Sentences with phrase «bad intentions as»

While this session is a shorter fiscal session, it seems to be following suit with a handful of bills with bad intentions as it relates to charter schools, including forcing schools into the state's retirement system and placing a moratorium on charter authorizing statewide.

Whether the consequences were the result of an accident as in the manslaughter situation, or bad intentions as in the attempted murder, mattered little.

Not exact matches

For a province that relies on free, unfettered trade of resources, measures such as this set a precedent as bad or worse as those set by BC Premier John Horgan's intention to regulate bitumen shipments in BC.

These are very tho - rny issues we're talking about — a tangled mess of bad intentions, good intentions, misapplied intentions, and the whole range of psychological variations of mental illness, cognitive dissonance, and a bunch of other things not really complimentary to religions in general and to specific religions as well.

Is it your intention to convince people that Christians are so deeply to blame, and so hypocritical, so false, so two - faced, so cheating, so lying, in short, such a bad reflection of the true Jesus, that Christianity should be discredited as a faith system?

Like Peter Singer and Jeff McMahan, I have sympathy for Anna Stubblefield, the Rutgers professor who was convicted in 2015 of raping a severely disabled man known as «D.J.» Her crime, horrid as it was, arose not from bad intentions or from failed duty, but from the consistent application of ideas we are all asked to applaud.

If enough money flows to Christian providers, it is possible that the quality of secular or non-Christian alternatives will gradually decline, not as the result of central planning or bad intentions, but as the unintended consequence of thousands of individual decisions to choose Christian alternatives.

No doubt to many of them he is, as Denis De Rougemont puts it in The Devil's Share, «a leering and horned demon skulking in the dark, animated by the worst intentions.»

Max is 68 now, and suffering from glaucoma, bad knees and a herniated disk in his back, but he's strong as a horse and has every intention of taking his act into the»90s, which would be its sixth decade.

Personally, I welcome — this being a debate site - real people with real fan opinions and have no intention of saying less than I mean, since to me that is hypocritical at worst or sitting on the fence at best, in true Alan Smith style (as opposed to fine proper and honest, as they see it, pundits like NEVILLE, CARRAGHER AND SOUNESS, who are above all honest and earn their corn - unlike Walcott - by doing the job they are paid to do.)

Chamberlain did lose the ball in a bad area at the worst time possible which ended hopes of a comeback in the game and arguably the tie altogether, but the player can take great pride, he went from hero to zero within minutes but as his intentions were in the right place and I would start him against Everton on Sunday.

NEMANJA MATIC has no intention of having bad hair days like Paul Pogba as he grooms Manchester United for another trophy.

Or worse, you have great intentions to figure out how to make it and buy all the supplies and try so hard to figure it out and fix all the kinks along the way and wind up buying more supplies and spending more time and money... and your end result isn't even nearly as good as the original one you saw?

So despite the fact that it isn't necessarily a «bad» word, populism is seen as a bad thing because it's a stance usually adopted by politicians whose intentions are not aligned with the best interests of the populace.

The poll's figures for general election voting intentions are not as bad but still not good: although the headline figures are Con 31 %, Lab 36 %, LD 9 %, UKIP 15 %, of those who voted Labour in 2010, 9 % are said to be intending to vote UKIP.

«Although well intentioned, the last Government received very little for their money in terms of social mobility and a reduction in the gap between the rich and the poor, and they have further fuelled a culture of benefit dependency in which children grow up seeing parents and grandparents who have never worked as their role models, in which people are better off living apart than living together, and in which there is no incentive to work because of the fear of becoming worse off.

ICM also asked a voting intention question asking how people would vote assuming that Gordon Brown was Labour leader — like YouGov's poll earlier this week this showed Labour doing worse under Brown than under Blair; with Brown as leader voting intention would be CON 40 %, LAB 37 %, LD 18 %.

Of course a shadow Chancellor can not, more than 3 years from the next election, make any detailed spending commitments — nor would he be expected to — but, if pressed, he could certainly make clear his intention to redress the worst of the cuts as soon as the economic situation allowed.

They probably don't translate into a better voting intention figure because the public also have a positive recollection of Ken Livingstone's period in office - 56 % think Livingstone did well as mayor, compared to 36 % who think he did badly.

Since Cameron became leader, every time a hypothetical poll about voting intention with Gordon Brown as leader has been asked, it has shown either the parties neck and neck or a Tory lead, and the majority have shown Brown doing worse than Blair.

Techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which highlights metabolically active areas of the brain, now allow neuroscientists to probe the biology behind bad intentions.

Experience the freedom that awareness and intention provides as you alchemize your being, and affirm your sacred bad assery.

Unlike most Marvel villains, who have little nuance as far as their evil intentions, Killmonger has a rationale for his malevolent acts, and a certain sympathy beyond this, that makes the film more a struggle for political ideas than it is just a black - and - white fight between good guys and bad guys.

It's almost as if Sunday can't escape this inverse Frankenstein monster he's created, so much decency and courage emerging out of so much bad behavior and intention on Sunday's part.

Well, it's official: the Road to Hell is pretty much paved over... the Strause Brothers... expressed their [good] intention to return to the dark, scary tone of 1979's Alien, yet Requiem is just about as bad as its 2004 predecessor.

However, the festival's two worst films surfaced quite loud and proud as if it was their intention all along.

Urban terrorism is the obvious villain, personified in the terrifying ragman Joker (Heath Ledger), but the focus of The Dark Knight is on the fallout from fear (grieving opportunities and allies lost to good intentions), its thesis that as bad as things are, they can get a lot worse.

Both as actors and as characters, Ethan Hawke's well - intentioned rookie and Denzel Washington's absurdly charismatic, 100 percent corrupt, utterly ruthless super-cop are badly mismatched.

Jacobs is an absolute standout as the guarded and self - loathing former bad girl, while Rust more than holds his own as the well - intentioned, but naïve nice guy.

Holes is far from a bad film, but despite (or perhaps, because of) its lofty intentions, the film disappoints by coming across as merely odd and cloying.

Joe Adler's performance as an airhead who claims to have a girlfriend named Athena is effortlessly, amusingly weird, and there are likable digs at student driving, the desperate date quest and Ethan Frome: not bad for a well - intentioned flick about well - intentioned kids who worry too much about disco balls.

With a plot as hyperactive and directionless as a new puppy, the frenetic action bounces between scenes of silly antics and crude pet behavior (such as sniffing / licking private body parts and urinating / defecating), to dangerous situations and terrifying bad guys (some with intentions to kill or eat others).

At this stage, your body language can be your best friend or your worst enemy as it gives away your intentions, experience, and fears.

I think these donors are well intentioned, but sometimes the growth of the charter school sector, which they have funded, has led to traditional neighborhood schools actually becoming worse as students with more engaged parents flee them.

Several of the stories have ties to his novels, but all stand on their own as they explore love and ambition and good intentions gone bad.

You're also asking Amazon to distinguish between intention, as in «good authors» and «bad authors.»

Filled with Amy Tan's signature «idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful mystery» (Los Angeles Times), Saving Fish from Drowning seduces the reader with a façade of Buddhist illusions, magician's tricks, and light comedy, even as the absurd and picaresque spiral into a gripping morality tale about the consequences of intentions - both good and bad - and about the shared responsibility that individuals must accept for the actions of others.

His brother, Dennis, has not been as fortunate; home from the service with a disability pension and zero prospects, he is man with good intentions but bad habits.

Because PETA believes that there is a chance that someone with bad intentions might adopt a pit from a shelter and use him / her for fighting or tie him / her out in the yard to serve as a macho guard dog.

As trainers, we're reminded of the depth and breadth of this misinformation when we get inquiries from confused and frustrated dog owners who have followed well - intentioned advice with very few or bad results.

They are very good with strangers, children, animals, and other dogs so long as there are no bad intentions.

Whichman gave some more insight on the intention of permadeath by giving examples of what is commonly known as save scumming; «If I can save the game and then drink the potion and — oh, it's bad — then I restore the game and I don't drink the potion.»

As much as I love zombie games — and am still searching for the perfect one that gets surviving a world filled with the undead just right — I walked away from my brief experience with Undead Labs» first effort thinking it was a rough, undercooked, glitchy mess of good intentions and bad executionAs much as I love zombie games — and am still searching for the perfect one that gets surviving a world filled with the undead just right — I walked away from my brief experience with Undead Labs» first effort thinking it was a rough, undercooked, glitchy mess of good intentions and bad executionas I love zombie games — and am still searching for the perfect one that gets surviving a world filled with the undead just right — I walked away from my brief experience with Undead Labs» first effort thinking it was a rough, undercooked, glitchy mess of good intentions and bad executions.

I think the worst put - downs are always disguised as «well - intentioned» comments.

As we do our work, it is easy to assume the worst: People are lazy, their intentions aren't good, they lie.

It is not my intention to label these galleries as the «bad guys.»

As song writer, Scott Miller wrote, «Good intentions with a bad plan is evil in disguise».

She and scores of other people can advise us to «follow the money» until doomsday comes, it is a fruitless exercise if no evidence is found to prove evil intentions on the part of skeptics, made worse if whatever amount of money donated to skeptics can't be disproved as being given solely because the donors simply agreed with what was being said.

Also, I apologise if the «bad neighborhood» passage was interpreted as dismissing the risks of AGW — that was not the intention.

It doesn't really matter what their original intention is or was, if the direct result is genocide, as is already happening, and will now only get a whole lot worse, then they must and will be held to account.