Sentence examples for visit was designed from inspiring English sources

Treasury sources said the visit was designed to look beyond the economic uncertainty on the doorstep in Europe to the opportunities for growth from Asia.

Hollande's UN visit was designed to reassert France's firm position on Syria after he was attacked in the French media for allowing Paris to be sidelined by the US and Russia in dealing with the chemical weapons crisis.

Carlyle Thayer, analyst with the Australian Defence Force Academy in Sydney, wrote in a briefing that Hu's visit was "designed to put pressure on Cambodia as ASEAN chair to take China's concerns into account" and discourage formal discussion of the issue.

The visit was designed to bolster Anglo-French solidarity in the face of aggression from Nazi Germany.

The visit was designed, Metternich explained, to transport his family (stranded in France by the outbreak of war) home and to report back to the Austrian Emperor about Marie Louise's activities.

Denis McDonough, senior director for strategic communications on the National Security Council, said the visit was "designed that way to send a very strong signal to President Calderón," and that Mr. Obama "admires his work as it relates to confronting violence and impunity by criminal trafficking organizations".

Obama's visit is designed to draw attention to the impact of climate change and highlight the fact that they are already happening in the Arctic.

Hollande's visit is designed to play to his domestic audience and show that his high-risk decision to intervene in the former colony has paid off.

Gallego said that he fears the president's visit is designed to shore up support among his base voters and speculated that pardoning Arpaio could help that task.

Tsipras' visit is designed to please a domestic audience and bolster his standing in the EU, according to Thanos Dokos, director of the Athens-based Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy.

The visit is designed to reap some domestic political kudos for what has, in effect, been the first war that Cameron waged rather than inherited from the Labour government.