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• a  serving as or indicating the existence of a purpose or goal
• s  having meaning through having an aim
  led a happy purposeful life

• For sheer Frankenstein wattage, the purposeful creation of these animal monsters has no equal.
• In vitro fertilization ("test-tube babies") involves the purposeful creation of multiple embryos, knowing and intending that most of them either will die after implantation in the .
• For nine days in Des Moines' KRNT Theater, the 600 delegates to the 17th biennial convention of the United Lutheran Church in America gathered for nine purposeful hours a day.

• purposeless

News & Articles

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• Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals again rules no discrimination in Jason Sharp capital murder case
  The court of criminal appeals said today that it reviewed the full record of the case and the briefs filed before concluding "that the trial court did not clearly err in holding that Sharp failed to demonstrate that the State engaged in purposeful discrimination."
  June 14, 2013 - The Huntsville Times
• 6-13-13 Waconia Patriot Letters to the Editor
  Is current administration purposefully failing us? To the editor: “Government at best is a necessary evil, at its worst, … The post 6-13-13 Waconia Patriot Letters to the Editor appeared first on Sun Patriot .
  June 13, 2013 - Waconia Patriot
• 'Divergent' First Look: Theo James as 'Four'
  By Brent Lang LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Theo James looks purposeful and ripped in a new teaser image from "Divergent," the dystopian fantasy that Lionsgate hopes will be another "Hunger Games." James, a relative unknown, landed the lead role of Four in the adaptation of Veronica Roth's bestselling young-adult novel. The film is set to be released on March 21, 2014, is roughly the same slot in ...
  June 10, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• President Bush in Deutsche Welle
  In leaders like Berlusconi and Brown, Merkel and Sarkozy, I see a commitment to a powerful and purposeful Europe that advances the values of liberty within its borders and beyond,Bush said.
• Hillary Rodham Clinton in guardian.co.uk
  Sen. Biden will be a purposeful and dynamic vice president who will help Sen. Obama both win the presidency and govern this great country,Clinton said in the statement.
• Robert Gates in Los Angeles Times
  Asked if the military junta there is guilty of genocide, Gates said, "I tend to see genocide more as a purposeful elimination of people, this is more akin, in my view, to criminal neglect."