in order for
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in order for
To indicate a possible consequence of an event or action.
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In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.
In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.
Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.