The phrase "manifest intent" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a clear and obvious determination or purpose that someone has expressed or shown. Example: The defendant's actions showed a manifest intent to deceive the jury, leading to his conviction for perjury.
"But by the same token, it doesn't manifest an intent to steal their bus, and that's the point".
Although people do not always manifest their intent to participate in future policy discussions, they might maintain sufficient interest in biomedical issues and have a latent wish to get involved in the policy process.
Mr. Opinion said Mr. de Guzman's stealing passwords "manifested his intent to gain".
She asserts that "courts should rely on presidential speech only where the president has publicly manifested an intent to enter the legal arena.
Suppose, for example, that someone uttered "France is hexagonal" out of the blue, without making manifest any intents and purposes.
Something that manifests an intent.
In the hospitals, patients were approached by a research assistant who explained the purpose of the research and after they manifested their intent to participate, they were given out the survey accompanied by an explanatory letter.
And if ever there were a manifest statement of intent, it was in the very opening of this performance of Mahler's Second Symphony: Otaka's baton might have been the sword of an avenging angel, such was the force invested in this gesture.
Once Mr. Triana's political intent becomes manifest, much of the responsibility for maintaining the delicate chemistry that sustains the family narrative that masks fierce politics falls to the cast of three, which plays all the roles.
It's almost like, as a narcotics officer looks through his driver's side window for a petty dealer to arrest, through his passenger window he fails to see a mentally ill person headed with violent intent toward manifesting a real threat to public safety.
