Sentence examples for intentions and abilities from inspiring English sources

We no longer trust our own intentions and abilities, and rightly so.

Individuals' moral worth is determined not by how much they actually benefit the world, which may be beyond their control (they may die young, for instance (EC3)), but by their intentions and abilities, which are largely within their control.

If you are making a widget, do it with the best of your intentions and abilities.

For the remainder of the first half Barnet tried to show the tidy passing style that the club is striving to cultivate, but the gulf between intention and ability often seemed gaping.

For this reason, the ability to make such a threat credibly requires more than a simple intention and ability to execute the threat, but rather a whole system that effectively removes decision from the process (by, say, building redundancy and automation into it).

The towering new African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa was a largely welcomed $200m gift from Beijing and a clear testimony of China's intention, and ability, to engage with individual states as well as an entire continent, presenting it with new opportunities and challenges.

The theory of planned behavior (18) and its extended versions (19) have suggested that in the absence of environmental barriers, any behavior is more likely to occur if there is a strong intention and ability to carry it out.

They tailored PSA testing decisions specifically for the personal circumstances of each patient, according to the patient's risk profile (age, family history), life expectancy, interest, motivation, reason for wanting a PSA test, cancer anxiety, or intention and ability to act on abnormal test results.

The type B model is a hypothetical future model of the world based on intentions and their ability to be achieved.

They have said they are "cautiously optimistic" about Afghanistan, in the words of Mr. Eikenberry and General Rodriguez, but they have also made clear that questions loom about the government's capacity to provide services, about Pakistan's intentions and about the ability of the relatively inexperienced Afghan security forces to protect the country.

This administration tried to tell the American people that Iraq had something to do with 9/11, with al Qaeda's role in 9/11, with the anthrax attack; that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction; that Iraq had the intention and the ability to attack this nation.