Sentence examples for overriding intention from inspiring English sources

The WRU recognises that Warren's overriding intention was to protect Samson by playing down the incident and that his comments were made following a thorough consultation with Samson and with his support".

My overriding intention for 2015 is..

Simply asserting that one had a legitimate overriding intention (killing an "enemy combatant"), and that this renders moot the predictable if not inevitable consequences (the deaths of non-combatants), is repugnant to reason and universal human values.

Book critic Jonathan Yardley wrote in the Washington Post in 1982, "Nowhere is there a more devastating debunking of the myth of Ol' Dixie as peaceable kingdom than the one presented here by Wyatt-Brown, and it is all the more devastating because his overriding intention is to be fair".

If your impulses tend to override your intentions in cherished areas of life, is it possible to make the converse the norm?

Habitual tendencies are therefore thought to override competing intentions in determining behaviour in associated settings (Gardner, de Bruijn, & Lally, 2011; Triandis, 1977).

And Governor Pataki vetoed parts of the $101.3 billion budget that they finally passed a third of the way into the year, but the Senate has said it has no intention of overriding any vetoes before the Republican National Convention is held at the end of the month in New York City.

Pompeo introduced the "Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act" in April of that year with the intention of overriding bills in roughly two dozen states.

And those "wants" are going to override the good intentions of your resolutions.

Theory predicts that, in associated contexts, habit will consistently elicit behaviour and override counter-habitual intentions (Hall & Fong, 2007; Triandis, 1977).

We focused on the juncture between finishing one drink and starting another because pilot work suggested that cued habit tendencies (to continue drinking) can feasibly override a priori intentions (to leave after one drink) at this point.