to the seller the particular purpose for which he was buying the goods.
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Economists have usually held that trying to tie a government's hands to spend in line with revenue raised for particular purposes is impossible.
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Of what value is the evidence for our particular purposes ?
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It never occurred to me that these two hard chairs were kept for a particular purpose .
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Since such orders are not the product of a directing intelligence they can not be said to have a particular purpose .
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The point here is that institutions are useful only if they have been designed to achieve a particular purpose .
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The particular purpose is to assess the effects of private and State employment strategies upon the town's population and culture.
political
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The symbolism which these involved, and which was indeed their essence, was frequently manipulated for political purposes .
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But as the holiday has gained popularity over the years, Munoz worries that the political purpose has been forgotten.
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Hariri has been generous beyond narrow political purposes .
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The balance was legitimate expenditure for primarily political purposes , Flynn has contended.
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No payments were made for political purposes .
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On this occasion, the smooth display of pomp was meant to serve a deeper political purpose .
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Yet the temptation to use the Games for political purposes remains irresistible.
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It was a question of how he believed he could best attain his major political purposes .
practical
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Polarising windows are inadequate to give selectivity for most practical purposes , and barrier membranes must be used.
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For all practical purposes , these securities are risk free.
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For all practical purposes , the Holy Spirit could be discounted.
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It is essential for that knowledge to be put into practical and useful purposes .
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When the restoration is complete, Woodchester will have a practical purpose .
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For all practical purposes , the Army of the Potomac was on its own.
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Beneath the wealth of statuary and architectural ornament, such monuments usually had a practical purpose .
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It involves the use of celestial recurrences for the practical purpose of regulating daily activity.
present
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I will re-present Eikmeyer's model here, with adaptations for the present purpose .
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In what follows, we shall narrow the scope of the term to something more adapted to the present purpose .
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For present purposes it is important for three reasons. 1.
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The contrast seems to me, for present purposes , to be a very useful one.
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But we have said enough for present purposes .
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For present purposes there are in my judgment two streams of authority relating to moneys wrongly extracted by way of impost.
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For present purposes we can conclude that Trotsky looked to proletarian democracy as a defence against bureaucratization.
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Conversely, a body may be styled a tribunal and yet be a court for present purposes .
primary
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Their primary purpose is the conservative one of helping to sustain and maintain the existing order of things.
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Angiletta said the primary purpose of the web site was to keep the public informed about legislation to protect children from predators.
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The primary purpose must, always, be to sell the product.
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Laboratory tests have two primary purposes , one of which is to detect marginal nutritional deficiencies.
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The primary purpose of the proposed research will be to acquire detailed knowledge about how the new Act will operate.
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The lawyer is dishonest-he claims that justice, service to mankind is his primary purpose .
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Their primary purpose is to speed up browsing.
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It is the primary purpose of this chapter to correct what I view as an imbalance in this respect.
real
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Now that he was working and studying with real purpose , he had a problem.
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They have to be tendentious and have real purpose .
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And when they are listening in this way to check their theories they have a real purpose in listening.
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What was the real purpose of the visit?
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He doesn't understand what it is to have real purpose , or peace.
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The real purpose of the tax code is to supply tax breaks for politicians to auction off to campaign contributors.
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His real purpose was to further the cause of Roman Catholicism.
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It is as though their own real purpose were to find a proper excuse to take their own lives.
sole
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Their sole purpose was to kill, by any means, provided the end result was the death of the chosen victim.
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The sole purpose of marriage, then, is to bear and raise kids?
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From then on, many changed banks, with the sole purpose of giving their previous firm a run for its money.
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The whole school seemed to have been designed with the sole purpose of freezing all the pupils to death.
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Her sole purpose in being here was to kill some time.
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That is their sole purpose - to strengthen desirable behaviour.
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Various parties pursued conflicting objectives, often making tenuous alliances with each other for the sole purpose of expediency.
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What a doctor can not do is administer a drug for which the sole purpose is to end life.
specific
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Belbin's description of team roles has proved to be very useful, especially in creating teams for specific purposes .
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The statement of purpose should open with one statement followed by several shorter very specific statements of purpose.
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Research is an active and formally organised search for specific information for a specific purpose .
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The proposal serves as a guide to the hypothesis testing process which embodies the specific purpose of the study effort.
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It is always difficult estimating the room you will need unless you are having the greenhouse built for a specific purpose .
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It is brought into existence precisely to enable a specific purpose to be realised.
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There is now only the one pool, which he designed with the specific purpose of encouraging Koi-keepers with limited space.
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The business group will seek legislation allowing local governments to tax for specific purposes only.
useful
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Right: Batsford products are based on real bits of wood; or serve a useful fishkeeping purpose .
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Brand names serve a useful purpose , not just for the producer but for the consumer as well.
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It is perhaps in the field of attribution that this catalogue serves the most useful purpose .
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Therefore, s.64 would no longer serve a useful purpose .
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However, critics such as Michael Steiner, a Chula Vista parent, question whether the test serves any useful purpose .
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But adverse planetary influences invariably serve a useful purpose - and never more so than right now.
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tax
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Moreover, incorporation itself would involve a cessation for income tax purposes .
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The property they own has an assessed valuation for tax purposes of $ 1. 6 billion.
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Cohabiting couples are not eligible for Married Couple's Allowance, and for tax purposes are regarded as two single people.
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This tax on bank deposits is not deductible for tax purposes .
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It is not essential for an organisation to be registered with the Charity Commission to qualify as a charity for tax purposes .
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Also record the pay figure for tax purposes on the P11 and P14.
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Use the value of the land declared by the landlord for tax purposes as the basis of compensation for expropriated land.
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The sale will also be treated as a disposal for capital gains tax purposes .
■ VERB
achieve
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In general, however, the scheme has been successful and has achieved the purposes for which it was instituted.
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When I die, I can, if I am lucky, die knowing that I have achieved my purposes .
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A group is a collection of individual people who come together to achieve some purpose .
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They concentrate ori mobilizing and deploying capital, labor, and technology to achieve desired purposes .
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The plotter had achieved his purpose .
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Program evaluation is concerned specifically with determining the worth or values of efforts expended to achieve a given purpose or objective.
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A prudential practice is instrumental in nature, being designed to achieve a specific substantive purpose .
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But groups can employ a variety of strategies to achieve this purpose .
build
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It is always difficult estimating the room you will need unless you are having the greenhouse built for a specific purpose .
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I wanted to build a modest building for such a purpose , but there was an uproar.
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But first we had to heat up the tyre in the oven we'd built on purpose to do this.
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Timber used on building sites for construction purposes such as shuttering and formers is usually discarded - often just burnt.
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But now it looks to me like the River Rouge plant, built for a purpose long obsolete.
defeat
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Detailed guidelines defeat the very purpose of guidelines. which is to allow considerable local flexibility and adjustment.
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This, of course, defeats the purpose for which the medication is being given.
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Inconsistent State practice would only defeat the entire purpose of the convention for a stable regime.
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They are defeating the purpose of the Peace Corps and they are unhappy.
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Running around in circles and seeing the same old thing defeats half the purpose .
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This obviously defeated the purpose of bail, which is to assure that the defendant will appear in court.
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But Max's kindness and good manners defeated my purpose totally.
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If they become a chore, they defeat the purpose of helping the child to want to interact with you.
serve
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In some ways it serves the same purpose as having a service to recognize the end of mourning.
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The outer-space design serves a purpose , too.
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Inhibitions are rare except for a bankruptcy inhibition, which serves the same purpose as a land charge in unregistered conveyancing.
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It is essential that both wind strength and direction serve your purpose .
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It was the sort of exhibition she usually despised, but she knew that nothing less would serve her purpose .
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The ones that serve my purpose .
suit
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It must suit the purpose for which it is used.
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The czars introduced constitutional guarantees, only to ignore them whenever it suited their purpose .
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Hedges are an example of the readiness of ordinary people to bend the language to suit their purposes .
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Woman, having no identity of her own as woman, being defined as lack, is eminently suited for this purpose .
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Religious bigots have often employed the cunning device of converting other people's heroes into villains, to suit their own purposes .
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They would turn him when it suited their purpose .
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It would not suit my purpose to get him drunk.
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It is up to the practitioner to decide which stance is best suited to a particular purpose .
use
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In the main, however, the selection procedure is rigorous enough so that basic training does not have to be used for assessment purposes .
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Still other badges are used for specific purposes .
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Are the premises being used for business purposes ?
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Or, more handy still, you can use it for denial purposes .
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Money when used for this purpose is a means of temporarily storing wealth.
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Government officials said the proceeds would be used for general financing purposes .
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In general, all visual aids were used for a purpose .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
for medicinal purposes
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Marijuana was legalized for medicinal purposes.
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I would naturally consider sympathetically any invitation to take part in clinical trials requiring ingestion of whisky for medicinal purposes.
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Last November, voters in California and Arizona passed initiatives which allow the use of pot for medicinal purposes.
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That's what you need - whisky, for medicinal purposes.
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The Physic Garden is planted with examples of herbs used in Medieval times for medicinal purposes.
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These would have been used for both flavouring and for medicinal purposes.
for/to all practical purposes
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But, for all practical purposes you can say that a wind angle of 60° produces maximum drift.
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Computerized free language indexing is, for all practical purposes, the same as natural language indexing.
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Indeed for all practical purposes he owned us.
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Most of the 54 stories reproduced here, even the previously published ones, were, for all practical purposes, lost.
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The edit display screen can only be used, for all practical purposes, for cutting and pasting.
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Yet for all practical purposes, Windows was Macintosh.
singleness of purpose
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Fridays Pray for the Mission Board, that there might be unity and a singleness of purpose.
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Here spoke the man of destiny whose singleness of purpose overrode all other considerations.
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Well-structured courses prevent the sense of singleness of purpose from being dissipated.
to all intents and purposes
ulterior motive/purpose etc
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A member is entitled to a judgment that is free from any extraneous or ulterior motive.
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Actually, he invited me out tonight, probably with an ulterior motive.
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An ulterior motive for performing text recognition is to convert existing printed material into a computer format that permits further processing.
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However, for Guangming Ribao, all her appeals to students to end the demonstrations had an ulterior motive.
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It was difficult to accept that Jane had no ulterior motives.
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No ulterior motive lurks behind it, but it keeps you at a distance.
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The legislation pertaining to protection of wetlands and endangered species is clearly being abused by extremists pursuing ulterior motives.
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They look around for other explanations and ulterior motives.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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My purpose in writing this book was to draw attention to the problem of global warming.
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Read up on starting a small business. Loans can be obtained for this purpose .
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The purpose of the experiment is to find better ways of treating battlefield wounds.
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The games have an educational purpose .
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The group's purpose is to help disabled teenagers have fun and meet new friends.
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The main purpose of the meeting is to discuss who will be in the team.
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There is no penalty if the quarterback deliberately throws the ball out of bounds for the purpose of stopping play.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Defining that role is the main purpose of this chapter.
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He always handled such events with the same purpose .
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Its body is dedicated to this one purpose .
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The arbitrariness of this classification is well illustrated when an individual chooses, for tax purposes, to be regarded as self-employed.
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The central purpose is to hammer out long-term strategies for the nation as a whole.
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The ritual done, we settle at last into fulfilling the purpose of this expedition.
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This year, the picnic has a solemn purpose .