Sentence examples for were plainly intended from inspiring English sources

These were plainly intended to resemble explosives, but are now said to have been a dummy device: a fine distinction, which an armed policeman is unlikely to appreciate.

But the spot's disingenuous questions were plainly intended to deceive the unwary into assuming that Wall Street tax breaks and the like are the very ideas Obama has been advocating.

"But this does not excuse his behaviour in knowingly submitting 19 false invoices over a period of four financial years which were plainly intended to deceive the Parliamentary expenses authorities".

Denis MacShane, a privy councillor and former Minister for Europe, said he was resigning as an MP after a damning report by the Standards and Privileges Committee concluded he had knowingly submitted 19 false invoices that were "plainly intended to deceive" Parliament's expenses authority.

A Parliamentary committee found he had submitted 19 false invoices which were "plainly intended to deceive" Parliament's expenses authority.

The odyssey depicted in The Way is plainly intended to be unusually instructive.

In Pierce, Oregon had required all children to attend public schools; the law was plainly intended to eliminate parochial schools.

This whole ritual was plainly intended to be — as one of the foolishly aesthetic maidens in the Gilbert and Sullivan opera "Patience" remarks — "perceptively intense and consummately utter".

DONALD RUMSFELD'S scornful dismissal of France and Germany as "old Europe" was plainly intended to cut the two countries down to size.

The video released by Mr bin Laden on the day of America's air strikes was plainly intended to stir up violence by Muslims against their rulers and against America (see article).

This novel was plainly intended to show its author's deep contempt, however comedically expressed, for all grand schemes, most especially the Rousseauean ones, to improve the human lot.