sole intention

collocation in English

meaningsofsoleandintention

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sole
adjective[before noun]
uk
/səʊl/us
/soʊl/
being one ...
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intention
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪnˈten.ʃən/us
/ɪnˈten.ʃən/
something that you want and plan ...
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(Definition ofsoleandintentionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsole intention

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Thesoleintentionof the new clause is to try to give more money to the poorest parents to help their children.
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That is thesoleintentionof the amendments.
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He seems to take the view that hissoleintentionis to organise the arrangements so that reliable and cheap electricity is provided.
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One of my opponents at the last general election stood with thesoleintentionof demonstrating the strength of feeling about capital punishment.
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Is not that thesoleintentionof the legislation?
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Is not that thesoleintentionof it—to be hostile—and nothing else?
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I am speaking with thesoleintentionof making this scheme not only popular but workable and successful.
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Mysoleintentionwas to take that quotation as indicating that a restoration of the allowances would increase the amount of purchasing power.
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It was not oursoleintentionto deliver a purely legal evaluation.
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They connived in breaking of the embargo, with thesoleintentionof discrediting the report and many distinguished members of the commission.
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We shall look into all those ideas with thesoleintentionof strengthening the war effort, which is the common purpose of us all.
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That was thesoleintentionof those who framed this scheme.
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I am sympathetic to the amendment if that is thesoleintentionbehind it.
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We have heard from housing trusts and associations that were set up with thesoleintentionof providing homes in areas of acute housing stress for the needy.
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If another ship went outside the three-mile limit with thesoleintentionof jamming these existing programmes, would it be acting more or less legally than the ships already there?
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I feel sure the country will not put up with this elaborate machinery of regulations and licences if thesoleintentionis to restrict the production and supply of commodities.
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That is thesoleintention.
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He felt it essential that a certain number of measures be enacted within the framework of common transport policy whosesoleintentionwould be to improve traffic conditions.
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Mysoleintentionis to ensure that the right machinery exists at local authority level to give a fresh impetus to road safety work throughout the country.
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Could it be made illegal, for example, to incite or support such a campaign of harassment, thesoleintention of which is to cause economic damage to a legitimate business?
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