Sentence examples for intention of conveying from inspiring English sources

And just as the information that smoking kills is offered with the intention to "provoke" the informee to quit, so is the image of a cadaver on a slab offered with the intention of conveying a piece of factual and uncontroversial information — smoking kills.

So long as the hearer can acquire some understanding through hearing, the utterance is significant even if the speaker is incapable of rational, abstract, thought, and even if the speaker has no intention of conveying a message.

In the late 20th and 21st centuries, crossdressing has also been used to express individual identity and may or may not have the intention of conveying a political or cultural statement.

The directive conveys a norm or, more precisely, conveys the institution's intention to create, by the act of conveying the intention, a norm (a standard that permits or mandates some action) with the same content.

As an essential component of teacher assessment literacy an understanding of "how to use assessment to maximize student motivation and learning" (Coombe, Troudi, & Al-Hamly, 2012, p. 25)—language teachers should realize the importance of conveying test developers' intention to students and raise their awareness of the abilities being measured throughout the test.

Original public understanding is likely to matter to this second originalist because the primary means of conveying one's intentions in the context of legal enactment are the words chosen to express one's intentions.

I didn't understand why Winslow Barnett snickered when I walked into the boys' locker room for PE wearing my purple bow tie and my fabulous bright green pants with the white piping down the side, but I knew that it was not his intention to convey approbation of my fashion sense.

The explanation is supposed to demonstrate that these locutions do not really name anything on the order of desires or intentions, but are rather a roundabout way of conveying information about the progress of an ongoing course of action.

Or is there an intention to convey a personal spirtual journey complete with the inherent conflicts and diversions of personal human frailties?

"Our company did not have any intention to convey discriminatory or racist messages," the company said in a statement.

Meaning "bank" involves the intention to convey not a belief or thought, but rather a concept.