Sentences with phrase «serve such a purpose»

In this case, Stratton's tackle served such a purpose.

All American public schools ought to serve such a purpose, as they once did.

Toys serve such a purpose for children as aids in creating imaginative fantasy.

Not exact matches

That required a keen eye for detail, such as installing garden walls that serve a decorative purpose during the day but can used as seating for a nighttime performance.

This money can serve a variety of purposes, such as research funding (approximately half of the 2016 payments) and ownership and investment interests.

They also serve a different purpose, providing a host of potential benefits such as improved mental health or logic, problem - solving and motor skills; something morrison's customers can easily attest to.

For the individual serving as the chief executive officer of the Company at the end of the taxable year and for the individuals serving as officers of the Company or a subsidiary at the end of such year who are among the three highest compensated officers (other than the chief executive officer and chief financial officer) for proxy reporting purposes, Section 162 (m) of the Code limits the amount of compensation otherwise deductible by the Company and its subsidiaries for such year to $ 1,000,000 for each such individual except to the extent that such compensation is «performance - based compensation.»

Sure, more people than ever have probably heard about bitcoin, and they may have heard about some of its closest rivals by market cap, such as Ethereum and Ripple, but they don't have the faintest idea what purpose they serve or how they really work.

It would serve no purpose that any such god could conceivably have, but such nonsensical fear mongering DOES serve the purpose of church leaders who want to herd everyone under them.

Untutored people who raise such questions as «Why should I wear a tie when it doesn't serve any purpose?»

Surrogate mothers, such as Richards the nurse of Dombey and Son or David Copperfield's eccentric Aunt Betsey, serve a worthy and important purpose, nurturing children into adulthood.

Such is the difficulty involved, however, in making modern language serve this purpose that in this regard the coöperation of the reader is imperative.

It serves other purposes that explain its length — for being such a devotee to science you show way to much blind faith in Richard Dawkins!

[49] Our purpose is better served by the former because our concern is not so much on the theories and concepts of religion, but on the interactions between living and active religions on such central concept as salvation.

Perhaps that's the real test of these narratives; distinguishing between those who would embrace and defend any atrocity for the self - serving purpose of displaying allegiance and those who resolutely reject such atrocities in favor of empathy.

No useful purpose is served by denying that such friends are conservatives.

Attacks such as these often serve good purposes.

The fact is that se - x is complex, serves more purposes than the merely procreative, and attempts such as this to reduce and distort it into simplistic molds are nothing but damaging.

The Latin word resurrectio appears to have been created for Christian use, and while the Greek equivalent anastasis is certainly pre-Christian, it does not seem to have been widely used until Christian times, some scholars thinking that, when Paul referred to it at Athens, his hearers mistook it for the name of a goddess.26 The idea of resurrection first came to expression in the form of a narrative, and until the advent of the above technical terms, words of very general usage, such as «raise», «wake up», «stand up», etc., served the purpose of relating it.

Excellent post David... and such a common experience.Why is it that when we create a system to serve our needs, we ultimately end up oppressed by the system?Somehow, we inevitably lose sight of our intended purpose and eventually, our humanity.I can think of solutions for myself, but how does one fix the system?

Scholars are indignant at the perversion of their art by such publications oblivious to the fact that their own efforts often serve the same purpose — among the educated elite!

As such, its main purpose is practical — to serve as a resource for helping couples to learn skills of relating in depth.

So far as we can tell today, there is no single pericope anywhere in the gospels, the present purpose of which is to preserve a historical reminiscence of the earthly Jesus, although there may be some which do in fact come near to doing so because a reminiscence, especially of an aspect of teaching such as a parable, could be used to serve the purpose of the Church or the evangelist.

They are presented in more or less their original form because in this form they served the purpose of the Church, or the evangelist, and not because there was any historical interest in the original form as such.

«Instead of exploring creative ways sport might serve true religious purposes such as spiritual growth and enrichment, the Christian community has seized on sport as a tool of status enhancement, advertising, and evangelism,» he says.

Therefore, no system of material objects may serve as a frame of reference and be completely suitable for the purpose of analyzing in terms of laws the motions of material objects; for such laws of motion should be stated in such a manner that they are unaffected by the peculiar absence or presence of inertial forces in particular physical frames of reference.

It means penetrating them in such a way as to be able to instruct the world concerning its purpose of serving human need, concerning its original foundation and the end toward which it moves.

But here any Devil worthy of the name would recognize that such an adolescent charade should not only be permitted but encouraged, as chauvinistic excesses are in wartime, since the cause they can not help but serve is generous enough in scope to bend them to its purpose.

One of the major purposes of such a staff member is to relate to the local clergy in order to develop a referral net which makes it possible to reach the people the center is organized to serve.

Such sexual preaching serves one purpose, to control.

Its purpose, therefore, can only be served by intense examination and discussion in the light of the Scriptures, even if it turns out that the form of the teaching must be modified as a result of such reflection.

It is an inevitable finis; and no good purpose is served by denying that such is the case.

It is easy to demonstrate that such stories, with no basis in fact, do serve this purpose.

Unfortunately, many use harmful synthetic chemicals that may serve an industrial, production or marketing related purpose (such as ensuring a long shelf life or achieving an attractive colour) but can be harmful to your health over time.

Ingredients: • 2 1/2 cups all - purpose flour • 2 tablespoons sugar • 1 tablespoon baking powder • 3/4 teaspoon cream of tartar • 1/2 teaspoon salt • 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, cut into pieces, plus extra for serving • 4 ounces Cheddar cheese (1 cup), grated • 2 tablespoons minced fresh herbs such as parsley, rosemary, and tarragon • 1 large egg • 1 1/4 cups buttermilk

Often fermented a second time in the bottle, like Champagne, beers such as wits (white beers) and saisons (farmhouse ales) are extra-bubbly, which means that the heavy, oversized glass and cage - reinforced cork serve a practical purpose.

Such like articles only serve one purpose and that is to irritate as many fans as possible i included.

As your child ages, you can add extras to the yogurt you serve, such as fresh fruit pieces or vegetables for dipping purposes.

Laundry detergents are usually composed of a whole variety of chemicals, all are chosen to serve a particular purpose such as fragrances, dyes and anti-microbial properties which are retained by the washed fabrics.

I downvoted this question because I don't think that such body count comparisons serve any purpose.

«The basic purpose of this commission, according to the governor's charge, was to «comprehensively review and assess New York State's education system, including its structure, operation and processes...» In failing to deal at all with such major issues as funding, special education, the lack of appropriate supports for English language learners, as well as ignoring major current controversies such as implementation of [teacher evaluations] and common core systems, the commission has ill - served students, parents, and the public at large.»

He went on to say, «The prisons in Oneida County serve additional purpose aside from housing inmates, such as providing low - cost food operations, which serves the entire New York State prison system and the soon to be complete automated central pharmacy, which will do the same.

Such fallacies like the Islamisation of Nigeria, the killing of Christians by Muslims, the labelling of Nigeria as the most dangerous place for Christians in the world can only serve one purpose: trigger a religious war», the minister said.

(Among other challenging questions that could serve no other purpose but to embarrass the Party and its candidates in the eyes of any random cable viewer were such pressing, burning 2016 presidential campaign questions so often thrown at Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump as: would you have fought World War I?

Such excessive imitation, called overimitation, is a special form of copying in which people perform actions that clearly serve no purpose.

It remains unclear what evolutionary purpose is served by such skewed sex ratios.

«We were chronicling mistakes but stopping short of asking why such behavioral or cognitive tendencies existed or what general purpose they might serve.

Ultrasonic vocalization among rats serves different purposes, such as alerting fellow rats without tipping off predators.

He suspects that the tails of arboreal mammals, such as cats and monkeys, serve a similar purpose.

Archaeologists call such lines «geoglyphs,» whether they are meant to be artistic or serve a practical purpose.