The three attributes, however, are all essential for the concept of providence: the divine being or beings must be well intentioned toward humans, must have the necessary wisdom to know what is good for humankind, and must have the power to act on this intention and insight.
Although some people who stated having the intention to take a test did not actually act on this intention, none of those people who did not hold this intention actually took the test.
That is to say, it's not illegal to have an "intention;" it is illegal to act on that intention.
"This court can't control defendant's motivations, which appear to be unchanged, but it can control defendant's opportunity to act on those intentions".
The challenge now is to surpass this initial stage of "good intentions" induced by external pressure and stimuli and to begin to act on the intentions.
In order to lie, "one must pretend sincerity, but also act on an intention that this sincerity be accepted otherwise one is pretending to lie, and not lying" (Simpson 1992, 629).
The literature has gone astray in understanding weakness of will in this way; weakness of will is actually quite a different phenomenon, in which the agent's better judgment plays no role.[14] For Holton, when ordinary people speak of weakness of will they have in mind a certain kind of failure to act on one's intentions.
While he welcomed the government's decision to keep open the possibility of joining the 12 countries that are using the euro, Mr. FitzGerald said, "The government needs to go further -- it must now act on its intention to remove the economic obstacles" between the British economy and euro membership.
This is likely due to the fact that Senegalese midwives do not have many opportunities to act on their intention to leave, which is related to the rigidity of the labour market for midwives in the country.
On Monday, William Hague, Britain's foreign secretary, told British lawmakers that "if the Iranian government confirms its intention to act on this, we shall respond robustly in consultation with our international partners," news agencies reported from London.
Wood describes this step as creating the window of opportunity to act on new intentions.
