Sentence examples for sort of intention from inspiring English sources

That sort of intention and drive is what I want people to see in all of my roles ahead.

Tony Howlett, service manager for people with learning disabilities at Leicestershire County Council, said it was seen as "more of a general expression of her anxieties at the bullying and harassment and not any sort of intention to commit suicide".

It's funny with stories (or, at least, with mine) — they are, of course, going to be "about" something and appear to present certain views re those things, but if I start out with that sort of intention the story never proves interesting enough to finish.

But though it is an attitude or state of an individual, it is a fundamentally different kind of intention, and not the sort of intention that figures in individual action.

Such an intention, even supplemented with the sort of beliefs that Tuomela and Miller require, intuitively doesn't count as the sort of intention one has when acting with others, and it is implausible to think that these graduates go on to act collectively.

In the classical law and later, it denoted the contrectatio ("handling") of most types of property with a particular sort of intention – fraud and in the later law, a view to gain.

And actually their intentions aren't our sort of intentions, and they may not be bluffing – they may be out to do something catastrophically dangerous".

Earlier this week on this site, Andrew Frost seemed to suggest that arts funding should be given only to people who apply for it in good faith, with the right sort of intentions.

The "metropolitan elite" add to the woe by reaching Edinburgh once a year typically at festival time, falling off the shuttle from London City, bemoaning the lack of 3G coverage, having all sorts of intentions to see more of Scotland and then never setting foot again until next year.

The basic idea is that the relevant sorts of intentions for fixing the reference of impure indexicals are, properly speaking, intentions aimed at getting the listener to identify a particular object (x) as the referent.

He argues that the sense in which friends share activity is not the sort of shared intention and plural subjecthood discussed in literature on shared intention within social philosophy (on which, see Tuomela 1995, 2007; Gilbert 1996, 2000, 2006; Searle 1990; and Bratman 1999), for such sharing of intentions does not involve the requisite intimacy of friendship.