But as the example demonstrates, only the specification of intention can stabilize the meanings of words because the dictionary gives you too many choices and no way of narrowing them.
Malaysians talk of "Ali-Baba" firms, where Ali (an ethnic Malay) lends his name, for a fee, to Baba (a Chinese businessman) to win a government contract.Although these policies tend to start with the intention of favouring narrow groups, they spread as others clamour to be included.
are common results of narrowed arteries.
As Langston Hughes had suspected, many Southern officials had no intention of letting white and black Americans walk through the narrow corridors of the train together.
I had no intention of doing this, but I've been dismayed at how narrow and shallow Labour's debate has been so far.
This criterion is still relative to our present stage of explicit axiomatic theorizing but comes nonetheless closer to the original intention of Carnap's theory-observation distinction, according to which observation is understood in the narrow sense of unaided perception.
The narrow wording was intended to make it clear that the administration had no intention of being drawn into to the wider Syrian civil war.
Still, she has every intention of returning.
But he has no intention of leaving.
I had no intention of dying.
