Sentence examples for the first intention from inspiring English sources

This is understandable; it won't bear comparison with its magnetic neighbours, and moreover, it lies awkwardly abaft the channel, as if the first intention was to be a stopper of it.

Eventually, it came to be regarded, although such was almost certainly not the first intention, as a manifesto for an end to the corruption of an effete aristocracy and for a return to the stern, patriotic morals attributed to republican Rome.

The R506Q Factor V-Leiden mutation is now usually characterized using molecular biology, and this technique tends to become the first intention assay for characterization of patients.

The first intention with 10-year old Axismed, Telefonica says, will be to expand the monitoring service across all of Brazil, and then move it into other markets.

The first intention of Marra et al. [52] lies in the cost-effectiveness of infliximab in combination with methotrexate compared to methotrexate monotherapy.

In answering the question concerning the first intention of a thing, Francis distinguishes between a material and formal priority of concepts.

While God is not the first but the last concept in the order of rational knowledge, after the knowledge of creatures, He is the first object of natural knowledge, which is had in the first intentions and in which our intellect always proceeds from what is most indeterminate.

Strawson's own solution was to add a fourth clause about the speaker's intention that the hearer recognize the third intention.

The second intention was to preliminarily test the hypothesis of sexual dimorphism in the lateral crura size and of right to left asymmetry of the lateral crura in the same individual.

The third intention had only been added three days before completion, but it, too, was beginning to see the glimmer of manifestation.

The second intention was to link this with inhibition of CD70-mediated protumoral activities.