Sentence examples for was intended to detect from inspiring English sources

While the technology was intended to detect a child or pet left behind, it proved unfeasible.

One aspect of the program was intended to detect and steal passwords from victims' computers and relay them to a Philippine e-mail address.

WASHINGTON — Five Southwest Airlines planes grounded last month because they had not been properly inspected had precisely the kind of cracks that the inspection order was intended to detect, an official of the agency testified Thursday to a Senate subcommittee.

The program was intended to detect tuberculosis cases, make sure patients were taking their antibiotics, test patients for resistance to those drugs and monitor the spread of the disease.

Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, said the effort recalled the aborted 2002 push by a Defense Department agency to develop a tracking system called Total Information Awareness that was intended to detect terrorists by analyzing troves of information.

Dr. Goodman rose to prominence as one of the top surgeons in New York after working on a device, at the time known as an electrogastrograph, that could measure the electric potential of the stomach wall and was intended to detect stomach cancer and other abnormalities.

Combining scaled-down photo optics and nanomaterials to form a uniquely sensitive platform for exposure detection, the initial prototype device is intended to detect even very low exposures to organophosphate pesticides.

Applicants are also required to submit to a home visit that officials say is intended to detect fraud.

Combidex, when combined with magnetic resonance imaging, is intended to detect the spread of cancer to the lymph nodes.

Many of the questions — about appetite, sleep habits, thoughts of suicide — were intended to detect symptoms of severe mental illness.

Screening is intended to detect abnormalities within the cervix that could, if untreated, develop into cancer.