original purpose

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This is true for the military as an institution because it politicises a previously apolitical organisation to the detriment of its originalpurpose, war preparedness.
The originalpurpose of location recording was to gather music in and around the city chosen.
Upon convection, the resulting disturbances dramatically disfigured the cavity surface, thus negating the originalpurpose.
At some later time, the pit ceased to be used for its originalpurpose.
Most of them were rapidly rendered obsolete by legislation passed in 1926, and today only a handful still serve their originalpurpose.
But this use of the instrument goes against the grain of its originalpurpose.
Instead of serving its originalpurpose, in such circumstances it can end up as little more than an elevated dustbin for complaints against the state.
Why should such rituals of verification, which have a problematic connection to their overt originalpurpose, have spread so rapidly and deeply throughout society?
This ensures that each hidden unit never forgets its originalpurpose, even though it may eventually play a new role in learning to solve current problems.
Secondly, the two parents used to make a full-sib family are usually genetically diverged because the originalpurpose of the mating is to exploit possible heterosis.
They were very rapidly widened from their originalpurpose.
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