Sentence examples for the very intention from inspiring English sources

This is complicated by the fact that these countries, unlike the United States or the Soviet Union, have no experience of the horrors of modern total war, waged against whole cities with the very intention of leveling them.

Political parties at UK level are used to untrammelled power – indeed, that outcome is the very intention of the first-past-the-post electoral system – and it is a great irony of the current situation that the much vaunted "winner takes all" voting method delivered a PR sort of result.

Labor Day was birthed in the 1880s out of a march/celebration organized by the Central Labor Union (though it did not become a federal holiday until 1894) with the very intention of giving laborers a well-deserved break.

But while it is possible to obtain informed consent to have one's blood, cells or tissue sample taken by the researchers for a specific research project, the very intention of setting up such large data banks precludes giving informed consent for all the possible ways in which the information derived from that sample can be used for future research [ 6].

It was recently mentioned that, "while it is possible to obtain informed consent to have one's blood, cells or tissue samples taken by researchers for a specific research project, the very intention of setting up such large data banks precludes giving informed consent for all the possible ways in which the information derived from that sample can be used for future research" [ 3].

Speaker's meaning in the Gricean tradition is identified with the effect that, in performing a given utterance, the speaker intends, by means of the audience's recognition of this very intention, to produce in that audience (see Grice, Paul).

Because you recognized that we uttered the sentence intending, by means of recognition of that very intention, to produce that belief.

This suggests another criterion: Performing an action with the, or an, intention of influencing someone's beliefs, while intending that this very intention be recognized.

Maybe the defendant's lawyers coached him to change his haircut and posture, with that very intention in mind.

Offer and acceptance each specifically require an intention to establish an obligation through this very intention.

The intention to produce a belief or other attitude by means (at least in part) of recognition of this very intention, has come to be called a reflexive communicative intention.