Sentence examples for intention point from inspiring English sources

"From an intention point of view, you believe it," Frankel added, before offering further encouragement.

People who worry about China's intention point in particular to its rapid military buildup as a sign of its increased financial wherewithal and nascent strategic ambitions that will inevitably challenge America's dominance in the Pacific.

As this conception of communication as "connecting thoughts" suggests, the Mohists see language as enabling speakers to express their yi (thought, intention, point) (A92), a view shared by other early Chinese theories of language, including those of the Xunzi and The Annals of Lu Buwei.

Conditions differed with respect to the communicative intention: pointing was either addressed to the left or right person (Left CP and Right CP), or not addressing anybody (NCP).

"And survey indicators of employment intentions point to further heavy job losses over the coming quarters".

Gaddis mainly kept up with scholars and dissertation scribes; he was constantly called on to clarify his intentions, point out the importance of neglected passages, elucidate hidden structures.

"Mixed reports of employment intentions point to an ongoing turbulent economic climate that is plagued with uncertainty," he added.

The question about voting intentions pointed to the winner in 69 percent.

But airline executives expressed deep skepticism about the initiative's green intentions, pointing to similar taxes adopted in Britain and Ireland, which, the executives said, had yielded little in terms of concrete steps to reduce carbon emissions.

In response to Obama's trip to Havana, the Chinese state media warned Cubans about America's hostile intentions, pointing to a history of American "arrogance" and "interventionism" in Latin America.

He there states that he had always thought that a demonstration is "typically directed by the speaker's intention to point at a perceived individual on whom he has focused".