Sentence examples for intent of this amendment from inspiring English sources

"The intent of this amendment is not to improve investor protections, but to delay and deflect meaningful reform," said Barbara Roper, director for investor protection at the Consumer Federation of America.

"It is directly contrary to the amendment and to the intent of the amendment," he said.

"The intent of the amendment is to restore congressional oversight over the Kosovo mission," said Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, the provision's chief Democratic sponsor.

Perhaps the next amicus brief will find the true intent of the amendment by pointing out that "militia" and "state" are capitalized in the original, whereas "people" is not.

The developer, Kemper Freeman, argues in his lawsuit that would prohibit the conversion of the I-90 HOV lanes to transit use.I don't know but I suspect that the intent of the amendment was to keep money flowing from road usage flowing to road spending.

Can anyone with a lick of common sense actually believe the intent of that amendment was to allow assault weapons in the hands of every American?

What is difficult to envision is a situation in our future that would crystallize the intent of the Amendment into clarity.

"The intent of the amendment was to make sure we get someone in there with real world experience who is outside of academia and outside of theorizing how you protect consumers and theorizing how you prevent fraud," said Garrett spokeswoman Erica Elliot.

That is the purpose of this amendment".

On Thursday, Meredith Griffanti, a spokeswoman for Mr. Broun, who is a medical doctor, said that he "fully believes in the intent of his amendment to prevent the Justice Department from enforcing Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act," but added that "given the magnitude of this change and out of respect for his colleagues, Dr. Broun withdrew the amendment".

The decision cited the "clear words and manifest intent" of the Fourteenth Amendment.