Sentence examples for cannot intend from inspiring English sources

"Combatants cannot intend to harm noncombatants, though proportionality permits them to act knowing some noncombatants may be harmed," the manual explains.

Collective intentions, or "we-intentions," entail the existence of individual intentions, or "I-intentions," because a person cannot intend that he and others do something without also intending that he do his part (and because there is no distinct entity, over and above the individual, that could be said to be the bearer of a collective intention).

For example, one constraint on the Doctrine holds that one cannot intend the means to the desired end.

If you cannot understand what it is to believe something, you cannot intend someone to believe something either (cf. Glüer & Pagin 2003).

He is not lying according to L13, either, at least if it is true that you cannot "intend to do something that you do not expect to succeed at" (Fallis 2009, 43 n 48; cf. Newey 1997, 96 97).

Second, one counts as intending an action only if one's beliefs are consistent with one's performing it; one cannot intend to do what one believes to be impossible (Davidson 1978, pp. 100 1).

Only if mothers cannot or intend not to breastfeed their newborns, the study team asks the parents for their consent to participate in the study and to be randomized to one of the three formula groups.

Parliament cannot have intended the law to be used in that way".

Surely, your call for "pressure on the Swiss" cannot be intended as an encouragement to United States authorities to violate treaty obligations in the interest of time and expediency.

One effect that cannot be intended, however, is a clue that, like the articles in a supermarket tabloid, the claims in the Franks ads are not to be believed.

The main restriction placed on this type of charity is that it cannot be intended to facilitate anything that Islamic law deems unlawful.