intentional act

collocation in English

meaningsofintentionalandact

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intentional
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈten.ʃən.əl/us
/ɪnˈten.ʃən.əl/
planned ...
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act
noun
uk
/ækt/us
/ækt/
something that ...
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(Definition ofintentionalandactfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofintentional act

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We began to suspect that initiating this chain of events was anintentionalactof communication on his part.
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And even the filibuster itself is an unintended consequence of what she sees as more or less an historical accident in 1806, not a strategically motivatedintentionalact.
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It has been done as anintentionalactin a regulated tenancy.
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I understand that an "intentionalactof fare evasion" includes behaviour which may be considered fraudulent.
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On the verdict of the jury, it is plain that the applicant's act was a deliberate, conscious andintentionalact.
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That is anintentionalact.
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That was theintentionalact.
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That would have been anintentionalact.
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All three require that the act be a direct andintentionalact, with indirect or unintentional acts falling under the tort of negligence.
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First, the doctrine labels certain unintended effects as discriminatory, although discrimination is anintentionalact.
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This was anintentionalactdesigned to destroy all links with the areas these people had been living in.
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Hence, in their hands pushing upwards, they are opening the window; opening a window being a description of theintentionalact.
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At one year of age, joint attention is displayed through a child's understanding of pointing as anintentionalact.
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Anintentionalactwould have required considerable confidential intelligence and luck that seems very unlikely.
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Body language is typically subconscious behaviour, and is therefore considered distinct from sign language, which is a fully conscious andintentionalactof communication.
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Whether this was anintentionalactor an accident is not known, as a large a gunpowder magazine had been stored in its basement.
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In intentional acts a final cause need not come into concrete existence for its effect to come into concrete existence.
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The intentional acts of these beings would be free in the sense of not being constrained or determined.
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