Sentence examples similar to the basic intent of the law from inspiring English sources

"We wanted to get back to what the basic intent of the Fair Labor Standards Act was," he said, referring to the law that established overtime pay during the Great Depression.

Wilson refused to accept the Lodge reservations, feeling that they would destroy the basic intent of the League.

This was the basic intent of Hitler's Final Solution, Mao's Cultural Revolution and Stalin's Gulag.

"The basic intent is for art to be part of the life and work of the campus," Ms. Farver said.

"The basic structure of the law doesn't change.

Last autumn a state judge said this thwarted the clear intent of the law.

But some people use the exclusion to evade the clear intent of the law.

The intent of the law is to foster basic research for developing new medicines.

That's not the intent of the law.

"These kinds are lawsuits are not living up to the intent of the law".

The intent of the law is to protect woodworking jobs in India.