Sentence examples for designed to scare off from inspiring English sources

In some areas loud noises are part of a ritual activity designed to scare off the moon's assailant.

Everything Ecstatic opens with a track seemingly designed to scare off any new fans that Rounds brought in, and deliver Four Tet back to the wonks.

Indeed, the producers' lawyers continued, Mr. Thibodeau sent out "false and malicious email, each one designed to scare off the Angel Investor from providing a financial lifeline to the show".

Five minutes later came the first plates of an hour-long, revolving buffet, which included deep-fried kidneys, stewed pig intestine, sweet and sour liver, a delicate beef tendon and anise broth, and — Sietsema's favorite — "crispy colorectal," a dish whose name seems designed to scare off the faint of heart.

Regulators are investigating why Syncrude Canada -- the country's largest tar sands producer -- failed to deploy a system designed to scare off waterfowl.

Such a cartoonish show of force is clearly designed to scare off potential competitors before they even get in the ring.

Using prose designed to scare the pants off Middle America, Rifkin writes that computers wreaking havoc on today's workplaces are different from the technologies that shook previous generations.

Terms like "the community method", "Coreper" or "co-decision" seem almost designed to scare people off.

Israel then deploys a "roof-knocking missile," a weapon designed to scare people off roofs in preparation for an attack.

Given the clarity of the Plyler ruling, it seems clear that it was designed to scare parents off enrolling their children in Alabama schools, which means, of course, to scare undocumented families out of Alabama.

BIn Salman's actions on Saturday seemed to be designed to scare them all off.