Sentence examples for measures of intent from inspiring English sources

By contrast, all but one of the public polls relied entirely on self-reported measures of intent to vote, past turnout and interest in the campaign to select "likely voters" and most relied on samples of randomly generated phone numbers (a process known as "random digit dial") rather than official voter lists.

As this is a measure of intent, it provides an earlier window into the decision making process than the path offset measure.

It is assumed that submovements are executed in a feed-forward manner (i.e., they are planned before execution), and so the submovement amplitudes are a measure of intent, as they indicate how far the subject was planning on moving at the time of submovement onset.

Care plans provide an important measure of intent and action but our research suggests that this may have limitations in recording the implementation of recovery-orientated practice.

In South Africa in 1995 there were 511 requests for verification of nursing credentials – a proxy measure of intent to leave the country.

The relevant quantity is some measure of intent to migrate such as the number or fraction of the health care professionals wishing to migrate (M).

These items have been validated relative to other well-established measures of suicidal intent and hopelessness.

In addition to the questionnaire, three validated measures of suicide intent, mental health and alcohol misuse will be applied: the Beck Suicidal Intent Scale (SIS), 30 the Clinical Interview Schedule Sinhalese version 31 (CIS-Sn), and the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test 32 (AUDIT).

Surely a better measure of attacking intent would be attempted shots, including on- and off-target?

The billions we Americans spend on just the right shoes for our particular sport is a measure of serious intent.

Andy Dawson as player-coach, Matt Sparrow and Marcus Williams returned to the club last year, along with Hayes, and the signing of Madden for a reported £225,000 and Gary McSheffrey – who went from Coventry to Birmingham for £4m in 2006 – from Chesterfield is a measure of their intent.