Sentence examples for is intended as a means from inspiring English sources

At a time of turmoil in the Arab world, California is a reminder that democracy, like capitalism, can take many different forms, and that it is intended as a means to an end, the end being liberty.

Bridge seems to be a case where the bad outcome is intended as a means of saving the five.

If the bad outcome is a means to the good end, then it is intended (as a means), and is not merely foreseen.

The hotline, installed in 1971, is intended as a means of direct communication at a time of high tension, but is also used to co-ordinate the passage of people and goods through the heavily-fortified Demilitarized Zone.

Milbank makes it sound like the proposed commission is intended as a means of bypassing the tendency of lawmakers to avoid "tough choices".

This early start is intended as a means of preventing AKI in elective CABG patients.

It was intended as a means of asserting queer presence and identities.

Adopted by the Society of Watchmakers, a Geneva trade body founded in 1873, it was intended as a means of distinguishing movements finished in the canton from poorly made imitations.

But sometimes, like quoting a lyric from a song or a line from a play, it's intended as a means of summing up the essence of the set.

It was intended as a means of compensating historic buildings for the potential financial losses stemming from their landmark status (which severely restricts alterations), and allowing the city to skirt any financial responsibility itself.

Insofar as "The Prince" was intended as a means to an end, however, it was a failure: there is no evidence that Giuliano de' Medici ever read it, and the Florentine successor to whom Machiavelli eventually dedicated the book, Giuliano's despotic nephew Lorenzo, was said to have preferred the gift of a pair of hounds.