The worthy but narrow intentions of the European Union's policy makers have been inadequate for a sound European economy and have produced instead a world of misery, chaos and confusion.
Affect augmentation along with the incorporation of other self-regulatory behavioural self-management techniques (i.e. goal-setting, self-monitoring) [50] may have narrowed the intention-motivation-behavioural gap associated with exercise through improved automaticity and organization [51].
However, I believe we can narrow down the intentions even further.
In addressing the United Nations last month, Mr. Obama reinforced his intention to narrow his regional diplomatic focus to the Iranian nuclear deal and an Israeli-Palestinian peace.
The company, however, says it has no intention of narrowing its scope.
Malaysians talk of "Ali-Baba" firms, where Ali (an ethnic Malay) lends his name, for a fee, to Baba (a Chinese businessman) to win a government contract.Although these policies tend to start with the intention of favouring narrow groups, they spread as others clamour to be included.
To repeat: in the preceding sentence "intended" is used in the broad sense; Aquinas sometimes employs it this way (e.g. ST II-II q. 64 a. 7), though in his official synthesis the word is used in the narrower sense to signify the (further) intention with which the act's object was chosen – object being the most proximate of one's (broad sense) intentions.
Also, it has been proposed that the conceptualisation of the construct "norms" might be too narrow to exhibit significant influence on intention-building as substantial aspects of norms might not have been captured [ 36, 37].
The intention was to have a narrow gauge railway running along the tunnel, back up the hillside on a rope-hauled inclined plane, returning to the pithead.
Governance issues include the lack to follow up initial policy intentions and a focus on narrow, short-term approaches.
