Sentence examples for meant to commit from inspiring English sources

In other words, the defendant could not have meant to commit a crime, because professionals said the transaction was appropriate.

Mr. Varick admits he was the getaway driver, though he says he never meant to commit robbery.

Mr. Edwards's campaign advisers said he had not meant to commit himself for the general election, but the discrepancy added fuel to a debate over why he had abruptly embraced public financing after long signaling that he would not.

According to news reports, Mr. Alvarez and his defense lawyers argued that he had had no intention of hurting others, and had meant to commit suicide, his despondency worsened by an addiction to methamphetamine.

In March, a Tax Court Judge ruled that a UPS driver could be hit with back taxes after the three-year limit had expired because his tax preparer had claimed fraudulent charitable and other deductions on his return even though the IRS never asserted the truck driver himself meant to commit fraud.

Suspect tells me Lincoln Co. deputy was just in the way, and after all this he meant to commit suicide by cop.

It is not entirely clear whether, in positing primitive joint commitments, Gilbert means to commit herself to the ontological thesis that there exist group agents over and above the constituent individual agents.

What does it mean to commit an act of piracy?

At stake is what it means to commit oneself: to a person, a place, a moral imperative.

This position will have gone down very well in Tbilisi, but do we really mean to commit ourselves to an all-out war against the Russian Federation if something like this happens again?

In Melville's last novel, the handsome young sailor Billy Budd blesses Captain Vere as Vere hangs him, in a beautifully staged pageant, for a murder he knows Billy did not mean to commit.