This attacking intent draws the Villa midfield further forward as well; both Sanchez and Gueye position themselves higher up the pitch over the course of the match and only drop further back once Villa are comfortably in control of proceedings.
Mr. Lamb was intent on drawing out the composer's wishes.
England, meantime, was intent on drawing up a code of conduct relating to the players.
The Navel-gazing award Theatre this year was intent on drawing our attention to the fact that it's all pretend.
Last summer, Bernanke inadvertently caused a substantial rise in mortgage rates by appearing to suggest that the Fed was already intent on drawing down its asset purchases.
In both the '92 convention and the '80 debate, the challenger successfully escaped from the caricature that his rival was intent on drawing.
In the meantime, staff members are intent on drawing attention to the plight of The Rocky or perhaps, as Mr. Littwin muses on the site, "the odd billionaire to join our cause".
Israelis often focus on intent in drawing a distinction between Israel and Hamas — saying their forces kill civilians only as an unfortunate consequence of war while Hamas aims attacks at civilians.
In particular, the events suggested that both ends of the ideological spectrum were intent on drawing the administration into a more public discussion of its legal rationale for its use of drones — including in one case to kill an American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical cleric and Qaeda planner, in Yemen — and questions about due process for terrorism suspects targeted by the United States.
Now, he appears intent on drawing the contrast between his early opposition to the war and the Senate votes to authorize it by Mr. Edwards, who has since repudiated his vote and apologized for it, and Mrs. Clinton, who has not apologized but has said she would not have supported the resolution had she known then what she knows now.
Mr. Greenspan seemed intent on drawing a distinction between raising or lowering interest rates based on movements in the stock market -- a strategy he said would be ineffective and perhaps inappropriate for the Fed to attempt -- and acknowledging that Wall Street's effects on the rest of the economy are so powerful that they have to be taken into account in monetary policy.
