Sentence examples for principal intentions from inspiring English sources

History buffs can already answer those questions, so it's to Robert Harris's considerable credit that he wrings some suspense from them, producing a fact-based novel that's deliciously juicy and fleetly paced — maybe too fleetly, all told: the comically foreboding title foreshadows Harris's principal intentions, which are to make you gasp, titter and turn the pages.

One of the principal intentions of the rebels was to capture Sarrail himself.

Its principal intention is to offend the sensibilities of Republicans.

Clearly, the rendering of exquisitely accurate psychological nuance is not McCracken's principal intention.

A principal intention, however, was to send a sharp signal to North Korea to dismantle its nuclear weapons program, they said.

To rescue some fragments of the English poetic tradition from academic oblivion might not have been Mr. Davies's principal intention in making "Of Time and the City".

To render each part of the human form from its most characteristic viewpoint was the principal intention of the artist to show what he knew was there, not simply what he could see from one perspective.

"The principal intention for forming this new coalition has been to establish a body perceived as truly representative of the Syrian insurgency," Mr Lister said, adding that the new grouping "should prove a landmark moment for the revolution".

Though supported by conservationists, the agreement's principal intention is not to conserve this new fish habitat, formed by the receding of polar ice as the world warms up.

The principal intention, set out in a US Stock Exchange registration statement, is to sell enough shares to new investors to pay off an as yet unspecified portion of United's £423m debts, which the Glazers loaded on to the club when they bought it in 2005.

The bent notes blues guitarists play on their instruments are unusual in western music; the principal intention of the bent notes, achieved by pulling on the strings sideways, is, surely, to approximate the voice, and the peculiar plangency of blues singing in particular.