Sentences with phrase «noble intentions when»

I didn't have very noble intentions when I started lifting weights.

He contended further that, President Mahama had purely noble intentions when he accepted the gift as «he had in mind clearly what he was going to use the gift for and that the gift was meant to be used by the state.»

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Jimmy Carter's experience illustrates what happens when the idea of the grandeur of politics is forsaken, even in the name of noble intentions.

He is fierce and noble when declaring his intention to protect his girls, but shockingly brittle when that determination is put to the test — and it's all the more admirable that he stands up given the doubt he must overcome.

When Hercules begins to doubt the King's noble intentions, he is faced with an impossible choice between his life and his honour.

A noirish, deeply felt novel of intrigue and identity written in O'Nan's trademark lucent style, City of Secrets asks how both despair and faith can lead us astray, and what happens when, with the noblest intentions, we join movements beyond our control.