purposive

How To Use purposive In A Sentence

• The scheme (Purposive Discarding based Filtering) decides whether the client's request is legitimate or not by observing client's protocol consistency behavior.
• They look for a collective life involving emotional, intellectual and physical inputs in some purposive activity.
• The Area Committee rejected this submission as being contrary to any purposive interpretation and as contradicted by the clear wording of the regulation.
• Nevertheless, it does illustrate a reluctance on the part of the courts to acquiesce in the loss of a right of appeal which would have been the result of a stricter, less purposive construction.
• On the other hand, the muscles of our limbs are termed ‘voluntary,’ because we can use them to carry out the purposive determinations of the Will.
• If Mr. Spencer's "Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed" is purposive, that is equivalent to saying that God is what we mean by personal. Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
• An aeon of evolutionary pressure has selected for ordered and regular behaviour that leads to positive outcomes, and this can look like purposive behaviour.
• Revelation is the sensitizing of persons to/to ward the divine activity with the invitation to participate in that purposive world.
• In light of the historical attention given to purposiveness and intentionality, it is worth asking what is required in the way of cognitive structure to support these aspects of adaptive behavior.
• It was founded on a broad purposive interpretation giving effect to the intention of Parliament.