After a few manic moments and a meltdown on CNBC, Teddy returns to Nigeria, intent on hand-delivering food and supplies to the boy's village.
Democrats said that by insisting on full repeal of the tax, Republicans were intent on handing over a huge chunk of projected federal budget surpluses to the rich while doing nothing to address issues of concern to working people.
Could even the most obdurate Republican, intent on handing Obama another defeat, hold out against aid for 9/11 responders when Fox News was telling them that enough is enough?
While overlooking their role in fueling health care inflation in both private and public programs, conservatives are intent on handing the party in power a defeat over health care reform, but at the same time maneuvering to expand future health care markets.
At the Oak Pointe center, he was intent on shaking hands with each of the 52 residents seated in easy chairs and wheelchairs and on sofas.
If the West reaches an accommodation with Assad will that drive more Syrians to ISIS? Russia states an intent to fight Isil on the one hand, and to support the Bashar al-Assad regime on the other.
Clearly Obama is intent on shaking every hand in the room.
During the ovation Mr. Ozawa walked among the players, intent on shaking every hand he could reach.
In addition, a much diminished aristocracy was still intent on retaining a hand in the arbitration of culture.
Which yanks us back to the sober topic of why everyone seems intent on biting the hand that feeds him.
But while her mother's "work" involved only charities and her syndicated gardening column, her daughter is intent on getting her hands much dirtier.
