Money burning or burning money is the purposeful act of destroying money.

If Leverett had left a widow, I could go and annoy her, but it would be hard to think up a less purposeful act.

"I think the right answer is to require proof of outrageous or purposeful acts," he said.

War, like policy its master, is a purposeful act.

Even in the nuclear age, war must be approached as a purposeful political act.

There is no power to any of the systems, and the shutdown appears to have been a purposeful act.

India's state of underdevelopment is a result of a purposeful act of victimization.

The taking of a drug should be a carefully thought out and purposeful religious act.

It meant, he said, the death resulted from "the purposeful act of another person," specifically the efforts by officers to arrest Mr. Jones.

It was the LX's first purposeful act of defiance in forty millennia.