Sentence examples for were intended to close from inspiring English sources

The tax extensions were intended to close the rest of the gap.

The 2006 amendments were intended to close some of the loopholes and make the pension system less risky.

This was intended to close a chapter that had become embarrassing to Washington.

High-speed rail was intended to close up these spaces between us.

The UN resolution ban on specific luxury items is intended to close a loophole that previously allowed countries to decide for themselves what constitutes luxury goods.

The law was intended to close a loophole that let online retailers sell their wares but not collect and pay sales tax to the state.

The F.D.A. action is intended to close a loophole in the 1976 federal law under which medical devices were first regulated.

Title 1 — funded at $15.9 billion — is intended to close the gap between poor and wealthier school districts, which in this country are largely funded by property taxes.

The government had been working round the clock to secure the positive ABCC vote, which was intended to close out the political year for Malcolm Turnbull on a high.

The Home Office has identified the perceived gap in the law that the offences of incitement to religious hatred are intended to close.

The measure, passed on an overwhelming vote of 556 to 42, is intended to close, at least legally, the most brutal chapter in German history.