Sentence examples for against the intent from inspiring English sources

As early as 2006, the EPA issued a memo calling such procedures "against the intent of the monitoring protocol".

"It goes against the intent of bus lanes because it causes congestion," said one senior official in state government who regularly works with the Police Department.

Comparing the bloodiness of Westworld to that of Game of Thrones, in essence, is like holding the intent behind the Stanford Prison Experiment admittedly an ethically questionable project up against the intent of the soldiers who committed atrocities at Abu Ghraib.

From the point of view of the quality of health care, health policies should be supported with financing schemes that do not work against the intent of the policy.

As a consequence of a paucity of data for the two- and three-dimensional distribution of the magnitude of these stresses, extremely conservative values of stresses have been adopted to ensure that the plant is secure against the design intent throughout the service life.

Blacks could compete against each other for "coloured" championships and occasionally against whites when the intent was to stimulate ticket sales by titillating audiences with black versus white contests, but blacks were never permitted to compete against whites for national championships, which put both more money and white pride at stake.

Even Bill Simmons, who has gone silent since news broke on Friday that ESPN would not be extending his contract, couldn't stop himself from tweeting out YouTube videos from the team's Super Bowl victory against the Seattle Seahawks, the intent of which speaks for itself, since Simmons obviously doesn't.

Rather, the aim of the document appears to be designed to garner support for Ipso, a regulator set up by the big newspaper corporations against the express intent of Leveson recommendations.

Now the hope for a downtown Newark stadium is all but dead, but the governor said he was confident that middle-class taxpayers would be grateful that he did not use public funds to help those bidding against the group intent on the Brooklyn move.

Purpose/ Objective: The purpose of the evaluation as defined in the Terms of Reference is to assess the progress made by the One UN pilot against the strategic intent, and to assess its role and contribution to the support of national policies and strategies for achievement of national development results.

The FBI has waged wars against people of color, with the intent to destroy black leaders such as Dr. King and Malcolm X, and civil rights groups such as the NAACP, the Black Panther Party and SCLC.