Beyond that, nuclear weapons would even serve the purpose of a far more ambitious aim.
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Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?
The ECB does not discriminate among member issuers, so Italian bonds serve the purpose just as well as Finnish ones.
Barack Obama has proposed a bank tax that would serve the purpose.
And they weren't selected (by prosecutors) for this hearing that we've had thus far because that didn't serve the purpose of the hearing.
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But there are other things on the surface beginning with the air and things deeper still that instead serve the purpose of reminding you.
The upcoming elections serve the purpose of making Chavez look like he is presiding over a free society but in reality provide no real chance for change.
They say reforming the existing laws will serve the purpose.
The law reads that the country's nuclear weapons are a "means of defence" and serve the purpose of "dealing deadly retaliatory blows at the strongholds of aggression until the world is denuclearised".
Europeans, in particular, express sympathy for the argument that both serve the purpose of supplementing low wages, both are implicitly or expressly extortionate in nature and both are paid with the expectation of a quid pro quo.
As a possible solution, experts have long pined for more temporary facilities that could serve the purpose of the games just fine, only to be given the thumbs down by an International Olympic Committee that equates world-class games with world-class facilities.
And though easements created by private individuals are generally not open to the public, they do serve the conservation purpose of keeping the land pristine and open and undisturbed for watersheds and critical flora and fauna.
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She needs to get in touch with Kiin, the manager of Maanta Hotel, who, according to Raxma, a close friend of Cambara's back in Toronto, is well connected and might serve the salient purpose of Cambara's accessing information about the videocassettes and of building local contacts, including the Women's Network, which may help her with all sorts of matters.
It has to serve the broader purpose of helping the economy grow and helping it create jobs.
It might even serve the salutary purpose of frightening the political establishment into working together to prevent a debt crisis.
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Some of these knives are primarily weapons and do not serve the similar purpose as what you would call a small pocketknife.
You must select menus and menu items with a center click instead of a left or right, even though they might serve the same purpose.
Or perhaps the best option, given what's at stake, is for us to find a creative compromise that would serve the immediate purpose of reducing gun violence without registration.
Financial firms come in many shapes and sizes, but they all serve the same purpose: to channel funds from those who wish to save to those who need to borrow.
This kind of technology poses a serious threat to hardware products like gaming consoles and GPUs, which serve the primary purpose of providing necessary computing power to run graphic intensive games.
His health-care ideas, set out a few weeks ago, serve the political purpose of chiding Democrats (Hillary Clinton in particular), who, he says, intend to recast the American medical system on the socialistic European model.
Experts said a test-launch would serve the dual purpose for North Korea of sustaining a confrontation with South Korea and the U.S. as it seeks aid and security guarantees, while also providing a propaganda message of military strength at home.
What hasn't changed is that the early states in the nominating process serve a national purpose by reducing the presidential race to a human scale.
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Its underlying purpose has always been to maintain economic growth across the Asia Pacific, to deal with the consequences of that growth in areas like the environment and social policy, and by doing this, to serve the underlying strategic purpose of preventing a rift forming between Asia and North America.
And here you come up against the most fundamental differences - really only countries you and I know - where the government is elected by the people and its purpose is to serve the needs of the people under a system of liberty and law.
But Professor Robin Hambleton who specialises in City Leadership at the University of the West of England insists councillors do still serve a purpose - even if the top job is now taken.
Stickgold believes that dreams serve a purpose for the brain, allowing it to make necessary emotional connections among new pieces of information.
The American taxing structure, the purpose of which was to serve the people, began instead to serve the insatiable appetite of government.
Here, then, puns seem to serve a purpose beyond the merely frivolous - to impart shades of meaning in an economical fashion, perhaps, or to render lessons and concepts more vivid and memorable to listeners.
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