Intended
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For these activists, such linkages were
intended
to maintain control over women, and were part of Moroccan society, not Islam.
Government projects such as the United States’ Apollo program –
intended
to put a man on the moon – drove demand for more basic technologies (which are simply inventions that no one has asked for yet).
Of course, much of this is
intended
for domestic consumption – a way to mobilize public opinion behind authoritarian rulers.
What Ridley fails to recognize is that the theoretical underpinnings of these inventions may be the result of earlier basic research that had no particular
intended
practical application; that its significance was completely unsuspected when it was conducted.
It would be better, of course, if Russia and China would allow the Security Council to do the job for which it was
intended
– securing peace and preventing war crimes.
And, as a newly released US Defense Department report shows, Pakistan – “China’s primary customer for conventional weapons” – is likely to host a Chinese naval hub
intended
to project power in the Indian Ocean region.
While it is commonly believed that the devaluations were
intended
to “beggar thy neighbor,” Nurkse pointed out that they were often accompanied by expansionary monetary policy, which benefited world trade.
This observation is not
intended
to imply that the general direction of monetary-policy accommodation is inappropriate.
There is a reason for this: Although the prior-notification rule in American policy applies only to aircraft headed for US national airspace, in practice the US demands advance notification of all flights through its ADIZ, regardless of their
intended
destination.
In its present form, this document recapitulates all kinds of rights which EU citizens already enjoy under existing laws; it is not
intended
to confer any new rights, and it cannot be enforced in the European Court of Justice.
Simplification might be intended, at the start, as another conjuring trick: to make the Treaties more comprehensible to voters without changing anything in law.
Trump recently suggested that the US should negotiate with its creditors to buy back much of its debt at a discount – in effect, a partial default on trillions of dollars of liabilities,
intended
to reduce the burden of debt service for taxpayers.
During an interview
intended
as a direct address to the American people, President Mohammed Khatami, a reformer elected last year, proposed cultural exchanges as a way to “crack the wall of mistrust.”
(The one thing on which Trump does not want his name is the Republicans’ widely derided new health-care proposal,
intended
to replace Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act.)
Nearly 400 years ago, in 1644, John Milton published his Areopagitica, an essay denouncing a measure in Parliament for licensing the press that was intended, among other things, to suppress libelous publications.
On the other hand, if the system is defied, or reinterpreted in a way that alters its
intended
meaning, bond markets could once again become nervous.
Liu’s committed advocacy on behalf of democracy in China is, above all,
intended
for the benefit of the Chinese people.
The European Union’s summit in Brussels in early December was
intended
to prevent such debt accumulation in the future.
The fuel for the air base came mostly from Russia, and the main Pentagon contractor’s local dealers falsely claimed that it was
intended
for domestic civilian consumption, thereby benefiting from lower import tariffs.
The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (or “Obamacare”) was
intended
to ameliorate these threats – and there are strong indications that it is on its way to significantly reducing the number of uninsured Americans.
The Bush Administration probably launched its war against Iraq because it
intended
to make the country a new base for long-term military operations in the Gulf region.
Rather, they
intended
that Israel would help solve the Jewish problem everywhere in the world by enabling every Jew who wished to leave the diaspora to do so.
But it is too early to tell whether its security crackdown in Sinai is a one-time operation,
intended
to placate angry citizens, or the beginning of a serious effort to address the interconnected problems in Sinai and Gaza.
The ECB is stealthily buying government bonds on the secondary market, but its new governor, Mario Draghi, insists that such intervention is temporary, limited, and
intended
solely to “restore the functioning of monetary transmission channels.”
Doing Business is not
intended
to be a comprehensive review of each country’s economy.
Many other developing countries face similar problems, with benefits
intended
for the poor accruing to better-off people, while many of the
intended
recipients miss out, owing to a combination of political and administrative collusion and genuine structural challenges.
Hospitality businesses are now ranked, analyzed, and compared not by industry professionals, but by the very people for whom the service is
intended
– the customer.
That nickname for the ACA, coined by the Republicans when the law was enacted in early 2010, was
intended
to be derogatory, and their opposition to the program seemed to be vindicated in that year’s midterm elections, when they swept both houses of congress.
The move to part-time employment in Holland was
intended
to increase female participation in the Dutch labor force.
The world will soon find out whether Xi’s politically conservative course is
intended
to facilitate his pro-market economic reforms.
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