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The art of losing isn't hard to masters; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

That was the original intent and understanding. Jim came on three years ago with the understanding of working with Flanagan for a period of time that would result in Mike assuming the position of general manager of the ballclub.

That was a killer for us, it changed everything in the football game. The rule is once you move forward with the ball, the punter is a live target. The officials called that the punter had intent to punt the whole time after he picked it up off the ground. That's a tough call to make.

That was our theme from the get-go. There was no criminal intent to defraud.

We must protect this fragile compromise from those intent on gutting this bill.

When you're going after somebody's head, you've got intent to hurt. Don't tell me the knee is accidental after that. He knew exactly what he was doing, and should pay a price for it.

We've had calls on a variety of guys, but there's no intent on our part to move him. For me, it's important as I get accustomed to this role to have an open and honest relationship with these guys. I didn't want David to focus on anything except what's in between the lines.

We're not backing into squat. We're going to Clay with the intent of beating them. I don't want anyone saying we backed into anything.

We're working on finalizing ... the next step, which is to notify Congress on the intent to sign the (Peru) agreement within 90 days.

We have two national restaurant chains that are interested and one local. We can't really sign letters of intent yet because we really don't know how much rent we'll charge the end users.

We have the government being very aggressive on the concept of criminal intent in jury charges. And now we have the number two example of it being overturned.

We know the purpose and intent of this building, but reading the fine print, the building retains back to the county.

Unlike (the NASA) robots, Beagle 2 won't be going sightseeing. It is intent on discovering where there is or was life on Mars. It is happy to trade measurements for mobility.

Under the independent counsel statute, the intent really is not at issue in the first 30 days, ... I cannot consider that.

We came to the Indianapolis area with the intent of eventually opening three or four locations,

We have not been issuing licenses to out-of-state couples without their intent to move here.

We know that after September 11, there were still terrorists around. We do get continuing information that they're intent on causing some damage and harm to not only U.S. interests but allied interests.

We'll never know how effective it was. ... Sununu won by a bigger margin than anyone expected. But that's not the point. It was wrong. ... We have 400 (state) legislative races. The intent may have been to influence one election, but it may have affected hundreds of races.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of weapons kids have access to. It wasn't any intent -- it was an accident.

We were in strong support of the intent of this bill, but, I'm sad to say, it currently is a step back for surface owners.

We're not stopping here, ... We're intent on driving positive results in the U.S. and Europe and implementing new initiatives in Asia and Latin America. I am confident of another good year in 2004.

When designing Guestroom 2010, HFTP will conduct an exhaustive global search for the industry's cutting-edge and future technology. Our intent is for Guestroom 2010 to be an important reference for the industry and the possibility exists that we will take the display to other venues.

We have made design adjustments with the intent of avoiding the shrine. We are pretty confident we will be able to avoid it.

We have letters of intent out on both projects. We haven't broken ground on either project, but the interest in these projects has been extremely good, both from national tenants and local.

We are cooperating with the spirit and the intent of the law. We are not coming down with a huge hammer.

We are confronting a regime which is intent on genocide,

We are going for a more realistic look. The point here is that we're creating a children's worship room that is representative of their neighborhood. The intent is that worship of God is not just limited to a church building. Worship should take place everywhere, every day -- at a power plant, in a warehouse.

We are going for a more realistic look, ... The point here is that we're creating a children's worship room that is representative of their neighborhood. The intent is that worship of God is not just limited to a church building. Worship should take place everywhere, everyday -- at a power plant, in a warehouse.

There are ballots that the machine cannot read but from which voter intent can be discerned by manual review.

This study clearly shows a significant positive impact on brand perceptions and purchase intent for luxury auto manufacturers when they master the online experience. For those who don't provide a superior online experience, they are actually damaging their brand and taking the air out of their multi-million dollar advertising campaigns.

This statement of intent is not a commitment to do any of those things specifically, it's an indication that we are investigating those matters and if anything specific comes out of it, in due course it will be something that is bought before the council.

Today's announcement demonstrates Corel's commitment to provide customers with powerful, flexible and affordable digital imaging software tailored specifically to meet their needs, ... Corel Paint Shop Pro X and Corel Photo Album 6 set a new standard in ease of use and demonstrate Corel's intent to clearly differentiate itself within the rapidly expanding digital imaging market.

Today we are signing a letter formalizing the intent of NASA Centennial Challenges and the X Prize Foundation to work towards a future agreement for two X Prize Competitions,

We don't know what his intent is one way or the other. Certainly any business has a necessity of planning for its own future. That's his business, so we have really no reaction to that one way or the other.

We want to make a platform that is inherently secure, by design and by default, ... But we know there are always going to be people with malicious intent out there that will work to exploit things in the digital world.

We want to help Odessa succeed. Our intent is to educate people, not so they can speak for us, but so they can speak for themselves.

The defense can still present circumstantial evidence that he could not form the intent to kill, ... All this means is that they can't call the experts they couldn't call anyway because he refused to be examined.

The fact that terminator technology will work to the disadvantage of the subsistence farmer who depends on harvesting seeds for the next year's crops illustrates the intent of the companies, which is to get the maximum return on their investment,

The experienced players have to take the lead in not getting down and we did that. (The Black Bears) weren't as physical as I thought they'd be. Maine was intent on playing its system too much, which made it easier to play them.

What is the quality of your intent?Certain people have a way of saying things that shake us at the core. Even when the words do not seem harsh or offensive, the impact is shattering. What we could be experiencing is the intent behind the words. When we intend to do good, we do. When we intend to do harm, it happens. What each of us must come to realize is that our intent always comes through. We cannot sugarcoat the feelings in our heart of hearts. The emotion is the energy that motivates. We cannot ignore what we really want to create. We should be honest and do it the way we feel it. What we owe to ourselves and everyone around is to examine the reasons of our true intent.My intent will be evident in the results.

We learned in 2003 that the federal government was headed towards researching, funding, developing and testing new nuclear weapons. I am the only member of the Utah delegation to oppose those efforts. The intent is clear - research, develop and test new nuclear weapons and each step along the way moves us toward new nuclear weapons testing.

There are a lot of parents wanting to know how this is going to work. It's important for parents to have a good understanding. Our intent is to provide a full educational program during the transitional period.

While some have argued that the Second Amendment guarantees only a 'collective' right of the states to maintain militias, I believe the amendment's plain meaning and original intent prove otherwise.

While President Bush remains focused on defending Americans against those intent on doing us harm, John Kerry remains focused on attacking President Bush.

We've worked together with our team for ages. The intent would be to continue what Matt and his team have been doing for years.

We condemn this action and repeat that the extremist forces are still intent to destroy any efforts toward peace.

We will do whatever is necessary to close down any loopholes, real or perceived. She wants to ensure that the original intent of the Empire Tract deed cannot be circumvented.

We would have liked five to life against Danny Villa, too, but as I said at the sentencing, the case was not as strong against him, ... It's very egregious to enter someone's home - especially with the intent to cause bodily injury. We take those crimes seriously and ask for the maximum penalty.

This response is an act of self-defense against a Delta management that seems intent on rejecting our contract.

There has been marked increase in the incidence of larger and more deadly explosive devices, including suicide bombings. The perpetrators of these attacks have shown a growing intent to target civilians, government officials and reconstruction workers.

There is a clear intent in our mind that they intended to do a home invasion. And during processing they indicated that they intended to do a home invasion.

To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole in what we take to be modernism - even in what we take to be the ordinary fabric and intent of language. Nothing is like 'The Hunger Artist.' Nothing is like 'The Metamorphosis.'

We didn't feel it was Tucker's intent to hurt Janssen with the helmet ... he was trying to get the helmet off and I don't think he was trying to use it as a weapon.

We believe our disposition program is tracking well as we have a number of properties under contract or letter of intent to sell at this time. The proceeds from these sales will provide us the opportunity to recycle capital and lessen our need to raise new equity.

To think that it could have been done on purpose, with no intent to make good on it.

We have signed a letter of intent (to study a sale).

This serves to provide a history of logic and understanding for future generations to help clarify the ultimate intent of a decision made on a public policy matter.

There are going to be in the short term terrifying, confusing moments (like) attacks on Iraqi police headquarters. The intent (by the opposition) is to produce destabilization, to cause people to say let's get out of here, they don't like us.... I don't think the U.S. is going to cut and run.

When you have guys like Dixon and Blake basically have career nights, that really sets you on the edge as a team. We didn't come out with the intent to play defense tonight.

When you go high in the face, your intent is not to knock the ball out. Your intent is to seriously hurt somebody. You're talking about a potentially career-ending neck injury. I've run over a couple of catchers in my time, but I never went that high on one. You go for his glove.

The previous bill was a sham, and as a result, we have a lot of citizens breaking the law. My intent with this bill is to make sure Hoosiers who want to safely practice the discharge of fireworks can do that.

When someone says 'Happy Holidays,' they're saying something very nice to you. There's no ill intent behind any of this. When you're dealing with the public you'll get positive comments and negative comments about everything in the world.

Every writer must find a way of writing that tells the reader: This is me and no one else. The Voice can be idiosyncratic, but it cannot be obscure. It is a blend of style and content and intent and rhythm and pure personality.

False alarms are down dramatically, and we're very pleased. That was the intent of the ordinance, and it's working.

But the intent is still there and the drive is there, and we see that at home. People may not see it as much out here. They don't think he works as hard as Vijay, but he's every bit as driven as Vijay is. He just brings it here. He doesn't try to find it here, he brings it with him.

The governor's intent is to bring sheriffs to the table and discuss the possible changes that might be made.

The governor has a great working relationships with senators from both parties. He regrets that comments he made in a recent interview were interpreted as bravado. The governor's intent is to always focus on policy proposals and options rather than personalities.

The government in seeking this data is not attempting to obtain information about individual computer users. Our sole intent is to make the Internet safer for our youth.

The government tends to see evil where there is good, corrupt intent where there's none.

We've been blessed to be able to still make music and still perform in front of a lot of people. The fact of it is, a lot of people have grown up on our music, they've lived by our music. Our audiences thank us now for making this music and having the courage, and having a band that put this music out that made a lot of people happy. Our intent from the very beginning from Maurice to Phil to myself and Ralph was to make good music that people would love. We're proud of that.

While this has been a tough six months, we are intent upon improving the business by building comparable sales around the world through improved operations, effective marketing and menu development,

We wanted to be in the southern part of the country to take advantage of the growth and emergence of these markets versus what we're seeing in the northeast region. The company's intent is to bring local people on board and offer them the opportunity to join us as long-time associates. We're not here to fill 200 jobs from other places. We want to use local people.

Theoretically, it's probably not going to be worth your while to apply. That's one of the problems we're working on. We have to go back to our original intent (for the money). It is our intent to help people who relied on the government. There are people who have already started to rebuild. How do you go back and help them?

The original intent was a means to predict future workers should a company decide to expand.

There is no intent to sneak a pay raise back in.

We will be able to keep the network fresh and able to meet the latest standards. Our intent and goal is to keep it state-of-the-art.

We want to get a feel for our membership. Actually, the committee is very upset with the company's latest and final offer. Our intent is to go out there and educate them on what's happening.

You judge military threat in two ways. There're lots of countries in the world that have the capacity to wage war. Very few have the intent to do so. And clearly, we have a complex but good relationship with China. So there's absolutely no reason for us to believe there's any intent on their part.

You have to be able to audible depending on what kind of defense they are showing. You don't want to stick with a dead play. Say they bring eight people to the line or somebody is left uncovered. He does have the green light to do certain things, and that makes it fun for him just so long as the intent of what we're trying to do is pretty much the same.

What Congress did was much more symbolic than it was substantive. The law has not changed, because the law has always said that a signature is a symbol adopted with someone's intent to comply. It could be an X, a thumbprint, or even your company letterhead. The legal issue has always hinged on what you intend.

What Congress did was much more symbolic than it was substantive, ... The law has not changed, because the law has always said that a signature is a symbol adopted with someone's intent to comply. It could be an X, a thumbprint, or even your company letterhead. The legal issue has always hinged on what you intend.

We feel the plant is more than an intent to knock the socks off competition, ... We feel this plant is a substantial lasting contribution to the living standards of all Americans.

We imprint and project on songs what we want so that they become more important to us. We imprint intimacy in the songs, give them a narrative separate from and parallel to what the author's intent was. In that way, we make the songs symbolic of our own relationships.

We think that we're going to become intimately involved with the arbitration process given the nature of how young our roster is. The intent of the hearing is to solve differences that can't be resolved through negotiations. It's not ideal for the team or the player, but sometimes it's necessary.

We think that threats become evident when a capability to invade is coupled with an intent to invade.

We didn't involve ourselves in their proceedings and it's very disturbing that they now seem to be intent on involving themselves in ours,

Bottom line, the issues of premeditation and intent are going to be the issues in this case.

Brad crossed the line and for that he must take accountability, ... We have talked in detail and he has assured me that his actions on the play at issue were a result of over-aggressiveness and over-exuberance to block a challenging opponent and without malice. His intent was to take the player to the ground, not to inflict injury. In any case, we regret that the incident occurred and apologize to Mathias.

Even though we're talking about closing courses for next year, this is about keeping the intent of what the city council had passed.

Bill Scranton acted quickly, decisively and correctly. That's one of the reasons he will be a great governor. ... People who know me will realize that I had no intent to inject race into the discussion, but only to emphasize the odd twist in the campaign.

At this point in time it is not our intent to stop the project. This project has legs. The degree to which those legs can run is dependent upon whether or not we can reach a local agreement.

Community divisiveness was the intent from the beginning.

CONVERSATION, n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

federal crimes committed in the course of, and with intent to interfere with, your investigation, such as perjury, obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence, and intimidation of witnesses.

Every time we step on the floor the intent is to gain some valuable experience. I look at the playoffs as we are one of the few teams getting that opportunity. We want to make the most of it and hope it pays dividends ideally now, but certainly later.

Everything is in a bubble. Everybody that missed the stock market bubble is intent on identifying, or even labeling, the next one.

There's a difference between using the Princeton name based on the location, verses an intent to trade on the Princeton reputation.

There's got to be a crunch point over Iran. At the end of the day Iran is intent on uranium enrichment and the West won't allow it.

There's no attempt to usurp anything. The intent is to communicate. I wanted to show my thanks to these people who buy my records and listen to the music we release and do the jobs I don't want to do.

The union was notified of the company's intent to relocate 130,000 hours of machining work to Singapore.