Sentence examples for intent rather than from inspiring English sources

Crucially, it defines him as an artist of intent rather than incident.

The game is a statement of intent rather than anything resembling a final delivery.

It just means their cars stayed in park - by intent, rather than the usual rage-inducing standstill.

His esoteric inscriptions reveal a controlled intent rather than sheer lunacy and suggest a knowledgeable, if hard to unravel, commentary on China's contemporary predicament.

But Protestant leaders in the embattled province expressed skepticism, welcoming the move but questioning whether an announcement of intent rather than actual weapons destruction would break the deadlock.

He sees the Sun as a statement of wider Murdoch intent, rather than a nifty idea for tapping a market the Mirror had grown too serious to serve.

Besides pragmatism, however, there is another source that the more progressive Islamists such as Rachid Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia's Ennahda, seem willing to utilize for modernizing their future vision: simply a non-literalist approach to the sharia, which will focus on its "intents" rather than the medieval means that were used to serve those intents.

The gull appears to have been guilty of bad aim rather than evil intent, going for the snack but getting James instead.

The later efforts seemed intent on disguising rather than revealing component materials.

The Austrian style is mainly static, intent on observing (rather than participating).

Bureaucrats, it seems, are still intent on fiddling, rather than tackling the roots of Japan's financial problems.