Sentences with 'intent'

Example sentences and phrases with the word intent and other words derived from it.


« Democratic-Republicans argued that the laws were evidence of the Federalists' intent to crush individual liberties and, by expanding the powers of the national government, to crush states' rights. »
« Following Mexico's independence from Spain in 1821, American settlers migrated to Texas in even greater numbers, intent on wresting land from the vulnerable new Mexican nation to create a new American slave state. »
« The magazine's inside pages told readers that Coleman was the "victim of a judicial system so intent on dumbing down its procedures that whether or not he murdered Wanda McCoy has become a secondary consideration". »
« Thus, when the Russian armies returned home from the Congress of Vienna, a conspiracy of liberal officers emerged, intent on creating a liberal political order for the Russian state once the ageing, fanatically religious and arch-conservative Tsar Alexander I died. »

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