Sentence examples for seemed designed to prevent from inspiring English sources

Both the constitution and the election laws included specific provisions which seemed designed to prevent her from running for election or holding high office.

A great part of the security process seems designed to prevent the publication of a bleak image of a royal in the court dock.

They are close cousins to the ubiquitous agreements that you encounter on Web sites, and their appearance — the size and type of font used, the overall layout of the document, the tiny text packed in dense blocks — seems designed to prevent easy reading and comprehension.

It all seems designed to prevent any party gaining the dominance that was enjoyed by Pheu Thai, a populist outfit abhorred by Bangkok's coup-backers but which easily won both the general elections it contested.A new constitution may well allow for an unelected prime minister in times of crisis a similar rule kept the army in charge throughout the 1980s.

The very phrase seems designed to prevent us from thinking too hard about what it means.

The NGO committee seems designed to "keep human rights organisations like ours out" and "prevent civil society collaboration" said Maran Turner, Freedom Now's executive director.

Everything seemed designed to limit risk, to restrict imagination, to prevent the possibility that anyone – least of all the audience – might discover anything more in Winterreise than they were being instructed to.

They seemed designed to repel hugs.

Instead of trying to make up for years of denial and neglect, his speech seemed cynically designed to prevent others from showing the leadership he refuses to provide — to derail Congress from imposing a price on emissions of carbon dioxide and the states from regulating emissions on their own.

That's pretty close to what Northwest says about them; the company adds that they "seem designed to try to prevent investors from seeing the strength and progress in NW".

The odd changes in tone here seem similarly designed to prevent us from finding out about her.