My chief intention was to divide and move the peonies, hosta and St. John's wort, all affable perennials that could fill in bare spots.
The classic texts are David Niven's Bring On The Empty Horses and Clive James's Unreliable Memoirs, whose chief intention is to amuse.
Perhaps its chief intention, in the words of one adviser, was as a "psychology-management exercise" to boost the stockmarket and shake Japanese households and businesses out of their deflationary gloom.
And in such an unequal society, the financial returns from education are very high (see chart 3).Labour's failureWhen Mr Blair declared education his priority in 1997, his chief intention was to satisfy concerned middle-class parents.
The chief intention of the treaties establishing the three original European Communities, especially the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community TECC), was to foster economic integration among the original six Member States; the legal instruments granted therein to the European institutions were neither designed nor suited for political integration.
Now, China wants deliveries of the SU-30 attack jet, a more advanced version of the SU-27.Encircling the empty fortressEven if all this is mere atmospherics—and even if the border agreement and confidence-building measures are just re-treaded versions of deals reached, announced and feted last year there is no doubt about both countries' chief intention.
Instead, they said, the broker "churned" the account, allegedly making a large volume of sales and purchases with the chief intention of generating commissions.
Stories of one sort or another, built around individual characters and linked to particular human situations: such are their chief goals and intentions.
Kate Whitley co-founded the Multi-Story Orchestra in a car park in Peckham, London, with several intentions, chief among them getting an audience closer to the music they were hearing and away from ingrained listening habits of the concert hall.
The new station chief had no intention of leaving Pakistan, American officials said.
A top aide to Mr. Dombeck, Chris Wood, said tonight that the Forest Service chief had no intention of resigning.
