Sentence examples for were to convey from inspiring English sources

It was extremely convoluted and unlikely and valiant though the efforts of the Hopeless Expositionary Policeman were to convey this twist, it all seems rather shrouded in mist.

Cook's orders were to convey gentlemen of the Royal Society and their assistants to Tahiti to observe the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun.

A parallel case in Iran might arise if the supreme leader were to convey his order to assemble a nuclear bomb via channels the C.I.A. and Mossad knew nothing about.

Long narrative songs recorded history in the Mongghul of north-east Tibet, while in the Americas, Aztec poet Ayocuan Cuetzpaltzin posited that the language of song must imitate the call of the coyolli bird if it were to convey "the innermost part of heaven", as only music could.

"The soaring emotions from music might be a mystery to them, but if we were to convey something of what humans were about then music has to be a part of it," he later recalled in an interview with BBC Radio 4. Sagan quickly pitched the idea for the golden records, estimating it would cost $25,000 to make them.

Spokesman David Murphy said the channels were to convey water in a channel instead of on the flood plain.

The intent here is to convey information.

To communicate is to convey meaning, but what is meaning?

More broadly, the point of language is to convey meaning.

"And the goal in the ads was to convey that".

If the idea is to convey youthful obliviousness, Mr. Harrison succeeds.