It may be hard to prove in court

Usage examples of intent.

The dwarves said theyve never met a band of Dark Brothers so intent on running away, like they had to get somewhere and couldnt take the time to fight.

Marcaine in the open box, the HARMFUL INTENT 179 chances that his ampule would be used that day were good, especially with two epidural cases listed on the big board.

The professionals one could tell miles off, it was unmistakable: the hard exoskeleton and all the intent personal hatreds, the love of tools, the care, the fastidiousness.

On the other hand, he could be lying about his intent to see the marriage annulled, simply to get her to court without argument.

Intent upon learning who had come to haunt Appleton Manor, she launched a rapid pursuit.

No doubt the unhappy French monarch had suffered waking and sleeping nightmares of English foemen pushing out from Calais, Aquitaine-English and Navarrenos marching up from the southwest while Aragonese ships harried and raided the Mediterranean coast, Savoyards coming from the southeast, and Burgundians from the west and north, all intent upon slicing sizable chunks out of the French pie.

The same doctors who listen to Continuing Medical Education audiocassettes on their car stereos, intent on keeping up with every innovation that might improve their outcome statistics, may regard cross-cultural medicine as a form of political bamboozlement, an assault on their rationality rather than a potentially lifesaving therapy.

It was in fact a pig rooting, as fine a babirussa as he had ever seen: the animal was snorting and grunting at a great rate, wholly intent upon a wealth of tubers.

Hecarried a plastic case with a dish of honey in it, with the obvious intent of capturing a few bees for experimental purposes.

Swiss, who, from the station of a foot soldier in the Dutch service, out of which he had been drummed for theft, had erected himself into the rank of a self-created chevalier, this hero fortified himself with a double dose of brandy, and betook himself to a certain noted coffee-house, with an intent to affront Count Fathom in public.

To my surprise, I suddenly found no resistance, as the enemy troops simply parted to let me pass through, a single maddened Greek being of little consequence to the Persians intent upon rushing the Boeotian fire and screaming camp followers.

The other woman plucked a piece of broadleaf grass, then began absently shredding it, her expression intent.

There were the usual doxies, tinkers, charlatans, and traders, intent on separating the crew of the Bucephalas from their money.

The two Frenchmen seemed intent on following him into the narrows, and had gained enough on Bucephalas to give themselves the option of sitting in his wake, or altering course to the south of de Sirade.

She listened with only half an ear to the byplay between Kit and John Travis as she gazed out the window, intent on the mountain scenery, her deep leather cabin chair swiveled in a conversational mode toward the sofa.