"I know they're trying to get rid of sites with no practical purpose, " he says.
Water features have a practical purpose as well: They mask unpleasant sounds like traffic or noisy neighbors.
In addition to being a facilitator of friendships, Facebook also serves a practical purpose for many incoming college freshmen.
The hearty meals have a practical purpose, of course: life on a mountain farm uses up a lot of energy.
Sure, the roof over our heads serves a practical purpose (anyone who has ever slept outdoors can attest to that).
But all this networking and task-forcing serves more than a practical purpose.
It served no immediate practical purpose, but it contained a possibility.
Expensive cars, furnishings and watches, which signify status and success yet also serve a practical purpose, now tend to sell better than luxury that is merely for display.
He makes elaborate constructions from various materials - with a strong preference for wood - as much for the joy of making them, as to further any practical purpose.
"I feel a device like Wii U, with its ability to continue to offer new features and that network connection and the connection to the TV and the interface, really makes it feel that it's more than just a game machine, but something that offers a lot of practical use and practical purpose in the living room, " he said.
This is not an abstract, philosophical, academic point, but a strategic purpose of great practical significance.
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Its purpose is to propose practical public policies that can contribute to peace in the Middle East, and its founding Director is my friend, Martin Indyk, the former U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
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Copying is practical and often done in small batches without a commercial purpose.
Enter the all-purpose tou, the butchers and venders who mastered that practical but scary implement, and the substantial savings in fuel that the quick stir-frying of tou-cut food provided.
And so we're being treated to the absurdity of conservative activist groups such as Americans for Prosperity -- whose sole purpose is to argue for cuts in government spending -- complaining about the practical effects of those very cuts on which they insisted.
The purpose of the project is to bring together the state-of-the-art in scientific and practical knowledge on SSM and to make that knowledge available through a practical training course.
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