Sentence examples for its intention was from inspiring English sources

It said its intention was to stop Cuadrilla drilling during the event, between 16 and 21 August.

It now says its intention was merely to offer help to those four million borrowers, not to make sure they actually got it.

Al-Qaeda's offshoot in Yemen was suspected of being behind the plot, though it remained unclear whether its intention was to bring the aircraft down.

Asked how much damage the leaks had caused, Blair told Today: "I think it's hard to tell right now, but its intention was to be extremely damaging".

If its intention was only to silence Hamas's rockets by re-establishing deterrence, it has surely done so.

When the PRSRA was introduced, the government claimed its intention was not to ban protest in Parliament Square.

The EPA says its intention is to regulate ion-generating devices rather than nanotechnology itself.

The government says its intention is to help Muslims determine which charities are behaving responsibly.

Iran has insisted that its intention is to make fuel for a civilian nuclear power program.

But, of course, its intention is to encourage us to think for ourselves.

But others suspect that its intention is to artificially boost the apparent number of users of its Google+ social network.