(a.) Done by intention or design; intended; designed; as, the act was intentional, not accidental.
Example Sentences:
(1) A segment of vas deferens was transplanted to the contralateral deferens with the intention of improving treatment for certain cases of infertility caused by obstruction.
(2) The committee reviewed the history, original intent, current purpose, and effectiveness of meetings held on the unit; when problems were identified, suggestions for change were formulated.
(3) The intent of this study was to investigate, by three-dimensional photoelastic analysis, the stress transmission that occurs with four commonly used retentive systems.
(4) What shouldn't get lost among the hits, home runs and the intentional and semi-intentional walks is that Ortiz finally seems comfortable with having a leadership role with his team.
(5) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(6) negative intention and congruent behavior (CONG-, N = 42).
(7) All variables except perceived personal risk were found to be significantly related to the intention to provide medical care although knowledge showed the weakest relationship (Odds Ratio = 2.14).
(8) Contrary to the intentions of the devisers of this scale, it has been found that, significantly different assessments may result when the same patient is rated by various groups (psychiatrists, psychologists, students and psychiatric nurses).
(9) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
(10) Fifty-seven patients underwent local excision of an invasive distal rectal cancer as an initial operative procedure with curative intent.
(11) Black males with low intentions to use condoms reported significantly more negative attitudes about the use of condoms (eg, using condoms is disgusting) and reacted with more intense anger when their partners asked about previous sexual contacts, when a partner refused sex without a condom, or when they perceived condoms as interfering with foreplay and sexual pleasure.
(12) The breakdown of answers to both questions revealed a significant partisan divide depending on people’s voting intention, with Labor supporters much more likely than Coalition backers to see the commission as a political attack and Heydon as conflicted.
(13) The 5-year survival rate corrected for age was 64% in 546 operative survivors, and 82% in 413 patients operated with intent to cure.
(14) And they have no intention of letting it out of their grasp.
(15) Greece sincerely had no intention of clashing with its partners, Varoufakis insisted, but the logic of austerity was such that policies conducted in its embrace could only fail.
(16) The intent of this paper is to provide concerned professionals dealing with various aspects of human sexuality with information relevant to anal eroticism.
(17) Both the indirect and direct measures of attitude and social norm explained a significant amount of the variance in intention and BSE frequency.
(18) Judge John Burgess told the men that their intention was “to do great harm in a peaceful community”.
(19) But congressional aides said that House speaker John Boehner has not communicated his intentions for a floor vote to Sensenbrenner.
(20) With a patient who in suicidal intention had orally taken a larger quantity of Bi 58 EC (dimethoate) especially the behaviour of the serum cholinesterase activity and the whole blood acetylcholinesterase activity was observed over a period of 38 days and it was compared with the clinical appearance.
Wilful
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Wilfulness
Example Sentences:
(1) For 2 of the cell lines (A549 and WIL) 2.2 microM verapamil increased VP16 cytotoxicity (up to 4-fold).
(2) According to the document, Rupert Murdoch "did not take steps to become fully informed about phone hacking" and "turned a blind eye and exhibited wilful blindness to what was going on in his companies and publications".
(3) The FSA for its part is due to publish its own proposals on banking reform this week, and its recipe wil look less bold than King's speech, possibly reflecting the continuing tensions between the Bank and the FSA.
(4) David Cameron suggests that the prospect of giving prisoners the vote makes him feel physically ill. For a man with such an apparently delicate constitution, it is surprising that wilfully ignoring a succession of court rulings appears to have so little effect on him."
(5) Can't understand wilful&total destruction of EU expertise, with Cunliffe,Ellam&Scholar also out of loop.
(6) We were wilfully blinkered, probably, on the exact details of this last point.
(7) Clones resistant to 3-deazaaristeromycin, a potent inhibitor of S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase, were selected from a nucleoside kinase-deficient derivative of the WIL-2 human B-lymphoblastoid cell line.
(8) I suspect most of these angry Tory MPs are wilfully clueless.
(9) Anelay said: “The government believes the most effective way to prevent refugees and migrants attempting this dangerous crossing is to focus our attention on countries of origin and transit, as well as taking steps to fight the people smugglers who wilfully put lives at risk by packing migrants into unseaworthy boats.” The Home Office told the Guardian the government was not taking part in Operation Triton at present beyond providing one “debriefer” – a single immigration officer – to gather intelligence about the migrants who continue to make the dangerous journey to Italy .
(10) There now exists a political environment where a government wilfully and seemingly with impunity breaks international treaties, and denies basic human rights to the world’s most vulnerable.
(11) However, Downing Street said at the weekend that wilful malpractice by a nurse could lead to a maximum prison sentence of five years.
(12) The maim beam wil be directed in the axis of the condyle for sagittal tomography and perpendicularly for frontal tomography.
(13) "TWC made continuous use of the unregistered title The Butler in wilful violation of the TRB (Title Registration Bureau) rules," the board said.
(14) But she said: "If it's just wilful [lack of water conservation] we can shut the water off."
(15) In his first public appearance since his resignation, Clark insisted he had been "meticulous" in following ministerial instructions in a pilot scheme scaling back border checks during the summer: "I introduced no additions to the home secretary's trial, neither did I extend or alter it in any way whatsoever … I have not wilfully or knowingly sanctioned an alteration to border checks that contravened existing Home Office policy."
(16) Derivatives of the CEM T and WIL-2 B cell lines showed striking diversity in their responses to the HTLV-IIIB strain of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
(17) Blaming Israel for Gaza’s reconstruction delays is wilful ignorance | Daniel Taub Read more Standard-bearers for the pressure camp routinely claim that a conciliatory approach only reinforces the status quo.
(18) Powell maintained that he had "never knowingly or wilfully taken any supplements or substances that break any rules" and said that his team would launch an investigation.
(19) The long pilgrimage of pregnancy with its wonders and abasements, the apotheosis of childbirth, the sacking and slow rebuilding of every last corner of my private world that motherhood has entailed – all unmentioned, wilfully or casually forgotten as time has passed.
(20) On Tuesday she accused Autonomy of a "wilful effort to mislead".