Sentences with phrase «apparent intention»

The phrase "apparent intention" refers to the visible or obvious purpose or aim that someone displays through their actions, words, or behavior. It is the understanding or perception of what someone seems to want or plan to do. Full definition
The rhetoric and apparent intentions of MBS have reinflated the risk premium in oil prices.
Rotten: Without focus, without apparent intention, the movie floats along, stringing various incidents together, and in the end seems much longer than it is.
And, given the brothers» apparent intention to drive to New York, it had possibly saved New York from a terrorist attack.
A muddy, mucky, slippery slope... The combination of this news and the apparent intention of the harper government to allow the hand over of private personal information without a court order (see upcoming crime omnibus bill), lead one to wonder if we are in for this...
If one is persuaded that Whitehead's account is indeed the most penetrating that now exists, that it does justice to the complexity of the phenomena of science and of history alike, then the fact that it too leads, almost in spite of the author's apparent intention, to a doctrine of God as the source and ground of order is an important further confirmation of the inescapability for speculative reason of some kind of belief in God.
The winger decided that a move away from the Emirates was the best decision and despite Arsene Wenger's apparent intention to keep the player, Gnabry was sold to Bundesliga side Werder Bremen.
Through signings of the likes of Nelson Semedo, Ousmane Dembele, Philippe Coutinho and Yerry Mina, there are a number of players being brought in at the Nou Camp with an apparent intention to form part of a long - term plan given their respective ages.
WADA's position appears to be that since there is an apparent intention of using this substance to improve performances and that there has been an abrupt increase in suspicious usage, they've decided to put it on the banned list proactively.
Earlier this week, DiNapoli criticized the Thruway Authority's apparent intention to raise truck tolls by 45 percent.
He found that — in contrast with the apparent intention of the restrictions — abortion rates were more than twice as high in countries heavily affected by the policy as they were in those that weren't.
As we go to press, George Bush's decision not to sign the Biodiversity Convention, and Britain's apparent intention to follow suit, are grievous blows both to the planet's remaining wild lands and to the hopes of success at the Earth Summit.
The better twist would have been following through on its apparent intention to cast android FBI special agent Illeana (Angelina Jolie) as the übermensch and milquetoast art dealer Costa (Ethan Hawke) as the wilting damsel in distress, but alas, the cross-gender drag is altogether too daring.
No film has ever won both the Best Film and Best British Film awards at BAFTA, largely because the latter is voted on by a special committee, often with the apparent intention of spotlighting lower - profile British filmmakers.
If there is no apparent intention by the driver to change lane, a light situated in the door mirror on the relevant side of the car is illuminated.
In my latest post about CreateSpace discontinuing its paid author services, I was writing about Amazon's apparent intention to eventually roll CreateSpace into the Amazon fold.
Rather, their apparent intention is to keep pushing the US and other developed countries into a fossil fuel-less society in which all energy used will come from wind and solar or a few other «renewables» but not including either hydro or nuclear.
This Jesuit educated and weekly Mass going Catholic regards the apparent intention of this Pope to make a religious matter of his false «science» to be the worst example of ignorant Vatican meddling since Galileo.
USEPA is currently reviewing a number of Obama - era regulations with the apparent intention of repealing or revising some of them.
The apparent intention of the legislature was to provide something within the VAT regime which was parallel to the income tax regime.
Exchanges themselves don't seem to be too moved by the minister's apparent intention.
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