Sentence examples for measures were intended from inspiring English sources

But, either way, these measures were intended to stem the rise in market prices, rather than to contribute to it.

The measures were intended to plug the holes that had suddenly seemed to open up in America's defences.

Financial analysts said all these measures were intended to assure shareholders that the company's problems were over, making the auction house more attractive for a potential takeover.

Senior officials said the measures were intended to save a decade-old policy of pegging the value of the peso to the dollar and to avert a devaluation.

Ministers have privately assured Britain's biggest bookmaker that attempts by councils to block the spread of betting shops would be frustrated by the coalition's controversial planning changes, despite claiming in public that the measures were intended to revitalise high streets.

Ministers pointed out there were more than 600,000 vacancies in the economy at any one time, saying that the new measures were intended to help unemployed people fill them.

Supporters say the measures are intended to restrict voter fraud.

These measures are intended to clean up a corrupt judiciary.

Both measures are intended to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS.

The president's critics say other measures are intended to weaken Ecuador's judiciary.

The buyouts and other measures are intended to help NPR break even in the fiscal year that begins in October 2014.