Sentence examples for intended essentially from inspiring English sources

The merger had been intended, essentially, to enable the company to sell stock in a venture to exploit a $1 billion, 25-year diamond concession in Congo, awarded to Oryx in an area guarded by Zimbabwean soldiers allied to the Congolese government in its battle with rebel forces.

This is the intention to deceive in lying (although, strictly speaking, deception is foreseen and not intended ("Essentially, under this definition, you are only lying if you expect that you will be successful in deceiving someone about what you believe" (Fallis 2009, 45)).

They suggested that one attack, building on the president's argument that Mr. Romney intends essentially to privatize Medicare, would contend that the Republican ticket's next target would be another immensely popular program, Social Security.

It was intended to essentially end direct American combat activity like missile strikes while remaining supportive of NATO's efforts.

And in the last three decades there have indeed been several attempts — by federal judges — to devise a rule system that is intended to essentially protect judges from themselves.

Public inquiries should, as was always intended, be essentially creatures of public administration, and not be regarded as a means of pinning the blame on individual parties.

Altman is rapidly building out an economy within Silicon Valley that seems intended to essentially supplant Silicon Valley — a guild of hyper-capitalist entrepreneurs who will help one another fix the broken world.

These intellectuals are vital to confer internal legitimacy on a process that is essentially intended to appear like reform.

The two hours of not very original vituperation had, as Osborne intended, shocked the essentially middle-class audience.

It was intended to be essentially revenue-neutral, though it did shift some of the tax burden from individuals to businesses.

This fiendishly complex enactment is essentially intended to set out the circumstances in which secret surveillance activities undertaken by the state must be treated as lawful.