Sentence examples for least intention from inspiring English sources

Eager to assure Americans that he had not the least intention of founding a dynasty, he reminded Congress that he couldn't: "the Divine providence hath not seen fit that my blood should be transmitted or my name perpetuated by the endearing though sometimes seducing, channel of personal offspring".

I promise to meet you for lunch tomorrow, but haven't the least intention of making good.

But even as his government sought to suggest at least the intention of reform, violence erupted again as security forces fired on counterprotests, killing nine people, activists said.

At least the intention to engage with the independent sector is there - at the BBC it's a different, and more depressing story.

But there was, it seemed then, an underlying assumption that, even if this were not all soluble, it was at least the intention of every reasonable person to work together and try to solve it.

Mr. Frayn, who said he was inspired to write his play after reading Mr. Powers's book, said in an interview that he believed that Heisenberg did have at least some intention to alert Bohr that Germany had little chance of building a bomb then.

Moreover Kant holds that all the basic statements of traditional metaphysics are, at least in intention, synthetic a priori judgments (B18).

Also, as our reading suggests, it is not clear that d does not, at least by intention, express a complex quantificational notion involving the very concept of obligation (demand) as a proper part, namely that all obligations have been fulfilled, so that the "reduction", presented as an analysis, would appear to be circular.