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.
Such a tax would help to remind our elected officials that the purpose of elected office is to serve the public, not themselves.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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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Ms. GROSS: I think what the law has helped us to do is to have a more laser focus on making sure that the programs that are in place in schools are really serving the purpose that they need to serve.
The purpose of this organization is to serve as an accelerator in building meaningful relationships.
Because when you realize that the purpose of your business is to serve your customers , you will not only stop offending your prospects, you will gain more customers at a lower cost.
Middle management is usually swimming in projects calculated to serve the quantitative goals of the organization, not its brand purpose.
American officials insist that the resolution has to be tough or it will serve no purpose.
Stickgold believes that dreams serve a purpose for the brain, allowing it to make necessary emotional connections among new pieces of information.
But lists like this, besides providing an ego-check, do serve a purpose: they give us the chance to put the slow weeks before the holidays to get cozy with the thesaurus button (Shift-F7 for those not in-the-know) and rework out professional paperwork before the new year comes calling.
And these devices serve a good purpose: easy and quick access to the web so that you can check emails, read and watch movies.
But there is also a strong suspicion that, even if the secret accounts were at first intended to serve a relatively virtuous purpose, they may have been abused as time went on.
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