Sentence examples for singular intention from inspiring English sources

When the police initiated their two-day siege on 6221 Osage Avenue in 1985, they began by declaring, "Attention MOVE, this is America," presuming the co-signature of an entire nation upon their singular intention to destroy the organization.

"Theme parks are the all-encompassing product of a singular intelligence and intention, and as such they also resemble utopias," says Will Wiles, an architecture journalist who took a crowbar to the cookie-cutter motel, motorway and conference-centre landscape found on the periphery of so many cities in his novel The Way Inn.

We can define hermeneutic fictionalism as the view that mathematicians (and perhaps ordinary folk) intend their mathematical talk to be taken as a form of fiction; more specifically, the view here is that, according to ordinary mathematical intentions, singular terms like '3' are not supposed to refer, and sentences like '3 is prime' are not supposed to be true.

"Birthday Suits" began as a singular self-portrait, with no intention of becoming a life-long series.

Unlike Wyclif, who applied predication by essence to second intentions only—since he admitted sentences like "(What is) universal is (what is) singular" (that is, universale est singulare) as well-formed and true Penbygull thinks that it holds also when applied to first intentions.

Even though Bratman has specified the dimensions of the interrelations between the attitudes of the individual agents involved (cf. Bratman 2006), some critics have taken issue with the claim that the attitudes constitutive of shared intentions have to stand in the singular, i.e., the 'I'-form (cf. Baier 1997; Stoutland 1997; Schmid 2009; Schweikard 2011).

In the second notandum, Wyclif contends that proper names, personal and demonstrative pronouns, and those terms of second intention by which we speak of the singular items considered as such (namely, expression like 'persona' and 'individuum') cannot supposit distributively, since they were devised in order to signify discrete vel singulariter only.

Singular "therapist," plural "their," singular "her".