Sentence examples for raids were designed from inspiring English sources
The raids were designed to seize and confiscate documents believed to contain intelligence on security matters.
Civil liberties lawyers said the raids were designed as pre-emptive strikes to stifle dissent, but the sheriff's department said that they were taking precautions to guard against a group who they believed was intent on dangerous behavior.
The study shows that for every "leader" killed in the raids, eight other people also died, although the raids were designed to be a precise weapon aimed at decapitating the Taliban on the battlefield by removing their commanders.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) — the opposition party, which tends to represent more conservative views — however, said the raids were designed to lock up its leaders and activists, with 2,100 reportedly arrested.
The raids are designed as a deterrent to discourage more Central American border crossers, immigration analysts told VICE News, along the lines of DHS's use of family immigrant detention.
Another American official emphasized that the commando raids in Libya and Somalia were designed to capture the intended targets, not to kill them with Predator drone missiles, the signature counterterrorism weapon of the Obama administration.
Not unreasonably, historians have associated this with the Scottish wars, seeing this proliferation as a direct response to Scottish raiding, and assuming that these castles were designed and built solely to perform a defensive military function.
These houses abandoned the defensible curtain walls of castles, being fortified refuges that were designed to outlast a raid, rather than a sustained siege.
Unprotected cruisers had little or no armour, carried fairly light guns, and were designed primarily for scouting, patrolling, and raiding.
The helicopters to be used in the raid had been designed to be quiet and to have low radar visibility.
The Raid mode was designed so that players could "bring the game to their friends house and enjoy it with friends face to face, as they talk".
