Sentence examples for acting with intention. from inspiring English sources

In my experience, acting with intention and agency brings hope and empowerment.

A recent exceptional dining experience provided a valuable lesson for how acting with intention and following a defined process separates the good from the great.

It is not that the mere presence of a mental state intending of … that it … constitutes acting with an intention, or acting intentionally, but that intention-with-which is the basic unanalyzed material out of which to reconstruct the unity of intention.

When one engages in sexual intercourse using contraceptives one has the intention of rendering oneself infertile, one is not acting with the intention of engaging in normal sexual intercourse, just at an infertile time.

We see a person acting with the intention of bringing happiness to someone else, and by the frame of our nature pleasure wells up in us.

It is sometimes — but not always — used by people who appear to be acting with good intentions, and who are in turn surprised that anyone would protest.

While they were undoubtedly acting with good intentions, she thought, the crowds of scientists who were now encamped in Valdez some working under the aegis of NOAA and some under contract to Exxon seemed to be participating in a kind of "feeding frenzy" of experiments and studies, many of questionable value, as if simply keeping busy were an end in itself.

Roy Perry, a Conservative councillor and chair of the Local Government Association's children and Young people board said he believed the government was acting with good intentions, but added: "These are assets that have been looked after, protected and at times enhanced with investment by the council tax payers in a particular area.

"European lawmakers are acting with best intentions, but you have to ask whether their policies are appropriate when the market place is in such a parlous state," said Peter Alexiadis, a partner in the Brussels office of the law firm Squire Sanders & Dempsey.

While they were undoubtedly acting with good intentions, she thought, the crowds of scientists who were now encamped in Valdez — some working under the aegis of NOAA and some under contract to Exxon — seemed to be participating in a kind of "feeding frenzy" of experiments and studies, many of questionable value, as if simply keeping busy were an end in itself.

Cloud infrastructure providers are not bad guys or acting with bad intentions.