Purchase
in example sentence
Then-Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said that he decided to
purchase
the islands for the Japanese central government to prevent Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara from purchasing them with municipal funds.
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It means reduce your carbon dioxide emissions with the full range of choices that you make, and then
purchase
or acquire offsets for the remainder that you have not completely reduced.
On average, a household's
purchase
of clothing per year requires 1,000 bathtubs of water to produce.
In his great novel, "The Brothers Karamazov," Dostoevsky gives these words to Ivan, addressed to his naive and devout younger brother, Alyosha: "If the sufferings of children go to make up the sum of sufferings which is necessary for the
purchase
of truth, then I say beforehand that the entire truth is not worth such a price.
This is a perfect idea of thrift; you use what you need, you don't actually
purchase
anything, so you save money.
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