As Gray suspected, intention mattered.
But again, the number is less important than the suspected intention.
On Wednesday, a spokesman for Beijing's foreign ministry suggested readers would suspect the intentions behind "unconvincing" reports on the offshore assets.
The spokesman added: "From the point of view of readers, the logic of some of the related articles is unconvincing, and it leads people to suspect the intentions behind it".
The law lords ruled that Roma should only have been subjected to more intrusive questioning if there had been specific reason to suspect their intentions from the answers given to standard questions put to everyone, and that UK immigration officers should have been given careful instructions in how to treat all passengers travelling from Prague in the same way.
But that's part of Newman's nonconformist charm, and (I suspect) his intention: awkwardness and pensiveness are more likely to bump us out of our complacency – to engage our brains, indeed – than conventional comic timing and delivery.
When he exhibited large-scale ink paintings marked with his fake characters in 1986, the show was closed by the police, who suspected subversive intentions.
It is an allegorical novel; in which, however, imagination and reality are to closely crossed that there is hardly a sentence one may not suspect of two intentions.
A cabdriver who was arrested on drug charges and who the authorities suspect had terrorist intentions was detained without bail yesterday in Federal District Court in Brooklyn.
Under these circumstances, the Iranian government — regardless of who wins the presidential elections on June 12 — will continue to suspect that American intentions toward the Islamic Republic remain, ultimately, hostile.
Western powers say they suspect Iran's intentions are to produce fuel for nuclear weapons, and domestic politics in both the United States and Iran all but excluded the chance that either side would accept big concessions.
