Sentence examples for intent in effect from inspiring English sources

Whatever its intent, in effect, it amounts to little more than glorified industry PR calling itself 'news.' The real story is how the IPCC's projections and solutions are likely to be far too conservative, having been 'diluted' by pressure from the world's biggest fossil fuel polluters.

Applying the law to that group did not violate the Constitution's prohibition against ex post facto legislation because the law was punitive neither in intent nor in effect, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said.

According to Skrtic (1991b), the law and its requirements were initially created to carry out individualized and creative services by professionals and practitioners, but it has failed to adhere to its original intent and, in effect, sustains a professional bureaucracy.

He assailed the Bush tax cuts as "redistributive in intent and redistributive in effect".

Nor did opponents prove that the law was discriminatory in intent or effect, he wrote.

Aubrey Beardsley used a caricaturist's methods, but little of his work, except perhaps the illustrations to The Rape of the Lock, was actually in intent or effect caricature or cartoon.

This is closer to the intent and effect in Bach's time than any modern concert performance could ever muster, no matter how many (ahistorical) theorbos or choristers it involved.

The goods or services cannot be criminal in intent or effect: highway robbery may be an enterprise, but no community can abide it for long.

First of all, any domestic regulation that is protectionist (in intent or effect, depending on your view of the appropriate legal standard) will likely violate trade obligations, subject to various exceptions and carveouts.

The trial has raised difficult questions about the possible excesses of French antiterrorism law, which in effect treats intent as a criminal act.

You have, in effect, violated the spirit and intent of American law.