Sentence examples for envisaged from inspiring English sources

It has nowhere near the pulling power of tractor beams envisaged in science fiction, but the first long-distance optical tractor beam has so far moved particles one fifth of a millimetre in diameter a distance of up to 20cm.

All this activity was approved in the UK by a subsection of a law which was introduced in 2000 – the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) – a time when the agencies could not have envisaged being able to conduct surveillance on such a massive scale, when buffering was not even possible.

He says: "Going to a gay club in London was definitely something I'd never envisaged doing".

"I've envisaged myself playing in this team before.

If, in our view, a genuine and meaningful response is forthcoming to Monday's statement from the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning the way will then be clear for the establishment of the political Institutions envisaged in the Belfast Agreement.

It was originally envisaged that YouView would be used as the future brand and technology for public service broadcasting, eventually replacing less advanced Freeview which is in more than 13 million homes.

Spero summed it up herself via an image that recurs across the Codex – a disembodied head with a grotesque phallic tongue protruding from its mouth: the organ of speech envisaged partly as a weapon and partly as a gag.