Of course, "construction" talk is meant to evoke a variety of connotations that attend more paradigmatic construction: intentional activity, engaged in step-by step fashion, producing a designed, artifactual product.
The second semi-final was a pointed statement – not necessarily intentional – as Nishikori engaged in a three hours and 20 minutes game against Murray on Wednesday night, to that point the longest match in the tournament's history.
As Ellis (1997) stated, one of the ways to structure the input is interpretation tasks which are designed to invite learners to get engaged in intentional learning by consciously noticing how a target pragmatic expression is used in the input.
Just last year two federal courts found that states had engaged in intentional racial discrimination in passing voter suppression statutes designed to keep Black people from voting.
When Judge Pauley found the city engaged in "intentional appeasement" of its bridge-painting fraternity and their lewdly plastered lockers, he awarded $125,000 to each of the offended women.
Richard Briffault, the vice dean of the Columbia University law school, said, "The court is not saying that the state engaged in intentional discrimination, but that its process tends to shortchange New York City students, who are overwhelmingly minority, and for no good reason".
"There is sufficient evidence from which a reasonable juror could conclude that Kleiner Perkins engaged in intentional gender discrimination by failing to promote Ms Pao and terminating her employment," Judge Harold Kahn said in his ruling.
In a company filing in 2007, G.E. said "several individuals in our rail business and in our capital markets group engaged in intentional misconduct that misled those responsible for accounting oversight".
Although the chatter may attempt to interrupt directed thought or directed action (i.e., mind wandering while engaged in intentional thought or action), it is unlikely to occur simultaneously.
Judge Peter C. Dorsey of Federal District Court in New Haven ruled Thursday that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had proved that "there is a perception in the black community that the town is closed to black employment, unwelcomingly hostile and resistant". However, he rejected charges that the town had engaged in intentional discrimination.
