Sentence examples for purpose or effect from inspiring English sources

But these were tears without moral purpose or effect: sensation for sensation's sake.

When they do, they have to show that the proposed change does not have the purpose or effect of discriminating against minority voters.

"Imperial Tobacco categorically denies that these promotional arrangements had the purpose or effect of restricting competition," the company said in a statement this morning.

Be that as it may, the city's lawyers dutifully asked the department to approve the term-limits change, which they said was not discriminatory in "purpose or effect".

The Justice Department will allow each law to go into effect only if the state can show its law will not have a racially discriminatory purpose or effect.

Much of the first part, which is set in 2000 and culminates in the death of the student, reads like an exercise in extended scene-setting, to no obvious purpose or effect.

As a bulwark protecting abortion rights, that language sounded fairly solid: the application of the purpose-or-effect test to abortion jurisprudence was one of the signal contributions of Sandra Day O'Connor, and it had the markings of her pragmatic approach.

Reflectors of appropriate shape are used for a variety of purposes or effects.

A dialogue act (DA) describes the purposes or effects of an utterance in a dialogue [16, 17].

This habit is not without purpose or cumulative effect.

Administration officials hope that the changes will overcome judges' objections without fundamentally altering the purpose or the effects of the rules.