"intent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Parliament bridled in sympathy with the public then, and the Government soon retreated from its intent.
- His expression made it obvious that he would not be swayed from his intent.
- We won't restructure a playwright's work by bending it from its original intent.
- However, in the course of the novel, the phrase comes to mean something quite different from its original intent.
- One interesting thing about such projects is how they evolve from their original intent.
- It startled him enough from his intent to give me the chance I needed.
- "None of the changes to which we have agreed detracts in any way from Congress's intent to strengthen the whistle-blower protections."
- Both changes make it simpler for thousands of refugees and immigrants to remain in the United States, a 180-degree turn from the original law's intent.
- That may distract them from our real intent.
- But it means different things in each state, and its effects so far have been quite different from its intent.
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