Sentences with phrase «closely defined purpose»

Orders are usually made by government ministers, and serve a specific, closely defined purpose.

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Here for the first time (give or take one or two irritatingly anachronistic uses of the word «feminist») I found myself unconvinced by this generally sympathetic and entertaining writer, partly because the idea of defined social purpose might tie physicists too closely to the prevailing orthodoxies and pieties of the day.