Sentence examples for intention or effect from inspiring English sources

It serves – by intention or effect – to perpetuate male power and control.

Paragraph 18 identifies and precludes discrimination based on a variety of factors, including "civil, political, social or other status," which has the intention or effect of nullifying or impairing the equal enjoyment or exercise of the right to health.

This is reinforced by the special rapporteur: "Accordingly, international human rights law proscribes any discrimination in access to health care, and the underlying determinants of health, on the internationally prohibited grounds, including health status, which has the intention or effect of impairing the equal enjoyment of the right to health" (26).

Now when a speaker performs an illocutionary act in uttering a sentence, she often does so with particular intentions or effects in mind.

Paul notes that attempts to draw lessons from the history of eugenics are confounded by disagreements about how to define "eugenics"—whether to characterize eugenics according to a program's intentions or effects, its use of coercive rather than voluntary means, or its appeals to social and political aims that extend beyond the immediate concerns of individual families.

This deeper concern goes beyond discriminatory intentions or effects.

According to recent case law, price-fixing schemes designated as horizontal (that is, coördinated among competitors) violate antitrust law, no matter the parties' intentions or the effects on the market.

But this is just like "text in process": if the individual is defined and constituted by relationships, the individual is not really an entity that can be said to have ownership of either its intentions or their effects; the individual is (as poststructuralist theory used to tell us) just a relay through which messages circulating in the network pass and are sent along.

For a long time, white comics circled around the subject, or – if they addressed it – were self-conscious about doing so, about flagging their (ironic or otherwise) intention and effect.

Though we have previously shown that predictors of intention differed by trial group within the English study [ 24] we found no evidence of a trial group effect on intention or behaviour, Data were therefore analysed as two cross sectional studies by pooling the data from trial intervention and control arms within each country.

Taking the results of the present study at face-value, why might subjects not have exhibited an intention effect or control effect for generous, versus fair, behavior?