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Sample Sentences for ために
公共の福祉のために働く。
I work for public welfare.
それで、過去の知識が、その知識に関するだいたい適切と思われる想定と混ざり合って、五感によって提供される情報を増大させるために利用されるのである。
And so, knowledge from the past, mixed up with assumptions about that knowledge, which may be more or less appropriate, is used to augment information provided by the senses.
彼は科学者になるために一生懸命勉強した。
He studied very hard to become a scientist.
寒い天候のために植物は芽を出せないかもしれない。
The cold weather may keep the plants from budding.
やせるために食事を抜く人がいる。
In order to lose weight some people skip meals.
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In a previous example containing 為に that went like this;彼女は学校に通うために自転車を買いました would it not be better to write something like 彼女は学校に通うように自転車を買いました since the bicycle was bought with the intention of attending school? As far as i know ように would translate more to "so that" than 為に, the latter giving me the sense that she had bought the bike explicitly for its speceficly intentioned purpose to getting students to school.