Lidl Spain and Aldi Sud were not quoted as intending to take any action, while Lidl Germany did not respond.
He has since lost his enthusiasm for popular music, describing his collaborations as "intending to make a filet mignon and getting a Big Mac instead".
But Hawthorne wrote, "When Nature gives a young man no other utilizable faculty, she must be understood as intending him for a soldier".
In the run-up to Election Day, there were no indictments or public pronouncements by the special counsel's office, in keeping with Justice Department guidelines that prosecutors should avoid taking steps that could be perceived as intending to influence the outcome of the vote.
Mr Erdogan and his lieutenants like to project toughness in their rhetoric and their actions, so they should not complain too much if they are portrayed at home and abroad as intending to turn Turkey into an authoritarian state in which all the levers of power are in their hands.
The challenge to the street protests entered a new phase last week when Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami called for the execution of protest leaders at Friday prayers in Tehran in a further move seen as intending to intimidate the opponents of Ahmadinejad.
