Sentence examples for intended to rectify from inspiring English sources
Congerton's installation was intended to rectify such problems and the former Hamburg technical director has impressed in often difficult circumstances.
But he resented being compelled to assign them to schools on the basis of race to comply with federal guidelines intended to rectify what the government called a pattern of discriminatory hiring in the city schools.
Billy Hunter, the embattled head of the N.B.A. players union, announced a modest list of reforms Wednesday — measures intended to rectify concerns about his stewardship and perhaps save his job.
They had always intended to "rectify" Disasters of War, "to take that nice word from [the film] The Shining, when the butler's trying to encourage Jack Nicholson to kill his family, to 'rectify' the situation".
In September, after The New York Times asked them about the issue, two Democratic congressmen, Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts and Maurice D. Hinchey of New York, asked Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac how they intended to rectify any breaches of their standards caused by drilling leases.
These notions are explicated more precisely than in the earlier texts, and they are fleshed out in ways that seem intended to rectify weaknesses in earlier Mohist ethics.
("In what new ways do you intend to rectify the inequalities in the workplace, specifically regarding females making only seventy-two percent of what their male counterparts earn?") Instead, he said that he knew women would want to leave the office earlier, to make dinner for their children, and that he thought employers could help with flexible schedules.
You are completely in the right to be surprised by this situation and I fully intend to rectify it.
Would a male moderator have chosen the fourth question, asked by a young woman, "In what new ways do you intend to rectify the inequalities in the workplace specifically regarding females making only 72percentt of what their male counterparts earn?" Post-debate, the media did not fact-check the women's data or pursue the equal pay legislation topic, which affects working women and our families.
It is also possible that an article is cited to identify methodological shortcomings and to show how the citing study intends to rectify those limitations.
