Sentence examples for intention of drawing from inspiring English sources

In fact, I asked the Guardian to do that, with the intention of drawing a line under the matter.

Vologeses' reign was also marked by a decided reaction against Hellenism; he built Vologesias near Ctesiphon with the intention of drawing to the new town the inhabitants and trade of the Greek city Seleucia on the Tigris.

In designing an ultramodern building for a modernising China, he has no intention of drawing on that country's antique design traditions, but on its young industrial crafts, technologies and engineering processes.

Marbury drove with the intention of drawing defenders and making a pass but lost his dribble, and a Spurs player touched the ball before it went out of bounds with 4.4 seconds left.

The world's most famous graffitist is believed to have arrived in town over the weekend, with the intention of drawing attention to his oeuvre at a crucial moment: members of the Academy will this week vote in the election that will decide whether his film Exit Through the Gift Shop wins the 2011 Oscar for Best Documentary.

The prize itself was instigated by the journalist Rhoda Koenig and the Literary's Review's editor, Auberon Waugh, with the intention of drawing "attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it".

The narrow wording was intended to make it clear that the administration had no intention of being drawn into to the wider Syrian civil war.

It was clear Obama had no intention of being drawn into rash action or any kind of dangerous confrontation with Putin over Ukraine.

Israel's Channel 2 television reported that unnamed Syrian officials had said they had no intention of being drawn into a war on Israel's timetable or terms.

"The president's immigration shift," he writes, "confirms he has no intention of getting drawn into a fight over the working class white voters of campaign lore, but instead changing the composition of the electorate like he did four years ago".

It has no intention of being drawn into such a conflict again, and it does not see Russia as a strategic threat.