(1) Cameron: We must not be deflected from our sense of aimlessness.
(2) That may sound familiar to Tottenham fans, who grew tired with their team’s aimless, sideways passing under André Villas-Boas.
(3) I hope these works are not buried in the museum's basement aimlessly.
(4) Alan Pardew's side have forgotten how to win at home and, resorting to too many aimless long, high balls, could find no way beyond the excellent James Collins and his fellow West Ham United defenders.
(5) I watched as a class of listless 10-year-olds struggled with an aimless lesson in creationism.
(6) Self-analysing but also self-deluding, strongly driven but curiously aimless, Sanders is an early version of a character-type that recurs throughout Ballard's fiction.
(7) Intense and long lasting pains in opioid abstinence, mainly located in the chest and in the hip, also have all the characteristics of aimless pain.
(8) Aimless wandering in the quagmire of imaging techniques is very expensive and nonproductive.
(9) Fourier famously predicted work could become play – its qualities could absorb the qualities of aimlessness, humour, even eroticism.
(10) There aren't many options for him, though, and his cross is aimless.
(11) 10.06pm BST ET 18 min: Gabi foolishly gifts Real possession as he trots upfield aimlessly.
(12) Slovakia v Paraguay in Bloem: another drab spectacle with the Slovakians managing to run around aimlessly for 90 minutes.
(13) The rebels moved through holes dug between walls and took pot shots at government soldiers while the tank, unable to manoeuvre in the narrow road, fired shell after shell apparently aimlessly, sometimes striking close enough to the fighters to shower them with glass and plaster.
(14) The rover Curiosity touched down on the red planet about seven months ago and since then has been doing the usual tourist things: wandering aimlessly, shooting photos and bitching about the exchange rate encountering unexpected tech glitches .
(15) O'Shea heads aimlessly behind, unless he was deliberately going for a spot 20 feet right of the target, in which case he's got that bang on.
(16) You don't inspire public confidence by aimlessly drifting around in vans in north London saying: 'By the way, can you please go home please'."
(17) The values that Hong Kongers hold so dear – equality, freedom and justice – have all been ebbed away and destroyed … we have no other way when facing a broken government but to let go our bodily desires.” The decision was greeted with mixed feelings: while many cheered at the announcement, others worried that it might end with Joshua Wong taken to hospital, and with the movement as aimless as before.
(18) when countless crosses were pinged in ( see this video of crosses *), not aimless but deliberately aimed towards a front three of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Cesc Fabregas.
(19) At all levels of the game, most of the time, technique and good ball players will triumph above nebulous concepts like 'bottle' and 'guts', and agricultural concepts like high, aimless long balls.
(20) On the other hand, in the hyperkinetic phase of catatonic schizophrenia, in which the patient performs sequences of incoherent aimless movements without any relation to the current situation and environment, these structures are supposedly altered.
Purpose
Definition:
(n.) That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan.
(n.) Proposal to another; discourse.
(n.) Instance; example.
(v. t.) To set forth; to bring forward.
(v. t.) To propose, as an aim, to one's self; to determine upon, as some end or object to be accomplished; to intend; to design; to resolve; -- often followed by an infinitive or dependent clause.
(v. i.) To have a purpose or intention; to discourse.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(2) The purpose of these studies was to better understand the molecular basis of chromosome aberration formation after mitomycin C treatment.
(3) The purpose of the present study was to report on remaining teeth and periodontal conditions in a population of 200 adolescent and adult Vietnamese refugees.
(4) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
(5) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
(6) These patients had undergone selective and bilateral simultaneous IPS sampling for diagnostic purposes or for neurosurgical indications.
(7) The purpose of the present study was to analyze the effects of cromakalim (BRL 34915), a potent drug from a new class of drugs characterized as "K+ channel openers", on the electrical activity of human skeletal muscle.
(8) The committee reviewed the history, original intent, current purpose, and effectiveness of meetings held on the unit; when problems were identified, suggestions for change were formulated.
(9) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
(10) For this purpose a test consisting of 135 picture cards was devised.
(11) For this purpose the blood flow velocity in the internal carotid artery, basilar cerebral artery and the anterior cerebral artery was measured by pulsed Dopplersonography before and 5-10 min after i.v.
(12) The purpose of our study was to determine the effect of HVPC on edema formation in frogs.
(13) The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of pretreatment with indomethacin on the refractory period to hypertonic saline-induced bronchoconstriction.
(14) What constitutes a "mental disorder" for purposes of the insanity defense?
(15) It delimitates the restrictive conditions in which such methods could be used for clinical but not research purposes.
(16) Benzyloxycarbonylarginine p-nitrophenyl ester and other activated esters of N-a-sustituted arginine salts may be useful reagents for introduction of trypsin-labile protecting groups into peptide fragments for purpose of polypeptide semi-synthesis.
(17) The purposes of this study were to assess the career development needs of entering medical students as measured by the Medical Career Development Inventory and to examine gender differences in responses to the inventory.
(18) For this purpose, five queries may contribute to programming the most suitable surgery.
(19) The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether the signaling behaviors of female Long-Evans rats varies over the estrous cycle.
(20) The purposes of this study were to locate games and simulations available for nursing education, to categorize these materials to make them more accessible for nurse educators, and to determine how nursing's use of instructional games might be enhanced.