Collocations withintention
These are words often used in combination withintention.
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aggressive intention
It would surely be wise to assume that some aggressive intention might be involved in this strange development.
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apparent intention
However, we must not confuse apparent intention with capability.
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artistic intention
The design and incorporation of the technology already displays an artistic intention regarding gender and other supposedly binary categories.
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authorial intention
This essay aims to address these issues of audience reception and some questions of authorial intention that they raise.
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best intention
It is true that the letters which have been sent were written with the best intention and were intended to be explanatory.
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conscious intention
You can't see your conscious intention causing an action, but can only infer this from the regular relation between intention and action.
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declared intention
What we have is a declared intention that they will not proceed.
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deliberate intention
Indeed, one can see e-government managers allowing user appropriation of new systems with the deliberate intention that appropriation will change the deployment context.
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evil intention
Those around suspect evil intention or a punishment, for why else should the person have died?
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explicit intention
Throughout he kept a detailed private journal, with the explicit intention of producing a popular travelogue alongside his formal reports.
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expressed intention
This sits a little oddly with her expressed intention to ' view the establishment of hospital care of the mentally ill as a great ' ' humanist project ' ' ' (p. 2).
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firm intention
Our firm intention to respect customs does not establish an obligation to restrain progress, nor the regularization and amelioration of custom.
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good intention
But the good intention was there.
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implementation intention
It is also assumed that an implementation intention, once set, will continue operating non-consciously.
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initial intention
Or rather, must it in contrast apply a strategy aimed at unveiling the initial intention through the gesture?
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noble intention
Despite this noble intention, the attempt at rural modernization failed miserably in many respects.
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notice of intention
Those are precise events—paragraph 7 talks about formal notice of intention to decommission and the appointment of a contact person.
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original intention
Despite the original intention, however, ' reference rents ' often do not reflect true market rents.
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sole intention
The sole intention of the new clause is to try to give more money to the poorest parents to help their children.
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stated intention
A stated intention is to improve the teaching of ' global human geography ' (emphasis mine).
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true intention
The children failed to make the necessary inferences in order to identify the true intention of the picture.
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