Sentence examples for designed to crush the from inspiring English sources
Maybe she could "lose" the Privy Seal if he comes up with legislative plans clearly designed to crush the corporation?
One tableau recreated a mass hanging – designed to crush the anti-colonial resistance – complete with wooden gallows and dangling corpses.
Just as reconstruction began, in 2009, both Diyarbakir mayors were indicted in a dragnet, apparently designed to crush the region's Kurdish political leadership.
And I have been reminded that UK ferry ports (not flying – birds do it better) are designed to crush the souls of all trudging through them, including the blind drunk passengers dressed in wacky hats.
Over 300 species are found here, from the spectacular peacock bass (called tucunarce locally) to tambaqui, a delicious, slab-sided fish with massive jaws designed to crush the fruits and seeds which it feeds on exclusively.
Though it is not designed to crush the thickest ice, the Healy is longer and heavier not smaller than the United States' two heavy icebreakers, the Polar Sea and the Polar Star.
According to the FBI's Director, James B. Comey, the operations were designed to "crush these pimps" and show that children are not for sale.
Kathy Yates, of Andrew Grove Solicitors, said: "The regime at the school appeared to be designed to crush and intimidate the children, many of whom were already disadvantaged.
The Communists said they would support the new government.See articleOne year after launching a military offensive designed to crush separatist rebels in the province of Aceh, Indonesia's government lifted martial law there.Constitutional talks began in Myanmar, under the close scrutiny of the ruling military junta.
Originally built in the 1830s, the Old Spanish Sugar Mill at De Leon Springs State Park in Volusia County was designed to crush sugar cane using a water wheel and the power of the springhead that today shoots forth 19 million gallons of water a day.
It is a 'study of the repressive dynamics designed to crush any hope of democratic change' (x) that looks to use a parallel with the Mamluks', who ruled Egypt from 1250 to 1517, to understand how a military elite in particular were able to 'hijack the post-colonial independent states and establish their military dictatorships' (p.125).
