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    purposeful


    1. The fisherman’s was a happy soul and he thanked his lucky stars for the gift that they had made to him of a strong and purposeful wife


    2. for the gift that they had made to him of a strong and purposeful


    3. This is individualized and purposeful magic


    4. Bex is unable to respond to pain in a conventional way with purposeful movement, reacting by involuntary extension of her limbs only


    5. Compulsions are purposeful and intentional behaviors, and when the person tries to


    6. Sometimes in life, what you do seems so purposeful and so fitting to your skills that you describe it as a calling


    7. are purposeful and consistent feelings


    8. What may not be as easily remembered is his utter failure (purposeful failure, I might add) to make appointments that would make his administration „look like America," not when so many key positions ended up being filled by minority men and white women


    9. Another glaring example of the purposeful destruction of the English language


    10. His movement was slow and purposeful and took minutes to accomplish a few inches

    11. A nation‘s indifference to military preparedness and its uncritical assumptions regarding the inestimable intentions of hostile nations is consistent with the erstwhile requirements of a purposeful nation that has lost the Will to Lead by example


    12. Such achievements, however, should be cultivated in an intellectually purposeful environment that


    13. Although international treaties and alliances are of vital importance to the security of any nation, they must neither compromise a nation‘s sovereignty nor permit conflicting (national) interests to undermine that nation‘s purposeful designs unless intended to promote harm to other (peaceful) nations


    14. These differences must necessarily circumscribe or limit, whether influenced by natural designs, circumstance or purposeful intent, the decisions that (we) make or don‘t make, or are unable to make, for that matter; for example, a below-average student seeking enrollment at an Ivy League College or a modest wage earner looking to buy a home in a pricey neighborhood


    15. Addendum to the above: Progress and Change should not be confused with a purposeful lack of clarity prompted by expedient designs commonly adopted by ―reformers‖ who actively seek to promote their (own) political and social agenda rather than advance


    16. A determined action of this nature should not be considered apart from the purposeful action of having taken someone‘s life; that is to say, such potential no longer exists once it has been superseded by a definitive action


    17. This procedure must remain wary, however, of arbitrary or capricious designs whenever, for example, civilian populations are (unintentionally) killed or property destroyed (collateral damage) that oftentimes occurs during times of war yet are properly understood (or should be) as contingencies of war whose (untimely) deaths or destruction otherwise fail to meet the standards of (purposeful) criminal intent


    18. What is confusing to individuals seeking salvation, is the troubling notion that Grace should be the ―arbitrary‖ by-product of God‘s (purposeful) designs in accordance with His Divine Will and that ―earnest‖ appeals and (hopeful conference) remain an ―uncertain‖


    19. Grace does not invalidate Free Will that, however expressed in accordance with God‘s (purposeful) designs, allows every individual to charter his or her own chosen course; that is to say, to decide whether to (freely) accept or reject what God expects from each of us or has to offer us if we willingly accept it with an open heart


    20. What we are witnessing today, however, especially in the more wretched urban environments, is a conspicuous absence of purposeful ―genius‖ attributable less to inherent factors than the prevailing influence of a McDonald‘s-like mentality that seems to promote the lowest forms of culture that baser designs have to offer

    21. Free Will is not absolute in any worldly manner because it is oftentimes influenced by internal conditions that remain vague and uncertain; that is to say, lacking absolute (consensual) authority; subject to an individual‘s moral, intellectual and material orientation that (nevertheless) seeks to follow God‘s purposeful intentions


    22. Such is fated for a society that is neither willing to uphold its legal traditions nor unable to estimate the consequences of its purposeful actions


    23. And now, going on seemed less purposeful than it had earlier


    24. When it tastes food it learns with alacrity the coordination necessary to acquire a purposeful supply


    25. Whether just trial and error over extremely long expanses of time selecting for that behavior changed the expression of that gene sequence, or a more purposeful alteration was performed cannot be known with any certainty at this reading


    26. And Neanderthal man, 800,000 years ago, appears to have buried his dead in a particular way that implied a purposeful component suggesting hope for some kind of continuation


    27. What was the use of all the thoughts if no one knew that I’d had them? But oral witnessing had never been a strength of mine, and how would anyone else be able to make the kind of sense out of such a rambling train of thoughts, that seemed so delightful to me, as they came, seemingly unbidden so many times, and in so many ways? But any attempt at purposeful recitation on my part never seemed as good or complete, or organized


    28. From early childhood he recognizes his image as a representation of himself…Awareness of self could have been the beginning of future abstract thought…Somewhere within that miasma of inherited change…(from a fortuitous notice of a naturally sharp edge to purposeful manufacture) Man continued the sharpening of his tools of survival


    29. He began forward, his strides long and purposeful


    30. purposeful, but stopped suddenly as he approached the exit

    31. There are serious deficiencies in those projections, including lack of adequate data, bias in selecting the data, and purposeful manipulation of data to achieve the desired political result


    32. Without causality there will be no order; nor purposeful


    33. Q: What is wrong with purposeful action?


    34. that it is a purposeful action (for instance, to point at something or to grab


    35. Attention is associated with the capacity of selection, where selection is often understood as a purposeful choice of object, or purposefully making the attentional field a maximum at a particular object


    36. without any purposeful effort on the part of the person


    37. Wolf Lochert had been silent yet purposeful as he ate and seemed at his ease


    38. should be considered urgent!” With this, he strode off at a purposeful gait, leaving the two


    39. in purposeful motion through the panic


    40. Her gait looked purposeful, but he could not see why she would have anywhere to go

    41. for consciousness, thinking, awareness, speech, purposeful movement, and


    42. purposeful outcomes The research has been reported to the ‘Proceedings


    43. However, some wrongful convictions are purposeful and intentionally perpetrated by vindictive, selfish, morally and ethically challenged individuals such as Tarrant County Prosecutor Mike ―Prevaricator Pimp‖ Parrish


    44. Because of the undeniably purposeful egregious misconduct of the prosecutor the Texas Attorney General's office now has the case


    45. donned a robe and with purposeful slowness, ambled downstairs


    46. “Keep it,” you give her a purposeful lewd grin and add with a wink and an indirect proposition, “plenty more where that came from


    47. We Japanese are masters at indirect, but purposeful language so I took the liberty of asking the ambassador’s household staff if they had ever seen Mr


    48. It must have been a terribly humiliating experience for Alistair but it was my purposeful intention to demean him in front of his subordinates for his years of workplace abuse


    49. to answer his soul; his life had to be purposeful, not


    50. It was a purposeful built seaside resort with a hotel, guesthouses, amusement arcades,













































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    Synonyms for "purposeful"

    purposeful useful utilitarian pragmatic usable serviceable workable applicable resolute decisive wilful deliberate intentional conscious unwavering

    "purposeful" definitions

    serving as or indicating the existence of a purpose or goal


    having meaning through having an aim