Sentence examples for seemed designed to protect from inspiring English sources

Legal niceties seemed designed to protect the high street banks and frustrate potential competition.

Gbehanzin commissioned portraits too, but these seem designed to protect him from his fate.

This arbitrarily restrictive definition seems designed to protect her novels from being relegated to a genre still shunned by hidebound readers, reviewers and prize-awarders.

They seemed designed to repel hugs.

Although it may seem to be designed to protect our children, it could possibly cause our children to lose faith in all of America's basic rights.

O'Malley, a former Maryland governor, has been critical of the Democratic debate schedule, which he says seems to be designed to protect former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

That seems to be designed to protect voters," said Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. Kennedy said he did not understand how Texas could justify the "huge disparity" that results from greatly different numbers of actual voters in state Senate districts.

From inadequate risk models and low tsunami walls before the disaster to reassurances afterward that seem designed to placate rather than protect people, operators and proponents of nuclear power have squandered the public trust.

The letter from DST Global's management team to its limited partners seems designed to assuage investors that DST will protect their identities despite coming under scrutiny itself.

"This hardly seems like an approach earnestly designed to protect the integrity of elections and to ensure that eligible voters have their votes counted," Mr. Detzner wrote in a letter on Wednesday to T. Christian Herren Jr., the chief of the Justice Department's voting section.

A creative person's need to believe in the value of what he is creating is axiomatic; Logan's belief in whatever project he is engaged in approaches euphoric faith, protecting him, as it seems designed to do, from the nibbling nuisance of self-doubt.