Though he referred to Pakistan and Iran as "dear neighbors" in the speech, Mr. Karzai seemed intent on assuring Afghans of a defense against the insurgencies fostered next door, implicitly criticizing the two countries for not doing more to curb militants.
Barack Obama, who came to office not least because of his opposition to the war in Iraq, went to Cairo in 2009 intent on assuring the Muslim world of a new kind of policy: engagement without hegemony.
Iran is intent on assuring its hold over the country regardless of what happens to Mr. Assad — and Israel and the West must prevent this at all costs.
Notably, as we were intent on assuring a focus on HRAs and keeping the sample from mirroring a population of heterosexuals at risk of HIV due to injection drug use, the team decided to 'break' chains where referred respondents identified as IDU or resided outside of the HRAs.
The servants' rooms seemed routine — each had a sink, and there was a tiny shared bath — although the brochure made particular note of the intent "to assure their contentment in service".
It's a way of assuring each other that we have no hostile intent, anthropologists say.
Such a denial would be contrary to the core intent of laws designed to assure fairness and equality, which urge treating people as individuals rather than judging them because they are a member of a group.
"He will report to a trustee whose duty is to assure that the intent of the agreement with the commission is met".
The intent of Bush's exemption was to assure an agency affiliated with one religious denomination that it could continue to employ members of that denomination.
Duarte ruled the state "with the intent of hiding or denying these crimes, and assuring their culprits a free rein," the International Crisis Group reports.
The dissenting court minority said the decision disregarded the intent of Congress and "all but assures that Medicare's administrative process will cease to function as a meaningful limit on judicial review".
