"direct intention" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a person's purpose when taking an action. For example, "John took a job in a different city with the direct intention of finding new career opportunities."
Though he says that is not his direct intention, "the demonised image of Iran is related to the government, not the people.
"Now apparently the commanders must have had a direct intention to commit crimes – and not just knowledge or suspicion that the crimes were or would be committed".
"In the opinion of experts, it's practically impossible to prove the presence of direct intention in the actions of a journalist," the court said in a statement.
Griff Rhys-Jones, who backed the new scheme, said today: "There is a moment when it is optimal for people to give but without the means and the direct intention to give at that moment, we actually put it to the back of our mind and forget about it".
It's unlikely we'll ever know if Steve Jobs pulled out from the show with the direct intention of lowering expectations.
Women are many times portray, without really this direct intention, as poor beings struggling for a better life in a better world.
Online dating is cheaper and has clearer, more direct intentions: everyone on the site is looking to meet people, so there's no need to display the conventional, expensive social plumage (rounds of drinks, fancy dinners) just to assess a person's interest.
Perry (2009, p. 60) argues that the referent of an utterance of a demonstrative is the object of a directing intention, and offers a rather elaborate theory of directing intentions that is inspired by some brief remarks from Kaplan.
It is, after all, the present directed intention that is supposed to guide causally the ongoing activity of the agent [see also Searle 1983].
He then calls such intentions directing intentions and says that he has come to "regard the directing intention, at least in the case of perceptual demonstratives, as criterial, and to regard the demonstration as a mere externalization of this inner intention".
However, most causalists agree with Davidson's later view that the concept of 'present directed intention' is needed in any plausible causal account of intention in action and acting intentionally.
