Sentence examples for intent of relieving from inspiring English sources

After Charles was informed that Chester, his only remaining port, was under siege, he marched there with the intent of relieving the defenders, ordering 3,000 horse under the command of Marmaduke Langdale to camp outside the city while he and 600 others travelled into Chester itself on 23 September 1645.

A few months ago, my consultant oncologist sat with me in his room and wrote on the top of a consent form "Palliative chemotherapy with the intent of relieving symptoms".

It's not just high rents that tenants have to worry about – there are also an increasing number of fraudsters intent on relieving them of their hard-earned cash.

You don't have to be a socialist intent on relieving the rich of their plunder and redistributing it to the deserving poor.

Consider a healthcare professional who decides to prescribe a life-shortening amount of pain-killing medicine; a sanctity-of-life doctrine-supporting observer subscribing to the DDE would want to know whether the healthcare professional was intent on shortening the patient's life or whether he or she was intent on relieving the patient's suffering.

As interfering with the dying process by causing patients to become unconscious, even with the intent to relieve physical suffering, was viewed as inhumane in Chinese traditional society, these results reflect to some extent a shift in end-of-life values.

The most commonly endorsed reason for NSSI is affect regulation with the intent to relieve negative affective states such as tension, depression, and/or anger.

Services of curative care are defined as those where the principal medical intent of care is to relieve symptoms or reduce severity or protect against exacerbation or complication of illness or injury.

(Whether her intent was to relieve pain or end life remains in dispute).

Then there is the palliative approach, where the primary intent is to relieve symptoms such as pain.

Its intent is to relieve pain and restricted movement.