The phrase "a weak intention" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a lack of strong commitment or resolve towards a particular goal or action.
Example: "His decision to start a new project was based on a weak intention, as he had not fully committed to the idea."
Alternatives: "a feeble intention" or "a half-hearted intention".
Healthy women showed a stronger decrease in perceived risk than affected women, and a decreased risk perception was related to a weaker intention.
Intention for prophylactic mastectomy was also predicted by the change in perceived risk after the counselling session (β=0.23; P=0.002); women who shifted towards a lower perceived risk, reported a weaker intention for prophylactic mastectomy.
First, the objective risk information had an indirect effect on the intention through the perceived risk of developing breast cancer: counselling a lower objective risk decreased the perceived risk after counselling, which related to a weaker intention to opt for prophylactic mastectomy.
Most people had at least weak intention, but only a small fraction of them had a strong intention.
Most farmers (92.5%) revealed strong intention to continue to use improved grassland (which requires active management and investment of resources) for the next 12 months; whereas 7.5% of farmers were undecided and showed weak intention, which was associated with farmers whose main income was from non-farm activities as well as with farmers who had only recently started using improved grassland.
An important finding of this study is that both U.S. and Turkish students showed relatively weak intention to start their own new venture.
To fall back into the lassitude of the last 12 years, to talk, to discuss, to debate but never act; to declare our will but not enforce it; to combine strong language with weak intentions, a worse outcome than never speaking at all.
Overall, physicians have weak intentions to practice euthanasia in palliative care.
Concerning the sample from Turkey, the analysis revealed a weak relationship between intention and use behavior, which was rendered insignificant -or, in other words, masked - when the external factors that affect use were taken into account.
