Sentence examples for practical intention from inspiring English sources

That last one, the cynical use of an issue that a candidate has no practical intention of fulfilling, is not all that surprising.

In his own memoir, Colin L. Powell, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote that "our practical intention was to leave Baghdad enough power to survive as a threat to an Iran that remained bitterly hostile toward the United States".

Throughout, Kushner's gifts as a poet war with the more practical intentions of the novelist – like perfectly rendered pearls in a life-size portrait, her specificity draws the eye too close and muddles the focus on the whole.

Although it is not always easy to know the immediate practical intentions of a philosopher, it must be remembered that in al-Fārābī's lifetime the fate of the Islamic world was in the balance.

In doing so, the book endeavours to combine theoretical preoccupations and practical intentions.

Basic modes are the modes of conative or practical intentional attitudes (such as intentions or desires), cognitive or theoretical intentional attitudes (such as beliefs or perceptions), and affective or emotional attitudes (such as hopes and fears).

What is it about the role of intention in intentional action, or in practical reasoning, that requires it to take an evaluative shape?

The Belief-Desire-Intention model of agents (BDI) is concerned with the formal representation of practical reasoning involving action, intention, belief, will, deliberation, goal-driven modeling, etc.

There is often a gap, however, between pious intention and practical outcome.

The paradigm of collective intentionality in the recent debate is joint intention (collective practical intentionality).

And... it will only happen through our collective awareness, intention, and practical focus.