Purposeful

He says that Canadians should employ what he calls purposeful spending. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The only operational definition I know of for "purposeful" is "utilizing negative feedback to approach a set point"; I can help you see how that definition is operational if you'd like. ❋ Unknown (2008)

She dances, or rather engages in purposeful walking with one big dramatic drop into his arms, and a shirt tug. ❋ Lisa De Moraes (2010)

But his most recent two near-future books have a very different tack: highlighting people using technology in purposeful, directed ways with very human expressive motives: making movies and playing political cat-and-mouse. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Research indicates that children who engage in purposeful play and structured activities acquire a range of skills and abilities that provide a strong foundation for later learning and development. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Could it be that Obama is engaging in "purposeful inaction?" ❋ Unknown (2009)

I think 'human thoughts and considerations can be and are purposeful' is one of those assumptions. ❋ Unknown (2008)

However the fact that many living systems can obviously still modify themselves in purposeful, intelligent response to internal and environmental challenges can be viewed by non materialists as evidence against materialism. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Behe's discussion that life, the moon and the universe in general "can be viewed" as purposeful is obviously Behe's philosophical outlook (one he is certainly entitled to have). ❋ Unknown (2007)

In many tales, the Jewish family is depicted as false, destructive, and destructible, in purposeful contrast to the true and loving but equally fragile Christian family. ❋ Unknown (2005)

In some classes I made my students write children's stories to get them back to the source of the story as a form, to relearn the archetypes, to find the basic plots that suffuse all works of fiction, to use objects carefully, and only a few, to write in short purposeful sentences. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Adoption studies and twin studies do not entail the purposeful manipulation of either specific genes or specific environmental factors. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Sharing similar beliefs set the backdrop for a friendship with the man I would come to know as purposeful, a bit naughty, with an easy enthusiasm and genuine concern. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Perhaps Mike Gene's front loading concept does not predict them but they are consistent with the idea that their value lies with long term purposeful planning. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They have different connotations in common usage, but at core they refer to the same kind of entity–namely a purposeful entity behind whatever we observe, whether we call it “design” or “creation.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Many of us strive for connectedness, and like the idea of purposeful travel. ❋ Unknown (2009)