"violent intent" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a purpose or plan to harm someone or cause destruction using extreme physical force. Example: The defendant's history of violent behavior and his admission of having a violent intent towards the victim were used as evidence against him in the trial.
Phrases like "violent intent" appeared in large type.
These were primitive attacks carrying a degree of malevolence and violent intent that chilled you.
Meanwhile, Collins turns the dancing from peacock displays of sexuality to signs of violent intent.
He may be commenting on her taste in football team, rather than any violent intent.
He said he and other members had seen no indication that Mr. Tarrant had violent intent.
The new law imposes tougher penalties on those trespassing on school premises with violent intent, and on football hooligans.
It was an unjustifiable and illegal means of punishing wholly non-violent and rather docile protesters – chants included "This is not a riot" and "We are peaceful, what are you?"; protesters put their hands up in unison to signal non-violent intent – in pretty much the coldest, most uncomfortable place possible.
Instead, they would show a deliberate, vehement intent to kill by a young man who had embraced violent religious extremism.
He was a renegade, prosecutors say, part of a violent faction intent on ousting the bosses of the powerful Patriarca crime family in Boston in the early 1990s.
Protesters say they are angry about a lack of jobs, but officials say the rioting is the work of a minority of violent extremists intent on damaging Tunisia.
Some diplomats think the government's offer of seemingly impossible negotiations with a loose coalition of violent Islamists intent on toppling the state was a strategy designed to demonstrate the futility of talks and build public support for a military crackdown on terrorist sanctuaries.
