Still, many a slip can occur between intent and practice, and people with the most severe reactions can hardly be careful enough.
Memorial has expanded in intent and practice over the years, becoming not only a research center, with libraries and archives around the country and a virtual library on the Gulag system, but also an important locus for human-rights work.
Its wholly unjustified rocket attacks on Israeli citizens, as well as the building of tunnels for terrorist purposes, show the organisation's murderous intent and practice towards Israel and its citizens.
The first half of the paper focuses on the intent and practice of diagnostic assessment, providing a general organizing scheme for a diagnostic assessment implementation process, from design to scoring.
"Each iteration of the global gag rule has been blatantly coercive, both in intent and practice, and is moving forward in lock-step with the Trump administration's non-stop assault on reproductive health services," said Heather Boonstra, head of public policy at the Guttmacher Institute, a research and advocacy group on female and reproductive health.
"Its wholly unjustified rocket attacks on Israeli citizens, as well as building of tunnels for terrorist purposes, show the organisation's murderous intent and practice towards Israel and its citizens," he said.
The new knowledge that this cross-country synthesis has begun to generate is that it is at the subnational level that the biggest gap between intent and practice was found in 2006-08.
A clear lesson from these country studies is that GHIs and other donors, as well as national governments, now need to acknowledge and address the residual problems in national level coordination and focus more attention and resources on strengthening subnational coordination, if the gap between intent and practice is to be narrowed.
In 1981, 112 years later, the railway is still going strong, virtually unchanged in intent and operating practices.
To close gaps between policy intent and actual practice, C-suite leaders must walk the talk and practice conscious inclusion.
