Sentence examples for avowed object from inspiring English sources

The avowed object of the act was to prevent the destruction of the oysters by the use of particular instruments in taking them.

for the avowed object of thwarting our policy and hampering our power, limiting our greatness and checking the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.

O'Sullivan was protesting European meddling in American affairs, especially by France and England, which he said were acting for the avowed object of thwarting our policy and hampering our power, limiting our greatness and checking the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.

One of Drake's avowed objects was the search for Terra Australis.

They organized and were the active members of secret societies, known as the Katipunan, &c., whose avowed objects were to advance the cause of 'independencia,' in any and all ways, and under this high-sounding phrase they have made use of every means forbidden to them by the laws of war.

The avowed aim is to increase competition and encourage entrepreneurship.

Their avowed aim is to keep it there permanently.

The right view in our opinion is that it takes nothing from the lawful object avowed in the same resolution and rightly inferable from the earlier one.

And the manifest, indeed the avowed and admitted, object of seeking such relief, was to tie the hands of the state so that it could not in any manner or by any mode of proceeding, in its own courts, test the validity of the statutes and orders in question.

It is not as if an inadmissible or unlawful object were affirmatively and definitely avowed.

Some members said they objected to the perennial organizer's avowed goal: to fight for a democratic China.