Sentence examples for intent on restricting from inspiring English sources

Invoking cold-war language, the general counsel for another chemical company suggested that Carson was a front for "sinister influences" intent on restricting pesticide use in order to reduce American food supplies to the levels of the Eastern bloc.

While Reagan embraced conservative values intent on restricting access to abortions and defining marriage as an institution between a man and a woman, Obama essentially used a wrecking ball to destroy the "family values" conservatism of the 1970s and 1980s through supporting increased access to abortions and later same-sex marriage.

The eating inventory quantified dietary restraint (the intent to restrict energy intake) and disinhibition (the tendency to overeat) (8).

Just last month it gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965, placing a nearly impossible burden on individual citizens to show that state officials had invidious intent in restricting the opportunity to vote.

The accused officer is on restricted duties.

Turn on restricted phone.

A president intent on pressing Congress to restrict access to high-powered guns could hardly find a more seasoned figure to take charge of the effort.

Avoiding both UMNO and the MCA, they believed that while UMNO and Malay extremists were intent on extending Malay privileges and restricting Chinese rights, the MCA was too "selfish", and could not be relied on.

He is intent on avoiding another one.

But China has not made any public statements about those agreements and appears intent on emphasizing its control of the situation and restricting diplomatic access to the crew.

They show how hope was sucked out of the system by the former justice secretary Chris Grayling, intent on introducing more punitive measures, reducing incentives and restricting the previously successful release on temporary licence scheme.