"What statesman in all history has done anything calling for so wide a view and for a purpose more lofty?"

Before we left there was a final briefing to remind us of the lofty purpose of our adventure on the Ice: to support science.

This assault on the indigent cannot be explained away as a necessary belt-tightening to reach a lofty purpose, like cutting the Federal deficit.

The Republican tax-cut bill is not about alleviating onerous tax burdens, sparking investment or any other lofty purpose.

For all the lofty mundane purposes bestowed on this city, a comprehensive exercise was undertaken to find a perfect location for it.

For the National Symphony, the demonstration had a less lofty purpose.

"The lofty purpose is I'd like to see investors do as well as they can," he said.

Not the great and lofty purpose, but the faint, quiet, persistent voice spinning out a yarn.

As a model of pandering to students in the guise of lofty academic purpose, I thought that was pretty hard to top.

There is, apparently, a lofty purpose to the existence of the boorish, loud-mouth Bundys.