Sentences with phrase «sole purpose of appealing»

At best, it describes a very particular kind of middlebrow drama that seems to have been created from the ground up with the sole purpose of appealing to the Academy — think «The Iron Lady» or «Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,» to name two recent examples.

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The latest fundraising appeal from Fight Back NY, the PAC created with the sole purpose of replacing senators who voted «no» on legalizing same - sex marriage with those willing to vote «yes», comes in the former of a Web video starring actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson.

Titus informs Jupiter of her significance to the family, and Jupiter is tempted by the appeal of living a better life, until she discovers the fate of those on Earth; it is merely one of many planets in the royal family's possession, and its sole purpose is for the humans, once they have rendered life on Earth unsustainable, to be harvested in order to create a formula that grants the royals eternal life.

5) populist fiction, such as «romance» novels that appeal to the lowest common denominator, again, for the sole purpose of making money.

The claimant might have been given hope by another fairly recent case, Delaney v Pickett [2011] EWCA Civ 1532, [2011] All ER (D) 201 (Dec), where the Court of Appeal held that an injured passenger could nevertheless claim despite the fact that the sole purpose of the journey was to transport commercially grown cannabis plants.

C.A.: appeal allowed for sole purpose of ordering payment of balance.

Others noted that factums were drafted not as creative works for all time, but as advocacy documents that had the sole purpose of advancing the client's argument and winning appeals.