18. "Shared Intention", Faces, 112.
This was the one that said that England, for all their coltish promise and good intentions, faced not so much a moment of truth as a long and hurtful mugging.
In the first part of the study, the scientists observed strangers during their first conversation -- either face-to-face or in a web-based chat -- figuring that if there are indeed a set of non-verbal cues that consistently convey trustworthiness, then people should be better at judging others' intentions face-to-face.
The most likely challengers are the three who had already declared their intention to face Mr. Ahmadinejad before the registration period.
Mr. Ortega, who had long invoked his immunity to avoid legal proceedings, went to a criminal court in Managua on Wednesday to declare his innocence and his intention to face the charges.
He had been delayed nearly four weeks, and during this time a powerful army had been collected in Vienna, which Suleiman had not the intention to face.
In the case of the Rahman-Ruiz fight, the W.B.A. heavyweight champion is Roy Jones Jr., who has no intention of facing the Rahman-Ruiz winner.
That is, they contract based simply on formal contractual capacity and take each other's stated intentions at face value, never second-guessing each other's substantive purposes.
A contractual promisor must take her promisee's intentions at face value; she may not look behind them, and even override them, in the service of the promisee's true interests, as a fiduciary must do for her beneficiary.
Jeez, people, I know the president's behavior seems odd given that in eight years George W. Bush couldn't string together two sentences without mangling the English language, and that he had the intellectual curiosity of a slug, but how about we just take Obama's intentions at face value?
