Sentence examples for 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.

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

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.

What is more, this last example is a case of performing an action with an intention of influencing someone's beliefs, even while intending that this very intention be recognized; yet it is not a case of telling.

As sum scores may range between 2 (very low intention) and 10 (very high intention), this indicates a relatively disapproving intention to teach both evolutionary theory and unscientific alternatives.

The Left Book Club came at the end of it, and had a very specific intention.

"Some people have called it a gimmick, but there is a very serious intention here.

I think it is a house that has been done with very strong intention in respecting the scales and proportions around it.

"There was a very specific intention on the part of Gropius to use Emerson as a kind of touchstone in creating a new architecture that had no reference to the past," Mr. Gorlin said.