Sentence examples for plain intent from inspiring English sources

Such a construction would be an unwarranted departure from the plain intent of this curative and enabling statute.

Rather, we should follow the plain intent of § 4 that the victims of anticompetitive conduct be allowed the remedy provided by the section.

Certainly there is a rule saying that a motive to avoid taxes is permissible, wrote Justice George Sutherland, but that was irrelevant because the strategy used by the taxpayer "upon its face lies outside the plain intent of the statute.

The denial of even the minimal protections accorded by Rule 42(b) deprived petitioner of an opportunity to prepare a legal defense, or to demonstrate extenuating circumstances, 1 and satisfied neither the plain intent of Rule 42 nor the principles of fair play.

And he'll get a three-year appointment now where he'll be one person on the F.E.C. and I don't like it, but I -- but I decided that I should not shut down the whole appointments process and depart from the plain intent of the law, which requires that it be bipartisan and by all tradition that the majority leader make the nomination.... New York Senate Race Q.

"In light of the unconstitutionality of the Court's Orders and the Court's plain intent to usurp the General Assembly's constitutionally delegated role of drafting Pennsylvania's congressional district plan, Senator Scarnati will not be turning over any data identified in the Court's Orders," Brian Paszamant, Scarnati's attorney, wrote in a letter to the court.

The apparent failure of two learned and serious ministers to hear the plain, earnest intent of Jack's question is painful in itself, but it is also the sign of something larger.

Free schools are a hallowed Tory initiative, symbolic of the "localism" beloved by the Cameroons, and so by rejecting them Clegg makes plain his intent to put philosophical distance between himself and Cameron.

I am against DISHONEST scholarship that distorts Shinran's plain and straightforward intent in support of some other agenda.

Then, he comes out like Jake LaMotta, eyes flashing, gloves up, his malicious intent plain for all to see.

The title of William Carlos Williams's poem Tract makes his instructional intent plain, but his subject is a peculiar one: how to properly conduct a funeral.