Sentence examples for reasonable intention from inspiring English sources

Yet the audience feels complicit, since every fresh act of violence seems a rational response to events, reaching back all the way to that first somewhat reasonable intention.

That is, we know that the legislature could not have had the intention that produces a drastic reading of its text; so we will supply the reasonable intention and give the text the meaning the legislature must have intended.

Sellars approaches the search for a categorically reasonable intention in several steps.

For a moral ought, we would seek a categorically reasonable intention, one that would be reasonable for anyone and everyone to have.

Reasonable intentions might go up in smoke.

The reasonable intentions of some index developers have been sullied by those condoning, rather than confronting, the indefensible interpretational slide from indices reporting "covariance fit" to reporting "the acceptability of the model".

"Even when decisions are made, good and reasonable in intention, things are done in such a way that one's hair stands on end.

Support for Breckinridge's candidacy was only reasonable if the intention were to elect Lincoln.

Leave may be granted to employees who have given reasonable notice of intention to be absent to observe, as a requirement of his or her religion, the Sabbath or any other Holy Day that falls on a workday.

The fact that the main part (19,000 of 31,000) of the confirmed term pairs contains one word in both Swedish and English is reasonable because the intention of the word alignment is to create a dictionary.

"The people at NASA and the people at the N.S.F. are reasonable people whose intentions are good," he said.