Sentence examples for intent of the rule from inspiring English sources

"The structure sounds like a slightly too-clever way to circumvent the intent" of the rule, he said.

The remaining benefits would be so-called co-benefits, which are basically good things that happen that weren't the main intent of the rule.

"If you're going to put this rule in, the intent of the rule is not to form a wedge," Westhoff said before the meeting.

The original intent of the rule was to limit the number of all-caps acronyms "looking like pieces of kitty litter all over the newspaper," said Craig Whitney, the standards editor.

Whether that was the intent of the rule is, of course, impossible to say.

In fact, the intent of the rules governing this new class of yachts was to discourage the practice.

Tony Dungy, a former coach and current NBC analyst, says he agrees with the intent of the rules, if not the execution in enforcing them.

"Clearly the intent of this rule is to nullify the lifting of the ban".

The public library is such a splendid institution; you should honor what I suspect you know to be the intent of this rule rather than embrace some sort of money-talks philosophy.

We need a new, coordinated Midtown approach as well as a citywide development study and an evaluation and revision of the zoning rules, so that we can return to the original intent of those rules and the landmarks law: to ensure that the city's residents have access to light, air and open space and to preserve some of the architecture of the past.

The solution, they argue, is something like the Volcker Rule -- or at least the original intent of the Volcker Rule before it got lobbied into uselessness -- prohibiting banks from trading on their own account.