Sentence examples for intent of the bill from inspiring English sources
Q2: What was ultimately the intent of the bill?
"We concur with the Congress and share the intent of the bill," press secretary Jay Carney said.
But she added the important caveat that amendments must not "change the nature or intent of the bill".
Democrats supported the intent of the bill, but blocked its consideration because it would also require unspecified cuts in spending for domestic programs.
Oasis, LawCash and other companies persuaded other legislators to reverse the intent of the bill, instead making clear that the rules did not apply to lawsuit loans.
"If the intent of the bill is to reduce advertising by independent groups and reduce the amount of money spent," he said, "it will have the opposite effect.
And could it be, might it just be a desire to limit women's access to safe, healthy, legal, constitutionally-protected abortions in the state of Texas?" "The intent of this bill by the people that helped write it, and I'm one of them, is to increase safety," replied state Sen. Bob Deuell (R).
Amit Narang of the Public Citizen watchdog group, said, "It's not very plausible to me that the intent of this bill is to hold the EPA head accountable, and I worry some of the details will allow for the same type of strategic questioning of consensus science that was very effective for the tobacco industry for a long time.
To look at it from a slightly different angle, the intent of this bill is to punish the Chinese because the dollar isn't being devalued quickly enough.
While I believed the bill still needed much work, I cosponsored the Senate version of the Protect IP Act because I support the original intent of this bill – to protect against the piracy of lawful content.
The intent of this bill is to block undercover investigators from, say, The Humane Society of the United States, Human Rights Watch, or Brian Ross' investigative news team from getting jobs where they could witness and record abuse of animals or workers, illegal disposal of waste, or other unethical and illegal practices.
