Examples of 'purposive' in a sentence

Meaning of "purposive"

Purposive (adjective): Intentional or serving a specific purpose, often used to describe actions or behaviors that are done with a particular goal in mind
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  • Serving a particular purpose; adapted to a given purpose, especially through natural evolution.
  • Done or performed with a conscious purpose or intent.
  • Pertaining to purpose, as reflected in behaviour or mental activity.
  • Pertaining to or demonstrating purpose.

How to use "purposive" in a sentence

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Functionalization is achieved by treating discourse as a purposive act.
Purposive behavior in animals and men.
These studies make use of purposive sampling.
Purposive and snowballing sampling techniques were used to recruit participants.
The modernization of a machine or a plant is a purposive investing.
That is neither purposive nor proportionate.
Closely allied to the beautiful is the purposive.
This may be described as a purposive approach to the problem.
That means that decisions cannot be purposive.
The selection process combines purposive and threshold sampling.
The most common type of subordination is the purposive.
I married and purposive life.
Purposive sampling was used to identify respondents for the study.
The interviewees were selected by purposive sampling.
Be seen as purposive in the sense that criminals are to be sent to prison.

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There are several types of purposive samples.
The purposive approach is the more controversial of the available interpretive tools.
Existence at last seemed very purposive.
Probability vs purposive sampling.
Such proposed regulation should be purposive.
Canadian courts have clearly adopted a purposive approach to equality guarantees.
A purposive interpretation of s.
The participants were recruited by purposive sampling.
This being has been created by purposive human action but exists by processes of growth.
This heating can be conducted by any purposive method.
Only in a purposive manner.
Perhaps the answer lies in our nature as purposive beings.
The sampling of projects was purposive in nature and not based on random sampling.
Most likely they are conducting a purposive sample.
The purposive element is not necessary for an act to qualify as cruel or inhumane.
Data was collected using purposive sampling.
One way of doing a purposive sample is to find people who share particular characteristics.
The respondents are chosen through purposive sampling.
It is from such rational and purposive action that the works of civilization have developed.
The base may be further complicated by ambulative or purposive morphemes.
Interviews elicited incidents of both purposive seeking and accidental encountering of health information.
The sampling method was purposive.
This controlled and subjectively directed purposive ride raised her imagination to its full potency.
Expressed by a personality which knows itself in its purposive unity.
Example of purposive sampling for households Use purposive sampling if households differ significantly.
Based on your research is purposive.
Discrimination under the Convention includes purposive or intentional discrimination and discrimination in effect.
The participants have been selected through purposive sampling.
The Law on Holidays provides for purposive holidays like maternity leave and child care leave.
Survey participants were identified through a combination of purposive and snowballing.
Purposive and Proportional.
For this reason it is also referred to as a purposive clause or a clause of purpose.
What is advocated as conscious planning is in fact the elimination of conscious purposive action.
Aristotle and the Schoolmen attributed these purposive adjustments to the appetitus sensitivus.
What is called conscious planning is precisely the elimination of conscious purposive action.

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