Sentence examples for acts of intention from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "acts of intention" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to deliberate actions taken with a specific purpose or goal in mind.
Example: "The committee evaluated the acts of intention behind each proposal to determine their potential impact on the community."
Alternatives: "deliberate actions" or "intentional acts".

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They include wrongful acts of intention formation, as when one maliciously decides to kill another, and the volitional activity through which we execute wrong intentions — e.g., the effort of will aimed at carrying out the intention to murder.

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On his view, an agent decides for a certain reason, and citing that reason explains the decision, just in case, in cognizance of that reason, and in an intrinsically intentional act of intention formation, the agent forms an intention the content of which reflects the very goals presented in that reason.

The word Hajj means "to intend a journey", which connotes both the outward act of a journey and the inward act of intentions.

All the indications are that Priest rejects such a view: "an act of pure intention can intend an object even when there are other indiscriminable objects" (2005:142005

While not directly relevant, the poem does discuss racial miscommunication and the failure by many to understand that even if some actions are not motivated by prejudice (Zimmerman's shooting and the Compton Cookout... though the latter is much harder to justify), the racial tension created by the act exists regardless of intention.

Always surprising and sometimes disappointing at first, the mere acts of focus and intention definitely stir the pot.

This prevents us from explaining what it is to act intentionally in terms of intention as a mental state.

Not surprisingly, in spite of the Act's intention of punishing would-be traffickers, it was used to arrest and charge the women it was "protecting," making it a moralizing arm of the state which effectively limited the ability of all women to travel for work or pleasure.

Let random acts of kindness be your intention and see how this effects your well being.

In Stubart Investments Limited v The Queen, the Supreme Court of Canada decided to reject a strict approach and instead use the rule that "the words of an Act are to be read in their entire context and in their grammatical and ordinary sense harmoniously with the scheme of the Act, the object of the Act, and the intention of Parliament".

By rigid introspection and mental struggle, the mystic tried to purify his baser self from even the smallest signs of selfishness, thus attaining ikhlāṣ, absolute purity of intention and act.

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