Sentence examples for defeat its object from inspiring English sources

The language of that compromise statement was in stark contrast to the previous meeting, in Brussels in December, when the ministers stated, "We remain committed to an early entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and, in the meanwhile, urge all states to refrain from any acts which would defeat its object and purpose".

In a 2004 article entitled "The Laffer Curve: Past, Present, and Future," he cited a passage of "The Means to Prosperity" in which Keynes wrote: Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.

Such a passion has always defeated its object.

'I have a possibly unfashionable understanding of the word "impertinence",' Powell explains in his introduction, 'and I believe it is impertinent for the biographer or critic to poke his nose into those aspects of a living author's life where his nose is least welcome.' This refusal to be prurient about the living is fair enough, except when it defeats his object, which it does here quite often.

Chapbooks are not going to be available in other formats, as downloads for E-readers like the Kindle, as Royle says it would "defeat the object of it – which is celebrating the gorgeous piece of history".

Criticisms that Indonesia's action fundamentally jeopardized global health security the very object of IHR 2005 (21 )—demonstrate that Indonesia could be considered in violation of its duty to not defeat the object and purpose of IHR 2005 before its entry into force.

But that would defeat the object of using its economies of scale to drive the cost of batteries down by at least a third.

"But if we did that, it would defeat the object.

Mr Hague - the minister responsible for GCHQ - said it would "defeat the object" to reveal how GCHQ or the security services work, because it would help terrorist networks, criminal networks, and foreign intelligence agencies.

Mr. Tucker objected to Mr. Sedgwick's motion of amendment, because it had a tendency to defeat the object of the proposition brought forward by his colleague, (Mr. Burke). The General Government would be the judge of inadequate or improper regulations; of consequence they might interfere in any or every law which the States might pass on that subject.

Like most countries, Syria signed the Rome Statute, which, according to U.N. rules, means that it is bound by the "obligation not to defeat the object and purpose of the treaty".