Sentence examples for covert intention from inspiring English sources

Charlotte Gray is a passionate, intelligent Scotswoman who falls in love with a handsome airman (Rupert Penry-Jones), but when he is shot down over France, she accepts a mission in the country with the covert intention of finding him.

Although he repeatedly renounces efforts to seek Tibetan independence, they say that he harbors a covert intention to split Tibet from the rest of China, as evidenced by his willingness to allow others in the exile community to call for independence.

Tierney suggests that Neel's covert intention was not to protect the Yanomami from measles but to test their response to a live-virus vaccine; Neel believed that the Yanomamis' survival-of-the-fittest lifestyle had given them immune systems more robust than those of us in pampered modern societies have.

Finally, because censorship and moral policing have often prevented artists from making work that is openly erotic, it is worth drawing attention to the existence of covertly erotic art, that is, art made with the covert intention to stimulate its target audience sexually and that succeeds to some extent in doing so.

The plaza will undoubtedly look charming and be a lovely addition to London life, but its covert design intention is stark: it's there to prevent terrorist ram-raids.

If good reviews, too, were prima facie evidence of covert intentions, then how was an honest reviewer to express himself?

Yet even as they meet the recognized best practices of their profession, their colleagues are judging their covert intentions and moral fiber.

As a potential candidate for these more complex scenarios we predicted that the medial prefrontal cortex would be more strongly activated due to its involvement in disambiguating information, including discrepancies between one's own expectation and others' (covert) intentions [29].

The newspaper quoted a Chinese analyst as calling Google's complaint "a U.S. government-initiated strategy with covert political intentions".

Secondly, an experimental result was given to show that humans use verbal communication to establish group intention by explicitly announcing covert states or processes of cognition.

In suggesting that "institutional racism" can explain how anti-racist norms coexist with persistent conditions of racial oppression, I am also directing us away from another kind of explanation, which sees the issue chiefly as a problem of hypocrisy or bad intentions, sub- conscious or covert racism.