Sentence examples for first intent from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile many hipsters make themselves digital documentarians first, intent on holding a video camera steady.

So my first intent was to imagine that, but then she came out... grouchy.

"The first intent is to satisfy donors' demands, which are multiple and not fully reflected in the Tokyo Conference document," said Candace Rondeaux, the head of the Kabul office of the International Crisis Group, an independent nongovernmental organization aimed at preventing and resolving conflicts.

Said, a pugnacious advocate for an independent state of Palestine became drawn into some visceral arguments in a way that helped politicise a book whose scholarly first intent had been to use, in Said's words, a "humanistic critique to introduce a longer sequence of thought and analysis to replace the short bursts of thought-stopping fury that so imprison us".

Balthier was at first intent to take Lemures' treasure, the Auracite, but knew the truth behind it and attempted to destroy the Auralith, eventually rejoining Vaan's group to fight the Judge of Wings, letting Vaan be the "leading man" while he himself leaves the limelight.

Our first intent was to measure resistance in a random sample of the general population.

He stole second as Brosius struck out, and while Luis Sojo stepped in to pinch-hit, Soriano began leading away from second, intent on taking third.

Everett was on first base in the second inning when Troy O'Leary chopped a grounder toward third baseman Scott Brosius, and he charged for second, intent on breaking up the double play.

Bellinger, leading off second, hesitated for a moment before realizing nobody was going to catch the ball and bolted for third, intent on scoring, as Knoblauch's hit bounded into center field.

Submission history affected postpublication impact: Resubmissions from other journals received significantly more citations than first-intent submissions, and resubmissions between different journal communities received significantly fewer citations.

(You also learn that what looks, at first, like intent often turns out to be incompetence).