Sentences with phrase «one's chief purpose»

More of it comes from wealthy individuals and corporations whose chief purpose is to have access to, and influence on, government officials.

The second chief purpose of classifying is to facilitate control of things.

He also rejected as inhuman King's command to love the enemy: «It is not possible to love a man whose chief purpose in life is to humiliate you and still be considered a normal human being.»

You'll get as much entertainment (and that is the films chief purpose in my eyes) as you are willing to let LVT do his thing.

The purveyors are really little more than digital drug dealers — their chief purpose is an utterly addicted population.

The chief purpose of these scores is to have a measure of your company's financial stability.

The way he situates marriage alongside virginity is, to my modern eyes, certainly sobering; it's unromanticized, as it is made clear that the chief purpose of marriage is the begetting of children, and that is, in a certain sense, inferior to virginity.

All of us are interested in salvation, but all of us have interests in the church that frequently lie outside the church's chief purpose.

It is also easy to lead children to sing simple songs for the chief purpose of having fun, to the extent that they get whipped up in a frenzy of enjoyable emotion, which we teach them (even if only inadvertently so) is the mark of true worship.

That insight had such significance for John Paul that he would return to it fourteen years later in Fides et Ratio, writing that the chief purpose of theology «is seen to be the understanding of God's kenosis, a grand and mysterious truth for the human mind, which finds it inconceivable that suffering and death can express a love which gives itself and seeks nothing in return.»

Yet whenever there has been a clear conception of the office one of these functions has been regarded as central and the other functions have been ordered so as to serve, not indeed it, but, the chief purpose that it served directly.

Verse 23 defines the chief purpose of the church as forgiveness of sins and the withholding of forgiveness or judgment.

Protecting perpetrators and integrating them into the new society, however, was not the chief purpose of the TRC.

However, the chief purpose of the point I am trying to make has been served.

Their chief purpose was to create a cloud of smoke under cover of which a bayonet, sword, ax or pike charge could be mounted.

As a matter of fact, its chief purpose was and is a defense of the church.

While religion informs, enriches, and provides a moral foundation for public life, the chief purpose of religion is not to serve public life.

Now it would seem that the logic has been reversed: the chief purpose of God is to glorify humankind.

At one time theologians argued that the chief purpose of humankind was to glorify God.

Thus to be human is to be what God made and purposed man to be, and to exhibit the fact that God's chief purpose and man's chief end are identical.17

The chief purpose of the synagogue was the Sabbath service, consisting of the Shema («Hear, O Israel, the Lord thy God is one God,» Deut.

Indeed, it is usually taken in small bites along with rice and other foods, its chief purpose being to perk up something otherwise bland, and to cleanse the palate of fats and starch.

Though the Mystic Rock pro-am donated nearly $ 100,000 to the Leukemia Society of America, charity was clearly not the event's chief purpose.

Temperature, oxygen and infection regulation are the chief purposes of incubators.

«One of the chief purposes of civil marriage is to connect children with their biological parents, and particularly with their fathers.

Their chief purpose, however, remains the same: to minimise leaks and keep skin dry and healthy and babies comfortable.

The chief purpose of hiring university scientists now is to make more financial profits for their employer (see my early article in the Scientists category on «What's the New Main Job of Faculty Scientists Today?»)

The chief purpose of the ideas in this section of our website is to stimulate your thinking about training.

All of these characters (and more) bring something to the table, but their chief purpose in the film is to act as mirrors, ciphers and sounding boards, giving us insight into Llewyn as a man.

Although one of the chief purposes of the system was to influence the professional development of teachers, one of the criticisms of PDAS was that there was very little emphasis on this aspect, and very little linkage between the appraisal results and subsequent professional development activities.

Meyer argued Amendment 8's ballot summary and title are unclear, ambiguous and misleading because they fail to say the proposal's chief purpose is to change school funding.

The chief purpose of these scores is to have a measure of your company's financial stability.

I was also mindful that the chief purpose of this event was to build support and momentum for education abroad, and I wanted to make certain that The Forum did everything that it could to cheerlead and support this effort, rather than cast too critical an eye on any of the proceedings.

So fall on whichever side of the argument you like, but it won't really change the fact that one of the chief purposes of a video game, in the first place, is to keep us engrossed by constantly offering up something new.

The chief purpose of the renovation was to repair cracks in the stucco facade, which runs 75 feet along the fronts of three of the brownstones.

It means singleness of purpose, sincerity and honesty within, as well as avoidance of exterior clutter, of many possessions irrelevant to the chief purpose of life.

President Trump appears to even suspect that the economic impact of climate alarmist policies is the chief purpose behind China's support of climate alarmist policies.

While the chief purpose of a personal injury is to recover damages for the plaintiff rather than punish the defendant, it is sometimes possible to seek punitive damages for intentional or particularly malicious misconduct.