Sentence examples for intention of acting from inspiring English sources

The questions help determine whether a person is experiencing suicidal thoughts ("Have you actually had any thoughts of killing yourself?"), and if so, whether the thoughts include method ("Have you been thinking about how you might do this?") and intent ("Have you had these thoughts and some intention of acting on them?").

But sure, Summer Phoenix has every intention of acting again, because 'it's my first love,' she says.

In every one of my previous positions, I fought against releasing terrorists, and I have no intention of acting any differently when I'm in the cabinet.

Senate officials said they had no intention of acting on a similar proposal, but the Democratic leader, Senator Tom Daschle, said he doubted the House vote would put the matter to rest.

Ms. Pinkett, who heads the Committee on Governmental Operations, says she has no intention of acting on a measure to make the Administration for Children's Services an independent agency.

I'd come up to university with no intention of acting – I thought of myself as an unsuccessful schoolboy actor – but I got involved in a play called AC/DC and when we performed it, one of the Footlights committee was in the audience.

After graduating, he went to George Washington University in Washington DC, but quit after a year and enrolled at the Cornish School in Seattle, originally with the intention of studying acting.

All we need to do is inspect the correspondence of intention and action given the difficulty of acting on the intention.

Very roughly, we might say that a display of strength of will is a particular relation between a person's intention and corresponding action: it is a matter of acting on an intention given serious obstacles to the action.

I had no intention of harming him, or of acting in any way that could be interpreted as aggressive, but had I sought only to steer him gently towards the police I might have faced a range of exotic charges, from false imprisonment to aggravated assault.

"Intentions to act … are the expectations of acting that issue from reflective theoretical reasoning" (Velleman 1989: 98).