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In short, there do not appear to be any compelling examples of "noninstrumental" self-killings in which "the overriding intention is simply to end one's life and there is no further independent objective involved in the action" (O'Keefee 1981, 357).

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".

However, if the overriding intention is to obtain the desirable effect (namely, to keep the patient symptom free), then it is considered acceptable to provide such a treatment, even though a predictable harmful and inevitable adverse effect might occur (hastening death); this reasoning is usually referred to as the 'principle of double effect' [ 15].

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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".

Despite this week's smiles for the cameras, the northern Mr Kim's intentions are still unknown.He talks the language of reunification, but his overriding aim is to keep himself and his cronies in power.

But its overriding purpose is consonance.

His overriding aim is to save the Islamic system.

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.

(His intentions are philanthropic).

His intentions are good.

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