original intent
collocation in Englishmeaningsoforiginalandintent
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original
adjective
uk/əˈrɪdʒ.ən.əl/us/əˈrɪdʒ.ən.əl/
existing since the beginning, or being the earliest form ...
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intent
noun[U]
uk/ɪnˈtent/us/ɪnˈtent/
the fact that you want and plan to ...
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(Definition oforiginalandintentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The questions oforiginalintentor purpose were of paramount importance.
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The author also describes the historical developments leading to the abandonment of partial advance funding, as was the legislation'soriginalintent.
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Theoriginalintentof this study was to examine the developmental time course of phonological processing in speech production.
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Its consideration goes beyond ouroriginalintentfor this study.
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Cooperative judges encouraged grand juries to broaden their investigations beyond theiroriginalintent as a way to prejudice public opinion in the city against labor.
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Legal historians have tended, when establishing a wider context for their analyses oforiginalintent, to approach the question via the texts of late eighteenth-century state constitutions.
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Proponents of proportional representation do not have to useoriginalintentas their interpretive filter because their arguments for reform stand on strong contemporar y claims.
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Although a close reading of these texts is often successfully attempted, sometimes the author misses theoriginalintentof the writers, substituting his own reading of certain details.
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Most of all, camp is about appropriation and a usage of popular culture which might not accord with the masculinist status quo, despite any notion of 'originalintent' or authorship.
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I want to put another thought on this question of how we are departing from theoriginalintent.
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Our reforms were designed to bring it back to itsoriginalintent.
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This surely is a sad perversion of theoriginalintentof what are, in effect, antiquated century-old laws kitted out in 1975 dress.
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It was amended and compromised, and itsoriginalintentwas weakened by the same voices that we have heard today.
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It has outlived itsoriginalintentby many years.
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It has been used as a tax shelter and for tax avoidance whereas theoriginalintentwas to reward and facilitate enterprise.
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I want to give three or four other examples to show why extending the waiting period by three months could be detrimental to ouroriginalintent.
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For that reason only, we had to reconstruct the rules to return to theoriginalintentof some 25 years ago when the concession was introduced.
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Further, we also know that in some cases the courts may have extended the policy intentions of the framers of those benefits beyond theoriginalintent.
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I was never clear whether theoriginalintentwas that that should be funded like an insurance scheme, or whether it should be a pay-as-you-go system from day one.
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Hisoriginalintentwas to start a farm on the property.
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