Sentence examples for intention to deny from inspiring English sources

We are left to speculate on whether it was Blunkett's intention to deny his chief inspector the dignified solution.

Theresa May has been accused of displaying the "arrogance of a Tudor monarch" over her reported intention to deny a parliamentary vote on Brexit before beginning the process of pulling the UK out of the European Union.

Shortly after Scalia's death was confirmed, Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, announced his intention to deny President Obama, who had nearly a year left in office, the chance to pick a new Justice.

So as soon as Cameron trailed his intention to deny social or council housing to new migrants for up to five years, it was quickly pointed out that local councils already have the power to set their own local residence test, raising doubts about how substantive the proposed change will actually prove.

During the heats, the Australian team of Brooks, Fasala, Delany and Stockwell showed their intention to deny the Americans the gold for the first time at Olympic level.

It was this, says Professor Tim Bale, an expert on the Conservative Party, that meant at the election "Labour may have been a busted flush but it was still able to scare enough voters about the Conservatives' intentions to deny them an overall majority".

It is not the intention here to deny Shauna Hoare agency, or to diminish her responsibility for a horrific crime.

The intention is to deny the rebel armies who mine them the cash to buy weapons.An ex-president of Burundi, Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, was arrested on suspicion of plotting to assassinate the current president, Pierre Buyoya.

While the debris generation sources described are sufficient to degrade valuable orbits, there is also a growing threat of intentional debris generation by enemy combatants or rogue nations whose intention would be to deny their enemies critical space infrastructure.

Richard Humble Exeter Votes in prison It seems counter-intuitive that the Government's intention is to continue to deny convicted prisoners the vote, in defiance of a European human rights ruling.

One might not go so far as to claim that meaning is author's intention (the so-called intentional fallacy), but it is hard to deny that author's intention is at least relevant to meaning.