good intention
Example Sentences
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The Gulf trio "led a long, frantic, diplomatic last-minute effort to convince President Trump to give Iran a chance to show good intention", the official said on condition of anonymity, adding that dialogue was continuing.
From Barron's • Jan. 15, 2026
“What you’re seeing is a growing gap between the reality of everyday people and those who, with good intention, want to work on their behalf,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2024
With good intention and often with some discomfort, they all ask me the same thing: How am I doing?
From Seattle Times • Jun. 30, 2023
The technology may have started out with good intention, but it evolved into something else.
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2022
These encouragements, though at bottom, perhaps, as I shall endeavour to show hereafter, altogether illusory, sufficiently demonstrate at least the good intention of the legislature to favour agriculture.
From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Garnier, Germain
