intention
Example Sentences
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"The number of people choosing not to marry or not to have children is increasing, and fertility intentions among the younger generation are weak," He Yafu, an independent Chinese demographer, told AFP.
From Barron's
But good intentions can harden into dogma, and instead of helping people work through conflicted feelings, practitioners doubled down on the proposition that any desire for change was evidence of internalized harm.
"Our intentions have always been clear for years and that is to establish an independent state, we haven't tried to fool anyone," he said.
From BBC
It was proof, yet again, that elderly parents leave behind financial disharmony, despite their best intentions.
From MarketWatch
In “Intentional,” Mr. Bailey offers science-based strategies—gleaned, he says, from thousands of research studies—for turning intention into action.
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