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Examples of in order that in a Sentence
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Much of the $1.3 billion awarded Tuesday will be allotted to EB subcontractors across the country in order that work can begin on components such as nuclear reactors and turbine generators.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2024
But since 2020, the governor has granted clemency to 15 prisoners serving life sentences — supposedly without the possibility of parole — in order that they be paroled or at least be given a chance for parole.
—Ron Matthias, The Mercury News, 20 Apr. 2024
My moral object, therefore, is to attempt to direct the efforts of men toward the clear appreciation of reality, exposing the illusory in order that man may realize his creative potentialities.
—Andrew Aoyama, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2024
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
—Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 7 Apr. 2023
The only real challenge is hiking production fast enough of a specialized product that didn’t exist a few months ago in order that everybody in the world can receive it.
—WSJ, 21 May 2021
There was tentative agreement to adopt the agency filing system, but the recommendations provided for waiting until the materials of all divisions could be reviewed in order that the manual could be adapted for the entire office rather than this one division.
—Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
Social media represent the most expansive and sophisticated form of mass access to the electorate that politicians have ever had; which creates profound social responsibilities for these platforms in order that the delicate balance of power between politicians and media gatekeepers not be upset.
—Philip M. Napoli, Wired, 2 July 2020
But this requires some caution in order that House Republicans do not simply act as defense attorneys for Donald Trump and the January 6 defendants.
—The Editors, National Review, 25 Nov. 2022
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First Known Use
1711, in the meaning defined above
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“In order that.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20order%20that. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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