Sentence examples for a legitimate intent from inspiring English sources

One respondent explained, "you can't just go around sticking pins into people and drawing their blood unless there's at least a legitimate intent to … provide a cure for something or to understand a disease".

Because they do have a legitimate purpose.

But it said it "did not believe that the Telegraph – although acting no doubt with legitimate intent – had sufficient grounds, on a prima facie basis, to justify their decision to send the reporters in".

That might technically make it more of a legitimate act of war in intent, than an act of terror.

In some jurisdictions, possession of tools for bypassing locks is a crime even if you have no criminal intent and a legitimate reason for it.

Stringer, the refined, upwardly mobile consigliere to the decidedly gangster Avon Barksdale, was intent on becoming a legitimate businessman.

Our intent was to create a legitimate theater festival that incorporated the Broadway community into an environment that truly supported talented writers at little cost for the participants.

Ignorance has often been a legitimate defense for a corporate executive; under the law, prosecutors must prove intent.

The law served a "legitimate regulatory objective" of providing information, he said, and was punitive neither in its intent nor its effect.

These websites will help prove that the chain letter is just a hoax or a legitimate cause (although more often than not it is just a fake email with no real positive intent).

A legitimate question.