Sentence examples for as intending from inspiring English sources

Trying to convey one's beliefs can be thought of as intending someone to share one's beliefs; but, fairly clearly, you can intend by an action that someone form a belief that p without meaning p by your action.

He has since lost his enthusiasm for popular music, describing his collaborations as "intending to make a filet mignon and getting a Big Mac instead".

But Hawthorne wrote, "When Nature gives a young man no other utilizable faculty, she must be understood as intending him for a soldier".

Mr Erdogan and his lieutenants like to project toughness in their rhetoric and their actions, so they should not complain too much if they are portrayed at home and abroad as intending to turn Turkey into an authoritarian state in which all the levers of power are in their hands.

In an e-mail message to state officials obtained by The New York Times, one auditor noted that many students who had left school were coded as intending to enroll in an alternative or high school equivalency program, and were, by Texas rules, not dropouts.

But this does not mean that we cannot see me as intending there to be a formally valid inference from your words to my belief.

It worked as intended.

We respond as intended.

The operation did not go as intended.

Perhaps the burial worked as intended.

Instead, it has succeeded exactly as intended.