Sentence examples for intention and ability from inspiring English sources

For the remainder of the first half Barnet tried to show the tidy passing style that the club is striving to cultivate, but the gulf between intention and ability often seemed gaping.

The towering new African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa was a largely welcomed $200m gift from Beijing and a clear testimony of China's intention, and ability, to engage with individual states as well as an entire continent, presenting it with new opportunities and challenges.

For this reason, the ability to make such a threat credibly requires more than a simple intention and ability to execute the threat, but rather a whole system that effectively removes decision from the process (by, say, building redundancy and automation into it).

The theory of planned behavior (18) and its extended versions (19) have suggested that in the absence of environmental barriers, any behavior is more likely to occur if there is a strong intention and ability to carry it out.

They tailored PSA testing decisions specifically for the personal circumstances of each patient, according to the patient's risk profile (age, family history), life expectancy, interest, motivation, reason for wanting a PSA test, cancer anxiety, or intention and ability to act on abnormal test results.

We no longer trust our own intentions and abilities, and rightly so.

Individuals' moral worth is determined not by how much they actually benefit the world, which may be beyond their control (they may die young, for instance (EC3)), but by their intentions and abilities, which are largely within their control.

If you are making a widget, do it with the best of your intentions and abilities.

This administration tried to tell the American people that Iraq had something to do with 9/11, with al Qaeda's role in 9/11, with the anthrax attack; that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction; that Iraq had the intention and the ability to attack this nation.

The intervention aimed at increasing patients' intention and perceived ability to act in future situations where they risk experiencing abuse.

The last set of questions consisted of the Intention to act in Situations of Abuse in Health Care Questionnaire (ISAHCQ), aiming at capturing participants' intention and perceived ability to act in situations of abuse in health care (Table  3 ).