Sentence examples for was to rectify from inspiring English sources

To its credit, it changed its stance in July 2011, saying that since the goal of the law was to "rectify a discredited policy," the rule should apply to all defendants sentenced after the law's passage.

It may be said that the thrust of educational policy in Nationalist China was to rectify the imbalance of the past, especially the nonvocational literary tradition of premodern days.

The lawsuit was the first of its kind ever directed against a police department in New York State — justified, in the Attorney General's estimation, because an entire institution, comprising twenty-seven officers, had careered out of control and because the people whose duty it was to rectify the situation had looked the other way.

The purpose of Lambda was to rectify the effects of gravity and allow the whole system to stay balanced.

He leveled the crowd with these stories, as his intention was to rectify any misconception that he grew up privileged with a mapped out path to success.

If not, our aim was to rectify this by offering to provide GP surgeries with information compiled by healthcare professionals in the field of CFS research.

It must have been to rectify this that they invented the Broadway-memento kiosk.

The goal of the reorder operation is to rectify this using 6m multiplexers to create the appropriate sequence of comparisons.

"The Master said, 'To govern (cheng) is to rectify (cheng)" (Analects XII:17: James Legge, Chinese Classics, Volume I, p. 258).

Fortunately, there was to time to rectify it.

This failure was to be rectified.