Sentence examples for was intended to assert from inspiring English sources

His coronation as emperor the first and last imperial coronation in Spain in the cathedral of León in 1135 was intended to assert Leonese claims to ascendancy throughout Spain; however, the newly formed federation of Aragon and Catalonia and the newly independent kingdom of Portugal soon offered a daunting challenge to Leonese predominance.

When applied to Jesus, therefore, "born of woman" was intended to assert that he was a real man, in opposition to the attempt later seen in various systems of Gnosticism, a 2nd-century dualistic religion to deny that he had had a completely human life; he was said by some Gnostics to have passed through the body of Mary as light passes through a window.

Carvalho's regalistic policies were intended to assert the power of the crown and to create a mercantile class; this brought him into conflict with the nobility and the church.

Those duties were part of a series of four acts that became known as the Townshend Acts, which also were intended to assert Parliament's authority over the colonies, in marked contrast to the policy of salutary neglect that had been practiced by the British government during the early to mid-18th century.

It was intended to re-assert Congress's constitutional role in making decisions about getting involved in significant military conflicts.

The move, he asserted, was intended to punish the private banks for permitting the hemorrhage of capital to foreign havens.

In April the office, which is nonpartisan, began requesting documents that detail how the administration assembled its energy plan, which Democrats asserted was intended to benefit oil, coal, gas companies and other big contributors to the Bush presidential campaign.

Mrs. Kirchner called the investigation "garbage operations" and asserted that it was intended to drive a wedge between the growing friendship between Argentina and Venezuela.

Family and friends of the Khans have asserted that all money sent to Pakistan was intended to help poor family members and support a madrasa in northwest Pakistan.

Israel has asserted that it had the legal right to stop the activists from violating the embargo, which was intended to prevent shipments of weapons to Palestinian militants.

Some experts added to this by asserting that overdiagnosis was not a harm, rather that the diagnosis of small cancers was exactly what the screening program was intended to do in order to reduce breast cancer mortality and morbidity.