• In bankruptcy court, the question was whether the main purpose of the plan was tax avoidance.

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  • Did it ever occur to you that this is the main purpose of the culture war?

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  • The main purpose of the Compact is to disallow any new diversions of water outside of the region.

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  • Chelsea Garbell, president of Bridges and a junior at NYU, said the main purpose of the trip was to facilitate religious dialogue.

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  • Unlike a fallout shelter that protects from radioactive debris, the main purpose of the building was to protect from shock waves and overpressure.

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  • The main purpose of the plan is to create a more competitive industry which means, in practice, taking China Mobile down a peg or two.

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  • The trouble is that, taken together, the barrage of bad news has drowned out the main purpose of the trip: to present Mr Romney as an international statesman-in-waiting.

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  • The main purpose of the FPI letter is to urge Obama to give his commanders additional resources if, as expected, they ask for more troops in the near future.

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  • The main purpose of the inquiry is to look at how successful national and local land use planning policies are in delivering government policy objectives e.g. climate change, affordable housing and regeneration.

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  • According to a national January Rasmussen telephone poll of 1, 000 American adults, 65% think that the main purpose of the Second Amendment is to make sure that people are able to protect themselves from tyranny.

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  • The main purpose of the seminar was to give an general idea of current state of ground water in Uzbekistan, scientific-educational activities and the area of usage of underground water and determination of future trends relating to improvement of research methods and educational approaches with development of practical recommendations.

    UNESCO: OFFICE IN TASHKENT

  • So, it could be that the main purpose of the book is to help business people become more conscious so that as they become more conscious of the things that they sort of do unconsciously, they can defend business better, and they can have businesses that are actually more successful as well.

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  • The main purpose of the project was the safeguarding and promotion of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, enlarge knowledge of theses Masterpieces proclaimed by UNESCO among young generation, and promote the participation of youth and children in the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage and cultural diversity, enhancing intercultural dialogue for social cohesion and understanding.

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  • In statistics, the coefficient of determination, denoted R2 and pronounced R squared, is used in the context of statistical models whose main purpose is the prediction of future outcomes on the basis of other related information.

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  • The Council of the Federation is constituted under the USSR president's leadership and comprises the USSR vice president and the presidents...of the republics, for the purpose of laying down the main avenues of the Union's domestic and foreign policy and coordination the republics' actions.

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  • The first question the FCC has to ask is what was the main purpose of splitting Ma Bell into the baby bells?

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  • It is very important not to lose sight of the main purpose of a pension scheme, which is to provide income in retirement.

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  • During the time-sharing wave of 35 years ago the main purpose of sharing was to maximize hardware.

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  • James Cook, a year into his circumnavigation of the world, observed the transit of Venus over the Sun's disc, the main purpose of his voyage.

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  • The main purpose of this meeting would be finalizing the IDI road map and determining its future activities and action plan.

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  • The main purpose of international laws of war is to punish the evil and protect the innocent.

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  • It is, of course, absurd to suggest that the main purpose of these groups is anything other than political activity.

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  • The main purpose of this show is to help young people see that even the people you look up to share similar interests and are basically the same, and to break stereotypes.

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  • Mostly the debate centred on whether women should engage in a sport, the main purpose of which is to inflict damage on your opponent and, in the professional game, possibility to knock the other person unconscious.

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  • Canonical has been pretty clear that the main purpose of this early release is to lure in developers and get them to contribute to the fundamental stages of the project.

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  • The main purpose of UNESCO, according to its Constitution is to contribute to peace and security by promoting the collaboration of nations through education, science and culture.

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  • The main purpose of this trip is rebuild bridges and improving relationships which could give him more leverage over the new Israeli government, the BBC North America editor Mark Mardell reports.

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  • The main purpose of this text is to protect shipwrecks, which are key to understanding our history, especially the development of trade routes.

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  • All MPs had to sign off their expenses confirming that they "incurred these costs wholly, exclusively and necessarily to enable me to stay overnight away from my only or main home for the purpose of performing my duties" as an MP.

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  • That the schools know this is their main purpose is clear from the prominence of the university destinations of alumni in prospectuses and on websites.

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