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How To Use purposive In A Sentence

• Every student of physiology is familiar with what is termed automatic action, with the tendency of cells to repeat vibrations originally set up by purposive action; thus are formed what we term habits, and we unconsciously repeat motions which at first were done with thought. Death—and After?
• If one looks at that history we say that a purposive construction gives rise to a different view to that which I understand is literally open.
• In contrasting their ritual presence to the differance of purposive endeavor, Wordsworth seems to hearken back to an anecdote in Boswell's Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music
• Officials generally believe that war results from a calculated, purposive, conscious decision.
• It is essential, however, that these paths intersect at key points, so one can stray or purposively deviate from an easier trail to a more difficult one (or from a more defined to a less defined one).
• There is, moreover, a scientific view and method regarding what he calls the purposive view which he overlooks entirely, and which by emphasis of the causal, makes seemingly impossible. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology
• Belief in God, gods and spirits is what Monod calls animism: the projection into nature of the purposive properties of the human central nervous system.
• She began to move, for the first time, in a purposive direction. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
• ‘Although the term ‘purposive construction’ is not new, its entry into fashion betokens a swing by the appellate courts away from literal construction.
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