Sentence examples for the principal intention from inspiring English sources

To render each part of the human form from its most characteristic viewpoint was the principal intention of the artist to show what he knew was there, not simply what he could see from one perspective.

"The principal intention for forming this new coalition has been to establish a body perceived as truly representative of the Syrian insurgency," Mr Lister said, adding that the new grouping "should prove a landmark moment for the revolution".

The bent notes blues guitarists play on their instruments are unusual in western music; the principal intention of the bent notes, achieved by pulling on the strings sideways, is, surely, to approximate the voice, and the peculiar plangency of blues singing in particular.

The principal intention, set out in a US Stock Exchange registration statement, is to sell enough shares to new investors to pay off an as yet unspecified portion of United's £423m debts, which the Glazers loaded on to the club when they bought it in 2005.

The principal intention here was to evaluate the implications of the inferred regulators and their targets for patient survival.

It permitted the merger of the two major dairy producing co-operatives (representing 90% of the total dairy production in New Zealand) and the New Zealand Dairy Board to form Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited (Fonterra) [ 71] with the principal intention to further improve efficiencies in the dairy market.

One of the principal intentions of the rebels was to capture Sarrail himself.

Though supported by conservationists, the agreement's principal intention is not to conserve this new fish habitat, formed by the receding of polar ice as the world warms up.

Notably, despite being a principal intention of the trial, only 66 (37%) patients randomly assigned to the intermittent group was rechallenged with the same first line chemotherapy.

Its principal intention is to offend the sensibilities of Republicans.

To rescue some fragments of the English poetic tradition from academic oblivion might not have been Mr. Davies's principal intention in making "Of Time and the City".