Sentence examples for unmistakable intent from inspiring English sources

Professor Manheim added that judges were generally averse to applying laws retroactively unless there was "unmistakable intent" to do so.

This clause was included by our country's founders with the unmistakable intent of preventing any body of the United States government from levying legal authority as a tool of tyranny by the religious majority.

The words from Mr Smith are unmistakable in intent.

But its intent was unmistakable.

The measure did not specifically mention China, but its intent was unmistakable.

By setting the bar for intervention so high — unmistakable evidence of clear intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group — the international community has stuck itself in a Catch-22: by the time it is clear that genocide is occurring, it is often too late to stop it.

And the intent is unmistakable: We've just won a major battle and taken concrete steps to eliminate slavery — one of the chief criticisms of the Union side in northern Italy was its seeming reluctance to declare the abolition of slavery — and we would never dream of interfering in the southern rebellion our friends in northern Italy are combating.

So far, the attacks have tried to frame the debate as one of government overreach or "secret science" but the intent is unmistakable: to preserve the status quo for some of the nation's worst polluters and keep EPA from doing its job of using the best available science to protect air quality.

Even its cover gives quiet but unmistakable evidence of its unorthodox intent: the 1981 edition opens from left to right, like a conventional English book, instead from right to left, as traditional volumes of Hebrew Scripture do.

Their intent, however, is unmistakable.

The message was even conversational in tone, as though Lincoln had been standing next to Grant, yet it was unmistakable as to its author's intent.