Moreover, collective acceptance is not simply a matter of psychological attitudes standing in some straightforward causal relation to the external world as is the case, for instance, with common or garden-variety intentions, including the joint intentions definitive of basic joint actions.
He said there was no definitive deal, only an "intention" expressed by Cash that they wanted to find an agreeable landing point.
Not definitive, just definite.
Does your intention have a definitive beginning (past), middle (present), and end (future) for the story?
We selected these procedures because they are simple and well-known methods that reveal basic population structure, and we have not attempted to construct confidence estimates because it is not our intention to draw definitive conclusions about specific relationships.
But neither has he put an end to the speculation by issuing a definitive, Shermanesque statement about his intentions.
Therefore, healthy relations with the alumni can not only prove to be beneficial for the university in the long run, but may also play a definitive role in curbing migratory intentions in the future.
On its first page "The Emperor of All Maladies" sets forth its intention: to be a definitive history of how cancer has been understood, treated, feared and politicized throughout all of recorded human history.
The book is far from definitive, though: the groundwork for the intention economy is only just now being laid, and it'll be a long time before it becomes an everyday reality.
"We had no intention of making a definitive sociological statement about intelligence gathering.… Had we known what the climate of the country was going to be we would have gone deeper.
