Word: intends
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Parlika is undeterred. "We intend to contact the government," she says. "The demonstration was the first move to get them to notice. We want women to take part in every conference and every session of the new government...
...They're not real runaways, the girls insist, because they intend to go home sooner or later?and they have cell phones. "Our parents can reach us anytime," Yuko argues. "They know where we are, sort of." Amazingly, the police use the same measure to define a runaway?if your parents can contact you, you're not really missing. Which explains why the official numbers of Tokyo runaways?though up 15% over the past five years?remain relatively low. Of the 1.4 million minors in the metropolis, about 2,000 were taken into custody as runaways last year...
...Many travelers are simply staying within their own domestic borders. An English Tourism Council survey says that 1 million people in the U.K. intend to take a holiday in Britain. On the Continent, holiday makers are planning to travel shorter distances...
...could not agree with him more. Al Qaeda does intend to bomb civilians. Al Qaeda does intend to make war on Christians and Jews. The Taliban does intend to continue to protect those who carry out these acts, and the Taliban does intend to continue to disrupt the United Nations’ humanitarian relief efforts by commandeering their equipment and offices, allowing millions to starve...
...column, “Paved With Good Intentions” (Opinion, Nov. 14) Nader R. Hasan ’02 helpfully reminds us that, in the course of the war on terrorism, we, the United States, do not intend to “bomb civilians,” “make war on Muslims” or “starve millions of people” but that nevertheless “we do it.” He concludes that the “only” thing distinguishing the United States?...