This simply means that their conscious purpose at the moment they fired was to cause his death.

They knocked in an even rhythm, every fourth knock accented, as if stressing a conscious purpose.

His immediate conscious purposes were probably various.

Without any conscious purpose I ran past Angela, huddled in her chair, through the open french windows, out on to the lawn.

Then again, it was a niche begging to be filled, and none of these creatures did anything with a conscious purpose.

We often read without conscious purpose.

That is, without attributing consciousness or conscious purpose, we view the bacterium as acting on its own behalf in an environment.

If she acted with a conscious purpose to avoid learning the truth, the requirement of knowledge would be satisified.

Animated for a purpose, alive, conscious, but not fleshly.

In any event, he had two conscious purposes now.