Sentence examples for was at first intended from inspiring English sources

Mr. White said that the system was at first intended to prevent accidental crashes, not terrorism, and he admitted that engineers had not yet figured out a way to implement the system safely.

The roof, completed in May, is made up of 930 concrete slabs, each 20 feet long and weighing 8 tons; it was at first intended to be suspended from steel brackets secured by giant steel anchors jammed deep into the tunnel's concrete shell.

Although the term "lemur" was at first intended for lorises, it was soon applied to the endemic Malagasy primates, which have been known as "lemurs" ever since.

The only thing that's certain is that this $6 million independent production was at first intended to be entirely serious -- even if Tommy later, and lamely, labeled the work "a black comedy".

The song was at first intended to be humorous, and took its title from Marvin the Paranoid Android from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series of books.

The tenth season episode "Back to the Pilot", originally titled "Road to the Pilot", was at first intended to be the seventh installment in the Road series, however it was changed before airing.

But there is also a strong suspicion that, even if the secret accounts were at first intended to serve a relatively virtuous purpose, they may have been abused as time went on.

Mr. Egol, a Princeton graduate, had risen to prominence inside the bank by creating mortgage-related securities, named Abacus, that were at first intended to protect Goldman from investment losses if the housing market collapsed.

For smaller companies, this could be ideal". Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook and Google are pouring their own resources into solving this problem, but this tool is at first intended to be used by small companies, and they may one day be forced to use it.

Regardless of the causes of the Breeders' hiatus, by early 1995 Deal believed her next album would be a solo one, and at first intended to play all instruments on it herself.

When Callaghan resigned 18 months after the 1979 election defeat, Healey began as frontrunner, but was overtaken by Michael Foot, who had not at first intended to stand.