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Sample Sentences for ために
失った時間を取り戻すために、私たちはいそいだ。
We hurried to make up for the lost time.
彼らはあなたのために快くそれをするでしょう。
They are willing to do it for you.
彼らは自分たちの新しいコンセプトを広めるためにあるコミュニケーションポリシーを採用した。
They implemented a communication policy so as to promote their new concept.
台風のために休校になった。
The typhoon accounted for the closing of school.
他の生徒についてゆくために一生懸命に勉強しなければならない。
I have to study hard to keep up with the other students.
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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.