Without a war, there are opportunities for the same resources to be applied to more fruitful purposes.

They both told myths about them and applied them to practical purposes.

To give any estimate when atomic energy can be applied to constructive purposes is impossible.

All fines are also applied to charitable purposes, usually a children's charity.

Thus at best, only 40 percent of funds taken in could be applied to such purposes as education, which are used to induce ticket purchases.

Most of the huge savings were applied to social purposes, with education one of the main gainers.

I therefore felt a scruple with regard to paying my money to be applied to such purposes.

Unfortunately, her considerable skills have not always been applied to acceptable purposes.

If these states had applied merely a fraction of their sacrifices to wiser purposes the success would certainly have been greater and more permanent.

Those duties, when applied to such purposes, are most properly imposed according to the bulk or weight of the goods.