The avowed intent of the United Irishmen was to "break the connection with England"; the organisation spread throughout Ireland and had at least 200,000 members by 1797.

And it mocked her avowed intent to end unjust persecution of the Witted.

All of this is with the avowed intent of improving his company's products.

It is her avowed intent that these sculptures will help call attention to the mistreatment and extinction of animals.

Heinzer, the Mister Nice of the Swiss Team, exploiting an avowed intent to turn Mister Ugly -'I want to go for the big wins'- won the first race.

For Villas-Boas, this was a chastening afternoon but he must not be diverted from his avowed intent to make Chelsea more entertaining, and introducing new players.

Beyond her resolutely modern pictorial expression, Katrin Fridriks is continuing her research into matter and colour with the avowed intent to place technique at the service of artistic expression.

What sets his enterprise apart from the generic studio portraiture it resembles is the artist's avowed intent to empower his subjects by giving them self-images of larger-than-life dignity.

Each morning of our stay unfurls with the same avowed intent: we're dying to see if you really do ride the rumoured donkey or camel to access the best powdery slopes.

Kolker points out that much of the criticism has come from modern ideas of finding a personal voice through poetry while Sigourney's avowed intent was to benefit others (66).