In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
The purpose of the tramper is to pack the lint into the press box under the restraining dogs near the top end of the press box.
She had a clipped assurance of manner, a purpose in her step, which seemed to announce to anyone who cared to look that she had reached a decision, and reached it even-mindedly.
As in Emily Dickinson there is too a fastidious precision of thought where unrhymes fill the purpose better than rhymes
Used in the Ending of Sentence
This is the first time a multitransitional study of spectrally resolved rotational ammonia lines has been used for this purpose.
The underspecification of the project led to the development of software that was not fit for purpose.
...and no man ever knew him intimately who did not recognize and admire his great abilities, both natural and acquired, his large-heartedness and sincerity of purpose.
Meaning of purpose for the defined word.
Grammatically, this word "purpose" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.