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professed purpose

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The professed purpose of last weekend's raid into Gaza was to kill or capture Palestinian terrorists involved in firing rockets into Israel, to capture or destroy equipment and to gather intelligence.
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The author's way of tracking down racial types indicates that he probably deems it more worthwhile to recognize realists' "necessity" for racial caricature than to censure the discrepancy between their professed purposes and such unbecoming practices.
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