Sentence examples for dishonest intent from inspiring English sources

"Did we have dishonest intent when we jumped into the yard at Iceland to retrieve what was in the bins?

The burden of proof will be on the defendant; there will be no need for prosecutors to show that the person in the dock had any dishonest intent.

For the past half-century, 'genuine' mediums have been protected by the 1951 Fraudulent Mediums Act, under which prosecutors had to prove fraud and dishonest intent to secure a criminal conviction, which was difficult.

Some of the Conservatives' proposed amendments to the legislation would involve prosecutors having to prove dishonest intent on the part of those handing out the bribes rather than just showing they were trying to gain an improper advantage.

Already, Hong Kong's criminal code allows authorities to charge people with the offense of "obtaining access to a computer with a dishonest intent". The pending bill, some activists fear, would only strengthen the authorities' hand.

When a theory is shown to be incorrect or a publication in error, it is all too easy to think that the scientist who came up with this theory is a liar or a dishonest fraudster intent on misleading the public for personal gain.

Last night David Howarth, a former Lib Dem MP and a law don at Cambridge University, suggested that the Telegraph journalists might have broken the law, which forbids making dishonest statements with the intent of putting an individual at risk of pecuniary loss.

Now the governor has offered a proposal simple and clear in its intent, and patently dishonest.

I am against DISHONEST scholarship that distorts Shinran's plain and straightforward intent in support of some other agenda.

The researchers were not able to assess why some doctors might have been compelled to veil or avoid the truth, but "I don't believe doctors set out to be dishonest or have some kind of malicious or nefarious intent," said Dr. Lisa I. Iezzoni, the study's lead author and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, who is director of the Mongan Institute.

Mr. Rosenthal says no. "If we had changed the intent of the editorial, it would have been dishonest not to say so," he said.