Sentence examples for intended to define the from inspiring English sources

In 1857, in Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Supreme Court ruled that the framers had intended to define "the negro race" not as people but as property, to be "bought and sold and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise".

This test was neither designed nor intended to define the properties of gelatin.

The authors intended to define the relationship between antepartum pelvic organ mobility and delivery-related changes in these parameters.

The sampling is intended to define the boundaries of environmental management areas for the Sado Estuary, situated on the west coast of Portugal.

The original scope was intended to define the basis for the two primary cornerstones of a project: physical facilities and the required project deliverables.

From the same point of view, our research is not intended to define the concept of "slightest distortions" when precisely they have not been studied under magnification (logically in the strict sense of the word).

In concluding that it did, the court overturned a ruling by the federal appeals court in California and held that Congress did not intend to define the universe of possible defenses when it included the "threat to others" language in the statute.

It is not clear if they mean that "exploitative" covers all zero hours contracts, or that they intend to define the type that exploits and differentiate it, in the law, from the type of flexible contract which suits both employer and employee.

Latencies between the first and last responses were interpreted as deriving from intermediate tone frequencies progressing from lower to higher frequencies (note that we do not intend to define the exact best frequency of each voxel, but rather the relative preference to a tone range, be it high, medium or low frequency range).

As for material consequences, it is not entirely clear how exactly Ockham intended to define this class of consequences.

It was not intended to define or describe the specialty skills of a palliative medicine physician.