| The abuse was thus deliberate and purposive, intended to make prisoners psychologically ready for interrogation. |
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| I have again attempted to construe the statute in a purposive manner and with my understanding of the intent of the Act in mind. |
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| The Americans pushed for peace, and Garang fell to the task with purposive will. |
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| If one looks at that history we say that a purposive construction gives rise to a different view to that which I understand is literally open. |
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| This is an inclusive or purposive concept of community which in principle excludes no one, but which cannot be assigned to you. |
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| Poisoning is no doubt a purposive activity, and reflections on its purpose may show that it has its internal principles. |
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| Only if what we are trying to explain is the purposive activity of a rational agent is it appropriate to look for a personal explanation. |
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| In this microscopic view, experience is revealed as having a foundation of ceaseless activity, of short-lived purposive impulses. |
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| This is the purposive activity of craving on a large scale, as it embraces all sentient life. |
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| Officials generally believe that war results from a calculated, purposive, conscious decision. |
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| It appears that D will be convicted only where a purposive intent is proved. |
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| Lord Denning led the stampede for the door, arguing for a purposive approach. |
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| They look for a collective life involving emotional, intellectual and physical inputs in some purposive activity. |
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| It was founded on a broad purposive interpretation giving effect to the intention of Parliament. |
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| This was a purposive sample that included people at various levels of commitment to the church and various lengths of time in attendance. |
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| It finally rained at night, quiet but intense rain, the sort where you look out and see sheets of water moving across vast tracts of Singapore like a purposive entity. |
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| An aeon of evolutionary pressure has selected for ordered and regular behaviour that leads to positive outcomes, and this can look like purposive behaviour. |
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| The Area Committee rejected this submission as being contrary to any purposive interpretation and as contradicted by the clear wording of the regulation. |
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| Firstly, courts should take a purposive approach to interpreting the rights. |
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| It was, therefore, decided that the choice of a purposive sample would be appropriate. |
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| For the first time, there was a framework which, however ambitious, set clear directions for purposive worldwide action. |
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| Data were gathered using face-to-face interviews from a purposive sample of women in one Nunavut community who selfidentified as Inuit. |
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| This approach, while also a purposive approach, is quite the opposite of the purposive approach which this Claimant argues. |
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| The civilian approach to interpretation tends to be functional and purposive, emphasizing the spirit over the letter. |
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| Its immense human and natural resources, put to purposive use, will someday confound those who have become used to looking down upon Moscow. |
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| Against such a background the scientific research which forms the basis of purposive management of bird populations and habitats is one of the pillars of the general system of protection of wild birds. |
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| The risk of a capitation payment plan is the potential purposive selection of other professionals employed within primary care based on their lesser credentials to minimize costs. |
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| This problem is two-edged in that the situation of women currently in poor circumstances must be dealt with while planning effective, purposive policies to forestall the drift of women into poverty. |
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| Indeed there is something unnervingly purposive about RBS's demise: far from being out of control, the firm made a calculated bet that went wrong. This is reflected in attitudes to Sir Fred north of the border. |
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| It is the duty of the court to construe the Convention in a purposive way. |
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| The sampling approach was a purposive one in which staff at Regional headquarters and in Area offices suggested the names of licence-holders for both the participant and non-participant samples. |
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| The first point to note is that Canadian courts in interpreting human rights legislation have asserted that it needs to be read in a liberal, purposive manner. |
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| Such proposed regulation should be purposive. |
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| Other REBs may give a purposive and functional interpretation of the standard to include videoconferencing, with such exceptions to apply to specific contexts and necessities. |
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| Artificial selection is purposive where natural selection is not, though biologists often use teleological language to describe it. |
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| In India, today, it has a unprecedented status as a potent and purposive instrument for speedy social engineering. |
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| An important empirical task is to determine whether purposive muddling is better than best practice when elites have reasons to impede progress for their populations. |
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