You read the dictionary's thesaurian list of synonyms: "intention, intent, purpose, design, aim, end, object, objective, goal".
They asked that it outline the intent and goal of the article in significant detail.
In the summation, she gave a bracing description of the plotters' intent: "Their goal was to destroy the economy of the United States.
But it questioned the accuracy of punch-card ballots and suggested that states should at least adopt consistent standards for determining voter intent, a goal that it said was "practicable and, we conclude, necessary".
That said, a study of high school students by Tamir and Zohar (1991) suggested that older students can recognize the distinction between an anthropomorphic or teleological formulation (i.e., merely a convenient description) versus an anthropomorphic/teleological explanation (i.e., involving conscious intent or goal-oriented mechanisms as causal factors; see also Bartov 1978 , 1981.
In most situations, to teach conveys intent: a goal, plan and curriculum.
But if pursued with good intent, the goal is noble indeed: To figure it out in order to engage with an open heart.
In this alternative model, we declare an intent — a desired goal or end state — and the software systems autonomously figure out how to simply "make it so".
James MacGregor Burns tilted a notch toward neutrality in the matter, writing in 1970 that Roosevelt was "a deeply divided man," at once "the man of principle" and "the man of... narrow, manageable, short-run goals, intent always on protecting his power and authority in a world of shifting moods and capricious fortune".
TOO INTENT ON A GOAL The more important an objective is, the more a person will ignore risks to achieve it.
