Sentence examples for intent or purpose from inspiring English sources

The board said it was "never the intent or purpose" of school officials to discipline the child for using the word.

It is, however, common practice to include within Coptic art all forms of artistic expression that, like the so-called Coptic textiles, need have no religious intent or purpose.

Depth, size, texture, and interactive complexities of this physical object was perceived differently in its physical form than in its digital intrinsic information that could provide additional knowledge about the creator's meaning and intent or purpose of construction.

Accordingly, we construed the antitrust laws as not prohibiting the filing of a lawsuit, regardless of the plaintiff's anticompetitive intent or purpose in doing so, unless the suit was a "mere sham" filed for harassment purposes.

We later made clear that this antitrust immunity “shields from the Sherman Act a concerted effort to influence public officials regardless of intent or purpose.” Mine Workers v. Pennington, 381 U.S. 657, 670 (1965).

In the second subphase, the infant's reflex movements become more coordinated, though they still consist largely of simple acts (called primary circular actions) that are repeated for their own sake (e.g., sucking, opening and closing the fists, and fingering a blanket) and do not reflect any conscious intent or purpose on the infant's part.

At the law's last reauthorization, in 2006, Congress considered over 15,000 pages of evidence detailing practices and laws with discriminatory intents or purposes that would have deprived thousands -- perhaps millions -- of their constitutional right had the Act not nipped them in the bud.

I might do that by integrating the normal function from negative infinity for all intents and purposes five or six standard deviations.

Because of a brain injury, they were completely amnesiacs, or for all intents and purposes couldn't think the way that we think about cognition.

For all intents and purposes, that loan or credit card you just cosigned for is just as much your kid's responsibility as it is yours.

What if, rather than toy with a thought experiment that, for practical intents and purposes, lacks rhyme or reason, we instead examined whether we in fact have, in respects, lost the revolution.