Sentence examples for were intended to kill from inspiring English sources

He voted for and even sponsored amendments that were intended to kill the legislation, amendments that Senator Kennedy and I voted against.

Others, of course, have targeted Muslims, such as last week's Beirut bombings, which were intended to kill Shiites, who are vilified as apostates by the Sunni Muslim extremists of ISIS.

Investigators doubt the devices were intended to kill or cause serious harm, and the terrorism threat level relating to Irish groups has been kept at "moderate", meaning an attack is considered possible but not likely.

Crew members could fire the bomblets electrically, releasing sheets of grenades from the canister's honeycomb of slots as the aircraft approached a target, scattering the submunitions toward the ground, where they were intended to kill people and disable light vehicles.

The three lethal bullets that killed my husband were intended to kill not merely the life of one man, but to deter other leaders from traversing the road to peace.

In addition to the shootings, prosecutors say that the group was behind two bombings in Cologne, one in January 2001 and the other in June 2004, that were intended to kill "as many people as possible only because of their non-German origin".

"He was clearly terrified and convinced we were intending to kill him," his chart said.

The judge said it was "clear that the accused were intending to kill the victim".

These are intended to kill insects.

The Telecopter was intended to kill the competition.

For acquired diseases, such as cancer, gene-therapy trials are introducing genes that are intended to kill cancerous cells.