Sentence examples for intent of restricting from inspiring English sources

George Eppsteiner, a staff attorney with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, which is representing the plaintiffs in the voting rights suit, said he believed the Republican caucus in the state legislature passed the package of restrictions last year with the intent of restricting access, rather than combating fraudulent voting.

Our founding fathers engineered the political system to have an electoral college with the intent of restricting political power to the elite - two and half centuries later everyone can vote, but the value of that vote has depreciated, and power to move policy still remains in the hand of the wealthy few.

Invoking cold-war language, the general counsel for another chemical company suggested that Carson was a front for "sinister influences" intent on restricting pesticide use in order to reduce American food supplies to the levels of the Eastern bloc.

With the same bill stalled in the House, Republicans are working fiercely to fast-track SB 529 through the Senate with the hopes of restricting the rights of African-American women by name and all women by intent.

If that really was their intent, why, then, would the authors of the law go to court to defend the precise opposite of their true, secret intent to restrict subsidies only to states that set up exchanges?

Among the findings was that between the 1982 reauthorization and 2006, the number of Justice Department pre-clearance objections jumped 180percentt, with the nature of the restrictions being more subtle but still driven by the intent to restrict minority voting power.

The eating inventory quantified dietary restraint (the intent to restrict energy intake) and disinhibition (the tendency to overeat) (8).

A letter of intent is a contract of restricted scope that can authorize the start of construction to perform a limited amount of work.

Just last month it gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965, placing a nearly impossible burden on individual citizens to show that state officials had invidious intent in restricting the opportunity to vote.

A few days later, another government minister, Sachin Pilot, told The New York Times India Ink blog in an interview: "There is absolutely no intent of anyone to restrict or censor anything that's available on the Internet".

The congressional intent was to restrict banks' competition for deposits, which had (mistakenly) been thought to have encouraged unprofitable lending by banks and contributed to the wave of bank failures in the early 1930s.