Purpose
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Market values cannot serve that purpose, because they reflect only what one market participant is willing to pay another in a free exchange.
Their primary
purpose
would be to preserve peace; but crisis prevention cannot start early enough.
The
purpose
of Trump’s move is clear and indeed explicit: to topple the Iranian regime.
Still, if competitiveness underpins the sustainability of trade deficits, there is in principle no good economic reason to impose short-run measures – price and cost adjustments – for the
purpose
of achieving a long-term objective, unless the
purpose
of price and cost adjustment is indeed to dampen demand.
The
purpose
must be to establish Europe as a forceful and fair-minded player on the world stage, rather than as a “broad church” in which different viewpoints co-exist.
To ensure that it does, is, after all, the main
purpose
of accession talks.
As on the Internet, so in real life: sometimes friction has a
purpose.
Brands and advertisers can speak directly to customers, and markets no longer need the convening power of a newspaper to match buyers and sellers (the
purpose
of classified ads).
They serve a higher
purpose
(although they can be and often are corrupted or twisted for bad ends).
But I think he bought it for a different
purpose.
In the case of countries with poor fiscal positions, Europe’s rescue fund, the European Financial Stability Facility, can lend for this
purpose.
Europe’s strategic and normative interests have thus re-emerged with a vengeance; in fact, Putin has managed, almost singlehandedly, to invigorate NATO with a new sense of
purpose.
The
purpose
of betting, of course, is not to declare winners and losers; it is to replace endless, pointless arguments with a clear determination of whose understanding of reality is closer to the truth.
The Marrakesh Agreement, which established the WTO as the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in 1994, sets out the
purpose
of achieving greater coherence between the WTO and other international agencies.
The
purpose
of higher education is evolving.
But, although the policy is the same as the Fed’s, its
purpose
is very different.
Instead, a major if unspoken
purpose
of the ECB’s low-interest-rate policy has been to stimulate net exports by depressing the value of the euro.
But the very
purpose
of using model organisms is to confirm what we find in the real thing.
The key to success is to realize that an oil fund is a limited instrument for a specific
purpose.
Roman Polanski’s American DreamNEW YORK – What
purpose
is Switzerland serving by jailing the renowned Franco-Polish film director Roman Polanski on a 30-year-old warrant?
Common sense would seem to leave no other conclusion than that his arrest – in a country that is obliged by treaty to extradite fugitives from US justice – serves no
purpose
at all.
In January, Laurence Fink, the chief executive of the $6 trillion investment firm BlackRock, told business leaders that if they wanted his continued support, they must do more than generate profits; they must also serve a “social purpose” by making “a positive contribution to society.”
This common sense of
purpose
is reflected in our regions’ policies.
But treating force and diplomacy as distinct phases of foreign policy gives the negotiating parties the sense that American power lacks
purpose
and resolve.
So, if the
purpose
of austerity was to reduce debt levels, its critics are right: fiscal belt-tightening has failed.
The
purpose
behind China’s continuous modernization of its strategic assets is to enhance the credibility of its deterrent threat by improving the survivability of its nuclear forces.
The second
purpose
is data for public management.
The third
purpose
is data for accountability of governments and businesses.
Pug Ismay’s pithy bon mot that NATO’s
purpose
was “to keep Russia out, America in, and Germany down” no longer suffices.
The lack of historical vision among the current generation of political leadership undermines the shared sense of
purpose
needed to make EU citizens feel that they are part of the same community, regardless of their different national identities.
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