It has to serve the broader purpose of helping the economy grow and helping it create jobs.
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.
Livni has remained silent for three years even though it has been clear for five years that the West's attempts to cut a deal with Teheran serve no purpose other than to provide the Iranians time to develop their nuclear arsenal.
Such a tax would help to remind our elected officials that the purpose of elected office is to serve the public, not themselves.
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.
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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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.
Only then are you ready to design slides that serve their sole purpose: to illustrate the key ideas.
Both the behavior of the forces on the ground and of their commanders in Cairo indicates that if the Egyptian military is permitted to deploy its forces to the Sinai, those forces will not serve any helpful purpose for Israel.
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The various Arab laws and regulations have generally stipulated, just as in the Western system, that attorneys are agents of the judges, and that their purpose is to serve justice and the public welfare.
The personal stories of the displaced women living in the Bogota area, however, demonstrate how difficult it could be for the law to serve this purpose.
"These shows that are able to be so bold and graphic and uncompromising, unflinching, stand to serve that purpose and be the sort of receptacle for all that collective anxiety, " he said.
And I will pledge myself in the traditional words to serve the Lord during the day with as much gladness and purpose as I possibly can, to work to improve the world around me.
Are these motions (which are never debated, but which MPs can sign up to, to signal their support), just "parliamentary graffiti", or do they serve a purpose useful enough to justify the expense.
Undisclosed sources have indicated that Russian engineers are expanding the Syrian ports of Tartus and Latakia to serve a more significant strategic purpose, "The possibility of basing aircraft carriers and missile cruisers there is foreseen, " the source told Russian newspaper, Izvestia.
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Even if you are a staunch proponent of U.S. biofuel policy, it is hard to argue that the current subsidy on grain ethanol serves the purpose it was designed to serve.
In some cases, as in our programs to backstop money market mutual funds, the purpose of the facility is to serve, once again in classic central bank fashion, as liquidity provider of last resort.
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.
Members of our Armed Forces hold themselves to the highest standards and set an example of responsibility to one another and to the country that should inspire all Americans to serve a purpose greater than themselves.
Photography's purpose was to serve the state and to make sure every Soviet citizen looked pleased as punch to be living under communism.
In both instances, there was an effort to have the material appear to be non-partisan on its face yet serve as a partisan political message for the purpose of building the Republican Party.
They instructed me in no uncertain terms that they were committed to social justice and since I had spent my career in finance -- where outcomes were always unequal, unjust, and served no purpose but to serve the rich -- they were convinced I could not simultaneously believe that the market and social justice were in any way compatible.
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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The purpose of the DOE Advanced Technology Manufacturing Program was to serve as a catalyst for accelerating sustainable transport technology, which is in the best interests of all Americans and ultimately people throughout the world.
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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.
Amtrak has stumbled along for almost 40 years, and outside a few corridors that can sustain heavy traffic and can make a contribution to energy security, it only exists as a wispy network of long distance trains that serve no other purpose than to suck the taxpayer dry.
Apparently, Eximbank is seeking to create "special purpose entities" in the Russian oil and gas sector to serve as obligors for these credits.
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.
We must keep in mind that the purpose of business is to serve the interests of the work force, not the consumers to whom we will eventually try to sell our products.
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