One of the most important innovations was the purely American idea of requiring all children to go to school.
For purely selfish American reasons, the answer is yes.
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Maria, though, seems to idolize her younger American relative, purely and simply because he is family.
Maria, on the other hand, seems to idolize her younger American relative, purely and simply because he is family.
But maybe the difference in American and Swedish obesity is purely cultural in nature: maybe those austere, disciplined Nordics know not to gorge themselves at the government trough despite the fact that their welfare state is ludicrously more lavish than anything on offer in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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But American engagement abroad has never been purely about securing access to energy.
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That is a mix quite different from American Media's Star, which focuses purely on celebrities and publishes photos and stories about face-lifts, weight gain and botched relationships.
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But as a Cuban-American, he has motives that are more personal and ideological than purely political.
The American people would not have accepted a vote that would have been purely a partisan vote voting to impeachment the president of the United States clearly on partisan grounds.
He may be on the way out, but that doesn't make him wrong about the clear and present danger of an American president embarked on a path that insists on regarding economic policy as purely domestic policy, and it certainly doesn't mean that David Cameron would fare any better as the outside pressure continues to rise.
"You have to think it was purely cynical politics, so he could point to it later, " said Ted Frank of the American Enterprise Institute.
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