Sentence examples for lawmakers intent from inspiring English sources

Anna Nelson, a historian at American University, said the delays ran counter to lawmakers' intent to make the documents public.

Instead, Moore argues that the Fourth Amendment, as applied to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment, already considers state lawmakers' intent.

Its backers include Russian lawmakers intent on resurrecting empire, and hard-nosed types out to control the region's mineral resources and markets.

Congress will have to be unceasingly vigilant during the rule-making to ensure that resulting regulations reflect lawmakers' intent and the public's needs.

Mr. Keefe has been critical of the committee and he said the public hearings are simply a "show" by lawmakers intent on impeaching the governor.

Still, there they are in the official record for historians to read, or perhaps a judge trying to determine the lawmakers' intent in passing this bill.

Whether they know what they are doing or not, lawmakers seem intent on moving forward.

Lawmakers are intent on ignoring the unfairness of the current system.

Judge Joseph W. Bellacosa said there was no reason for the court to look any further than the lawmakers' stated intent in determining their motives for passing the repeal.

Along with two other Olympus executives, he faces up to ten years in jail.It would be nice to think that lawmakers were intent on preventing a repeat of this debacle.

Richard Mancino, the lawyer for the plaintiffs, said that "the system here in New York is broken" and that lawmakers were intent on perpetuating the status quo "where the incumbents pick who their voters are going to be".