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Sample Sentences for ために
日本は収支を合わせるためには貿易に頼らなければならない。
Japan must depend on foreign trade to make ends meet.
フットボールの試合は、悪天候のために、延期された。
The football game was postponed on account of bad weather.
迷子の子供のために、私たちは森を探してあげた。
We searched the woods for the missing child.
あなたのためにやったわけではありません。
I didn't do it for you.
好奇心は虚栄以外のなにものでもない。ほとんどの場合、話すためにだけ、人は知ることを欲する。
Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.
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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.