Sentence examples for seemed designed to test from inspiring English sources

If it is an article of faith among the current administration that you can't be too tough on welfare claimants for the electorate's taste, work and pensions questions seemed designed to test that thesis to destruction.

It seems designed to test the fortitude of riders.

Quarterback Glenn Foley seems designed to test an aggressive run defense like Baltimore's.

In common with those psychological experiments common at universities in the 1960s – in which, for instance, volunteers might be divided between prisoners and prison guards – some of the setups seem designed to test the prejudices and sensitivities of those enrolled.

They seemed designed to repel hugs.

With simultaneous protests by President Trump's supporters, anti-fascist militants and the proudly outré fans of the rap-metal band Insane Clown Posse, Saturday's lineup of rallies on and around the Mall seemed almost designed to test Americans' capacity for peaceable disagreement.

Plouffe replies that Obama is "making great strides" in many areas of alternative energy, and they've approved dozens of pipelines...and pretty soon there's a bunch of high speed blather that seems basically designed to test Gregory's willpower to keep talking about this.

These tests seem designed to boost students' self-esteem rather than to measure their performance.

Currently hundreds of volunteers are being rushed through a two-day crash course on security procedures, civic duty and the proper way to treat civilians with "dignity and respect"—after which they are posted to guard ministries, oil installations and other public buildings.The 15-question multiple-choice graduation test does not seem designed to fail many of the candidates.

The fun race we had entered seemed to us to have become an endurance contest designed to test how long racers could go without food or sleep while fighting insane obstacles.

Indeed, experiments designed to test the flight and walking capabilities seem to indicate that at least flies expressing the TTD allele R112H aged prematurely.