Sentence examples for a serious intention from inspiring English sources

If there is a serious intention to purchase, the ban can be extended by a further six months to finish fundraising.

The comte's experiment has a serious intention: to prove that all humans are essentially the same, irrespective of race or religious tradition.

The ad has a serious intention: attacking Mitt Romney for suggesting he would crack down on public funding for public television, while not saying he'd crack down on big banks.

Brandon Cole, who wrote "Imperfect Love," calls his play a romantic farce, but it never quite ascends to that level of antic lunacy, and in any case there is something in the work that suggests a serious intention.

Arts Council England said the ban would be extended for a year until March 2016 "if a serious intention to raise funds to purchase the statue is made", with any eligible institution able to reclaim any VAT on the sale.

The truth: The quite-similar Polly Scattergood hasn't quite made it yet, but putting BJH in a studio with Ben (Blur, Doves) Hillier for her forthcoming debut album suggests a serious intention on the part of her record company to Make Her Happen.

"What's led to this current problem is a sense that the government doesn't have any serious intention of sorting the European Union out," he said.

"Some people have called it a gimmick, but there is a very serious intention here.

Now that everyone is too broke to ante up for "Dr. 90210," let's bring back inner virtue, the ability to frown and also an aura of serious intention that could become the hottest, the sexiest and the most marketable of visual messages in the new atmosphere of credible change.

A Stone character is equally at home delivering erudite lectures on contemporary art as he is, in "The Archer," stringing a crossbow with the serious intention of killing his wife and her lover.

And they buoy the intellectual satisfaction provided by "Unwrap Your Candy," a show with the whimsical facade of entertainment but the serious intention of addressing the theatergoer as a partner in an enterprise both thoughtful and adult.