Synonym: aim, design, intent, purpose. Similar words: intervention, a bone of contention, attention, pay attention to, intent, constitutional convention, intermittent, mention. Meaning: [ɪn'tenʃn] 
n. 1. an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions 2. (usually plural) the goal with respect to a marriage proposal 3. an act of intending; a volition that you intend to carry out.
n. 1. an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions 2. (usually plural) the goal with respect to a marriage proposal 3. an act of intending; a volition that you intend to carry out. 
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121 I'm willing to concede that I have hurt her, but that's not my real intention.
122 What is your intention?
123 I'm sorry I offended you, but it wasn't my intention.
124 The article was written with the intention of opening up a public debate.
125 He had no intention of changing his mode of attire.
126 The party has no intention of relaxing its hold on the country.
127 The intention therefore was to have equal percapita distribution.
128 There is always a gap between intention and action. Paulo Coelho 
129 Einstein had no intention of abandoning the relativity principle.
130 The second distinguishes crudely between legal form and intention.
131 They also announced their intention of redeeming the mortgage.
132 There is no intention of communicating with others.
133 Clinton announced his intention to name Rep.
134 But that is definitely not our intention.
135 It speaks of intention permanently to deprive.
135 Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and build good sentences.
136 In claims that one tradition rather than another led to scientific innovation, one often detects an apologetic intention.
137 It is not our intention here to debate the merits of these models, or their relation to the General Theory.
138 As the name implies, the initial intention was more general than the agenda item and inorganic chemical nomenclature was included.
139 The Renault design team clearly succeeded in their intention to offer big car comfort in a competitively compact package.
140 Murder; and Theft: dishonestly appropriating property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the owner of it.
141 With this intention firmly planted in her mind, she headed for the back stairs leading down into the kitchens.
142 This would have conflicted with Haile Selassie's intention of curtailing the power of the feudal Rases and centralizing the administration.
143 In these circumstances, advertisements will be construed as a declaration of intention to hold an auction and not a contract.
144 Alternatively, an apparent readiness to change may conceal an intention to resist in concerted action with others.
145 Indifference rather than intention may be the cause of greater human suffering, particularly with regard to corporate crime.
146 No land will be sold before 1994 and there is every intention of having a serious study before then.
147 If something is not property, the accused can not have an intention permanently to deprive the owner of that property.
148 These visitors had every intention of spending the rest of the weekend on Miyako before going back home.
149 I urge, therefore, a cautious approach to the ascertainment of the intention of the legislature.
150 Stalin had no intention of honouring previously signed mutual assistance treaties.
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