Sentences with phrase «largely define the purpose»

Despite these extreme limitations of state testing programs, the cumulative effect of the multiple uses of these tests is that the exams largely define the purpose and processes of schooling in most states.

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Meanwhile, the conception of the church under the impact first of «toleration» and then of complete freedom and separation had largely lost the sacramental dimension which traditionally had sanctified her regular observances under Episcopal direction by making them intrinsically meaningful, and had become that of a voluntary association of explicitly convinced Christians for the purpose of mutual edification in the worship of God and the propagandization of the Christian faith as the group defined it.