Sentence examples for directly intended from inspiring English sources

From this and similar results, he deduces a universal "intention principle", according to which intended harm is morally worse than harm that is foreseen but not directly intended.

Windsor now seems to have consequences not directly intended by the Supreme Court but clearly anticipated.

But they flatly denied that the effort was directly intended to promote childbirth.

We demonstrate that institutional change can be preceded by a range of innovation system-building activities that are not directly intended to bring about institutional change but are required in order for institutional change to take place.

The dismantling of the educational and welfare systems and the health service may not be directly intended to restore the pre-1939 or even pre-1914 status quo, but the powers that be will find the effect quite acceptable.

Members of the House say their unsolicited e-mail messages are not junk e-mailings, because the messages are directly intended for constituents who have the right to opt out, and the messages have received positive reactions.

He cannot, of course, directly intend the rebellion of sinners, nor the destruction of the finally unrepentant.

In fact, most sociological research focusing on relationships in the market has implicitly touched on the concept of patron-client networks, even though they are not directly intend to examine such network.

Van Gelder recognizes that there is nothing resembling a 'perception' of the past in his model, but he presents this as a positive: he suggests Husserl's talk of perceptions of the past is confused and unnecessary, and that he only used such formulations because 'he had no better model of how something could "directly intend" the past' (1997: §40).

The principle of double effect could arguably be used as an ethical dividing line that approves of palliative sedation but forbids euthanasia, since the latter but not the former directly intends death (as a means to the good end of relieving the patient of unbearable suffering).

Scout bees probably travel in a direction and stop when they find something that smells nice, as opposed to bee-lining to a distant hive directly (pun intended).