purposes

Synonyms

sake grounds

Phrases with the word

to all intents and purposes for all intents and purposes for all practical purposes at cross-purposes for all intense and purposes for all intrinsic purposes

Examples

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves. Benjamin Tucker

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. Hannah Arendt

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted for a moment, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support. Lysander Spooner

There are hidden purposes behind an act. Indonesian Proverb

Klingons kill for their own purposes. Klingon Proverb

Though living, dead for all useful purposes. Latin Proverb