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DeKloe, the Sierra Club leader, called it a “weasel tactic” intended to bypass a countywide vote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
“These measures are intended to reduce potential flooding impacts, but cannot eliminate all flood risks,” the city said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
The ECI has rejected allegations of impropriety, saying the revision was intended to remove duplicate and ineligible voters.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
The money is intended to support HIV/Aids, tuberculosis, malaria, maternal and child health, disease surveillance and wider health system work, including the recruitment of community health workers.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Sancho replied that he was not going to fight—he had been a peaceful man all his life and intended to remain one.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
Spurred on by Berowne, “a man replete with mocks,” they double down on whimsy, dressing up for some reason as Russians to bamboozle their intendeds.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
The online star, who has more than 20m YouTube subscribers, intendeds to sue Paradise for defamation for the "irreparable damages" to his reputation.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2021
The setting is Naples, and old philosopher Don Alfonso bets the boys that their intendeds are fallible.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2014
Her sketch of a sojourn upon the Lioness Range is not tempting: young gentlemen who intend leading brides to the deadly peninsula should hide the book from their fair intendeds.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and desert their chosen intendeds for my sake?'
From Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
