Sentence examples for sent to stop from inspiring English sources

You nutty fuckers are all God sent to stop me?

They were part of an international peacekeeping mission sent to stop civil war.

"We come from the future," says Olly Alexander, presumably sent to stop themselves making more records.

The visit was announced two days after Gibraltar's chief minister, Fabian Picardo, demanded that warships be sent to stop Spanish incursions into the Rock's territorial waters.

This is the body whose agents in 1985 were sent to stop the eco-activists of Greenpeace using their ship Rainbow Warrior to interfere with French nuclear tests in the Pacific.

For the first time, soldiers sent to stop protests formed an alliance with lightly armed townspeople, turning their guns on troops and intelligence agents who remained loyal to the government.

They have to pass through a cavernous passageway to fight through the assortment of nightmare creatures that Sauron sends to stop them.

As consul in 218 bc, Publius was sent to Spain to stop the Carthaginian general Hannibal.

He was the recipient of one of a series of writs sent to bishops to stop the persecution of Jews.

Mr. Gorbachev defended his actions this week, saying the troops were sent in to stop pogroms against ethnic Armenians.

("I'd go to hell to hear a good band," Beiderbecke wrote to his brother from boarding school, where his parents sent him to stop his playing music).