• The Trust's main purpose is to preserve as much as possible of these battle sites at a minimal outlay of government money.

    FORBES: Battle cry

  • The league has a few big-name foreigners, but it believes that Americans generally prefer to watch Americans and that its main purpose is to serve as a showcase for home-grown talent.

    ECONOMIST: Why there is no soccer in America

  • Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation, which advocates greater openness, believes this opacity feeds concerns that the Chamber's main purpose is to act as a front for a subset of members on a relatively small number of controversial issues.

    ECONOMIST: Corporate lobbying

  • 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.

    BBC: Mitt Romney foreign trip silence irks reporters

  • 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.

    BBC: Co-operate on expenses, MPs told

  • And they say they are pleased "to see strong consensus that in the main A-levels are fit for purpose" and support for keeping the AS-level.

    BBC: Education & Family

  • 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.

    FORBES: A Wholesome Approach To Capitalism From Whole Foods Co-Founder

  • Everton founded Visible Vote as a way to allow voters to connect with members of Congress, and this is still its main purpose.

    FORBES: Business In The Beltway

  • His main purpose was to make America feel good about itself, and to make it see itself as the sort of nation that wouldn't lapse into fear in the face of such an attack.

    BBC: America's mourner in chief

  • 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.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Would Obama really fight the war?

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