Sentence examples similar to intentions exerted from inspiring English sources

Republicans seized on the new development to assail Barack Obama for failing to grasp Mr Putin's true intentions –to exert new influence in the Middle East.

As filmmakers look for money, Fraser is less concerned that editorial standards will be jeopardised by a reliance on corporate coin than by his fears that organisations with "good intentions" will exert undue influence.

But he should show good intentions by exerting more serious and positive efforts to narrow the gap between all political parties and reach a consensus on the constitution.

Behaviours are performed in "social context" and intentions usually exert less strong influence when there is potential for social reaction [ 25].

Instead, executives, economists and fund managers have expressed concern about Ms. Ho's announced intention to exert a greater role in Temasek's companies.

Pope John XII, recognizing the emperor's intention of exerting imperial supremacy over the papacy, began to fear for his own future.

Kerkorian claims the offer is for investment purposes only and he has no intention to exert any influence over the embattled company.

Earlier this month, the EPA actually announced its intention to exert greater scrutiny over the WVDEP process of permit applications received for surface mining operations "with valley fills".

Despite its calls for freedom of navigation and restraint for peace, the US has pushed forward militarization of the South China Sea with an "intention to exert hegemony," Yang added.

In their two most recent publications [ 32, 44], Herraiz and colleagues expressed the future intention to exert better experimental control by requiring the control group to complete a passive listening task or an unrelated active listening task.

If this should prove the last general election in which our newspapers exerted any influence over voting intentions, at least the end came with a bang and not a whimper.