Sentence examples for signed expressly from inspiring English sources

Cepeda, nicknamed Baby Bull, was the first major league player signed expressly to be a designated hitter, according to the Red Sox.

Several Americans have signed with big teams in Europe, but none have ever been signed expressly to fill the role of playmaking goal scorer.

They signed Bush expressly as the first major British female exponent of this genteel genre.

There was no inkling of such distinctions in the contract Professor Chemerinsky signed, which expressly allowed outside activities.

But General Manager Brian Cashman had signed him expressly to retire left-handers, and they batted.312 against him this season.

Neither the British nor the French had lifted a finger in its defense, choosing instead to sign agreements expressly negating the terms of Versailles.

He made a point of disavowing the Thatcherite Tory John Moore's dismissal of relative poverty, pledged to measure it and tackle it, and even prodded his policy brain Oliver Letwin to sign up expressly to Labour's precise poverty targets in the pages of the Guardian.

Ever since 1967, when the US and USSR signed the Outer Space Treaty, expressly banning the use of nuclear weapons in space and establishing a norm of restraint and pacifism to preserve the vital infrastructure of satellites, most of us have come to view space as a neutral zone.

— Mr. Higgins, suspiciously, is the only guest who refused at the beginning of the evening to sign the agreement expressly forbidding murders.

That's because the law repealing the ban that President Obama signed last December did not expressly order the Pentagon to allow openly gay or lesbian troops in the armed forces.

Clients who bought the instruments "signed subscription agreements in which they expressly acknowledged the risks associated with this investment".