It is correct and usable in written English
You could use it to describe a situation in which someone's motivation or will is diminished or weakened. Example: The long hours that the employees had to work began to reduce the intention to stay with the company.
For example, Archie et al. [ 6] examined whether free access to a fitness center could increase exercise program adherence, finding that increasing motivation by providing free access to exercise facilities was not sufficient to reduce the intention-behavior gap in individuals with schizophrenia.
Moreover, the findings show that being a woman, or being moderately or highly educated in comparison with poorly educated, as well as being promoted in the current organization, also significantly reduces the intention to stay.
To evaluate and optimize the design of a removable and inexpensive internal stabilization device to reduce the effect of intention tremor during laryngeal microsurgery.
As Larry Page has been quoted as saying, "the amazing thing about them is that they reduce the time between intention and action".
In order to limit the risks identified and reduce misunderstandings the intention was to use the same interpreter in each family for all three sessions.
After their meetings, the French and German finance ministers issued a statement expressing support for the idea of introducing a tax that would differentiate between the risk levels of banks "with the intention to reduce the risk profile that some financial institutions exhibit".
The work of Birner (2013) has been incorporated into the Geothermal Information System (GeotIS, Schulz et al. 2009), a web-based platform integrating all available data about geological structure, lithology and temperature from outcrops, wells, and seismic data for areas of geothermal interest in Germany with the intention to reduce the exploration risk for geothermal drilling projects.
The paper presents some applications of the method of creativity treated in [4], having the intention to reduce the types of structures of mechanical tensegrities to a finite number of models; so that we can simplify the design, in the same time maintaining a great variety of functions.
There was little evidence of any rational decision making behind the intention to reduce the intake of alcohol, at least on the basis of the arguments examined here.
