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The intentions were as pure as anything that you have ever done that was pure.
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The choice of purification methods and the source of the drug will determine the nature and amount of contaminants in the final medicine. (Nothing is ever 100% pure.) Moreover, protein folding, various kinds of enzymatic modifications and impurities inevitably introduce variation, sometimes with unexpected results.
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Mr Clinton, whom no one has ever accused of being virginally pure, has long had the knack of emerging unscathed from the bad publicity that dogs him.
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In late October Union Bank of Switzerland was lead manager for Nichiei in the largest pure overseas share issue ever by a Japanese firm.
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As ever, what kept a woman pure was the drudge's life, of which Juvenal supplied the traditional formula: "Hard work, short sleep, hands chafed and hardened" from housework.
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Ya ever wonder, you know, just out of pure curiosity, what percentage of women are FAs and what percentage of women are sales assistants to FAs?
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If you are really gentle with the accelerator, you can supposedly get up to highway speed (62 miles per hour) on pure electricity, without the gas engine ever kicking on.
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Well, from the moment he swings his leg over it and rolls off down a country lane, it becomes part of him, alive in the hands of the people who built it, tight, responsive, balanced, the rhythm of its spinning pedals akin to pure happiness, the loveliest thing he has ever owned.
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As an army like this could not be employed in pure soldiering all the time, they also became the garrison builders and later township builders of where ever the British decided to settle or develop a terminus or hub point.
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With each soft tilt of her head, she brought back memories of the little girl who began skating for the pure love of it, before medals or titles or the expectations of an entire country and sport ever entered her mind.
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