5 sentences with “envisaged”

Clay also envisaged a wide range of internal transport improvements.

Even as Napoleon envisaged the expansion of his empire, most of his best soldiers were trapped in Spain. Napoleon came to refer to the occupation as his "Spanish ulcer", a wound in his empire that would not stop bleeding.

The eminent historian of France, Lynn Hunt, in her work The Invention of Human Rights, traces some of the ways in which the promise of "equality" brought about changes that the members of the Assembly had never originally envisaged - some of her arguments are presented below.

Thus, one of the plans envisaged by wartime governments in the West was the reward for the people who had endured and suffered the war - this phenomenon is sometimes referred to as the "post-war compromise" between governments and elites on the one hand and workers on the other.

Their ideology, based on the writings of Saint-Simon, envisaged a society in which industrialism was harnessed to make a kind of paradise on earth, with the fruits of technology going to feed, clothe and house, potentially, everyone. They were, in a word, the first "technocrats", people who believe that technology can solve any problem.