"purpose" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years."
- The elephant, which its owner had reared, not for a beast of burden, but for warlike purposes, was half domesticated.
- Yet there was nothing to suggest any warlike purpose for the laboratory.
- True, Captain, but that requires the additional assumption that these anomalies were created solely for warlike purposes.
- India was for long years a pacifist country, although even in Nehru's time it was realized that atomic energy was a double edged sword which could be used for warlike purposes too.
- Norway cannot use the archipelago for warlike purposes, cannot discriminate economic activity based on nationality and is required to conserve the natural environment.
- Article 9 of the Svalbard Treaty specifies that no fortifications and naval bases may be built on Svalbard, nor can the archipelago be used for "warlike purposes".
- No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers.
- And they took care to preserve the same number of men and women through all time, being so many as were required for warlike purposes, then as now-that is to say, about twenty thousand.
- Apart from being a monarch, the King's interests included mathematics, and anything that would be beneficial to his warlike purposes.
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