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Governor's Island is a national historic landmark district long used for military purposes.

However, as Amy Edmondson of Harvard points out, organisations increasingly use "team" as a verb rather than a noun: they form teams for specific purposes and then quickly disband them.

In the early 1990s, the World wide Web was developed, in large part, for commercial purposes.

Former George Washington University president Stephen Trachtenberg estimates that a typical college uses its facilities for academic purposes a little more than half the calendar year.

A new study from michigan State University, though, argues that all students—including high achievers—see a decline in performance when they browse the Internet during class for non-academic purposes.

But there is also a place in a young life for noble purposes that include a dedication to the broader society, a love of country and an aspiration to make their own leadership contributions.

Although birds use their feathers for flight, some of their feathers are for other purposes.

In 1963 the UN set up the World Food Programme, one of whose purposes is to relieve worldwide starvation.

In addition, their arms that are unnecessary for moving around are freed for other purposes, like throwing stones or signaling.

Machines with specific purposes are associated with living things partly because they might be able to prevent themselves from being destroyed.

Norbert Wiener, who founded the field of cybernetics, put it this way: if we use, to achieve our purposes, a mechanical agency with whose operation we cannot effectively interfere.

One of the purposes of the annual pony drift is to control the number of ponies.

The issue of voluntary part-time relates to Obamacare because one of the main purposes was to allow people to get insurance outside of employment.

within the complex social structure of the scientific community, researchers make discoveries; editors and reviewers act as gatekeepers by controlling the publication process; other scientists use the new finding to suit their own purposes; and finally, t