Through it all the audience didn't seem to mind and was intent on sucking up to an anointed star, as did the judges.
It should be possible to create a law, as exists in Belgium or Switzerland, which demanded a cooling-off period; or create a tribunal, as Pratchett suggests, in which experts assessed that an applicant was in sound mind and of firm intent.
It is focused, concentrated, intentional, and intent.
Alternatively, it could be argued that although there was a genuine conceptual link between appropriate Rs and mind, design, intent etc., that typically our recognition of that link is triggered by specific experiences with artifacts, or that our seeing the connections in depth is best elicited by considerations involving artifacts.
In February, Cyrus Kouandjio, a 6-foot-7, 305-pound offensive lineman from Maryland, announced his intention to play for Auburn on ESPN, then changed his mind and signed a letter of intent to play for its archrival, Alabama.
There is an easy tendency to say "politics is politics" and that criminal activity requires a certain state of mind or intent to commit a crime.
Convictions may be had for the sales of adulterated or impure food,... infractions of anti-narcotic acts, and many other offenses based upon conduct alone without regard to the mind or intent of the actor".
Was I a robot mind myself, intent on hoovering up barnacled passwords?
"Anorectics perennially sabotage therapy," Appignanesi writes, because it isn't only food they refuse but "any form of intrusion," even — perhaps especially — that of a mind doctor intent on curing them.
