purposes

What matters for our purposes is the way in which it explicitly reconceptualizes a theory of managed consumption as one of managed excess.

Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire 2007

It sounds to me like the Brits have strayed away from one of the main purposes of the Scouts: teaching youth valuable life skills and RESPONSIBILITY, including the responsibility that comes from carrying/using a TOOL that can possibly be used as a weapon.

Scouts Ban Knives in Great Britain 2009

Ironically, however, one of the main purposes of their fiscal imbalance measure is to support privatization.

The $44 trillion shortfall, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

But you can hold it through a Fideicomiso. which for all practical purposes, is the same as ownership. gpkisner

"owning" property in the restricted zones 2009

Remember the 'fair use' doctrine gives consumers the right to publish parts of normally copyrighted material for certain purposes (such as public discussion, academic work etc.).

Hayekians vs. Stiglitzians, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

It sounds to me like the Brits have strayed away from one of the main purposes of the Scouts: teaching youth valuable life skills and RESPONSIBILITY, including the responsibility that comes from carrying/using a TOOL that can possibly be used as a weapon.

Scouts Ban Knives in Great Britain 2009

First of all, her first name for all intents and purposes, is Diva.

Lu of averages 2009

Now that a legalization for ALL purposes is on the ballot, the same old tired nonsense is being trotted out.

Norman Goldman: Let's Party Like It's 1996! Norman Goldman 2010

And using the Triangle Shirtwaist Company as any sort of example for modern purposes is rather absurd.

Matthew Yglesias » McConnell’s Middle Class 2009

This would not be so upsetting were it not for the fact that sports stadiums have been accepted as a "public use" for eminent domain purposes, so that government can take people's homes from them in order to build these stadiums -- hardly the sort of thing the authors of the Fifth Amendment considered a public use.

Sports Stadiums, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009