A North Carolina lawyer named Phil Evans organized a group called the First Colony Foundation to raise money for this purpose.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Israel says the purpose is to keep weapons out of Gaza and to prevent rocket fire into the Jewish state.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

Democrats charged that the real purpose of the law was to keep radical Republican state governments in power.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

Its purpose was to bring the United States closer to its goal of landing astronauts on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Gemini's purpose was to bring the United States closer to its goal of landing astronauts on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

He could not be sure of their support if he declared that the purpose of the war was to free the slaves.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

The purpose of the trip is to buy the hand-made products of local women and place new orders.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

Its purpose is to provide for the educational, health and social needs of the women and their communities.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

The purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska bill reportedly was to settle differences among opposing railroad interests in the area.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

Their purpose was to explore some of the problems of manned flight, during short periods,in lower space.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

The purpose was to see if the country's nineteen largest banks could survive losses in the event that the recession got even worse.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

They believed the South wanted to win Mexican territory for the purpose of spreading and strengthening slavery.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

The hot line had an important purpose: to prevent accidental war between the two competitors during the period known as the Cold War.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

Spokeswoman Lenore Ostrowsky says the purpose is to identify if discrimination is taking place in schools.

VOA: special.2009.11.19