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.
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151 The intention is that over extended periods of time equivalent machines receive an equivalent amount of resource.
152 By kicking deep, and applying follow-up pressure, the intention was to force the opposition to concede the throw-in.
153 On May 8 Martin Shikuku, interim secretary-general of the party, declared his intention to stand for the presidency.
154 That, said the ejidatarios' elected leader, Rafael Garcia Espinoza, was never the peasants' intention.
155 Assertions that intention is the sole criterion of validity are few, suspect, and found only in post-classical texts.
156 He had every intention of getting the hell out of Paris just as soon as he had collected all the money owed to him.
157 The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. Oscar Wilde
158 Also, that should he survive this, he had every intention of consuming a great deal more.
159 I made my way back to Chelsea only too aware that I had no intention of buying a shop in the terrace.
160 The offeror must then publicise this intention in a mass circulation newspaper or by some other means approved by the supervisory authority.
161 You have the intention permanently to deprive me of the petrol.
162 Clinton will accept the Democratic nomination for a second-term without ever having publicly declared his intention to seek re-election.
163 I know their intention is not to hurt the Coliseum, but something like this is disruptive and hurtful to that end.
164 Two problematical areas in modern-day criminal law are dishonesty and intention.
165 The inaccessible lesions were included in the final analysis as the aim was to evaluate this procedure according to the intention to treat.
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166 It should always be used with definite intention - never mechanically added to the ensemble without consciously imagining its effect.
167 If this was the intention it came to nothing, for the title was abolished in 1554.
168 The intention was to produce a coherent policy on the development of civil and military technology.
169 Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless. Adolf Hitler
170 What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing. Pablo Picasso
171 Attaining this state of mutual knowledge of a communicative intention is to have successfully communicated.
172 Without conscious intention, I took her in my arms and kissed her.
173 is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators. Ansel Adams
174 It is not a fixed asset as there is no intention to use it in the business.
175 In the second place, it involves some intention to maintain that control on the part of the possessor.
176 I have also disclosed my intention for the effect that the book will have.
177 The Allies, however(sentencedict.com), had no intention of letting the armistice arrangements slide by default into a full-blown peace.
178 She may be surprised, disconcerted; she may even have had no conscious intention of getting involved with this particular man.
179 How then is the full communicative intention to be recognized?
180 His expression was bland, and he obviously had no intention of filling the damning silence.
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