Word: intentionally
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Lost in the ruckus was Lamm's original intent: to call attention to the alarming fact that "medical science is replacing God in deciding when we die," and to encourage discussion of the implications. "We can prolong our lives a few months or a year, but at what price?" Lamm asks. The Governor insists that he did not intend to endorse mercy killing: "In euthanasia, somebody else makes the decision. [ am merely saying people have the right :o die without medical science intervenng." In addition, he notes, the "falling leaves" metaphor was an attempt to paraphrase an article...
...20th century. Perhaps the camera and microphone magnified the effects of my spring up the stairs. Possibly I should have washed my face or taken half a dozen deep breaths before going on camera. The fact is, I was not thinking about my appearance. I was wholly intent on correcting any impression of confusion and indecision that Speakes' words may have inadvertently created. Certainly I was guilty of a poor choice of words, and optimistic if I imagined that I would be forgiven the imprecision out of respect for the tragedy of the occasion...
...infectious new mood of reconciliation followed suddenly upon a series of peace-negotiation failures. After nearly 18 years, the war between South Africa and a handful of black guerrillas intent on liberating Namibia, held by South Africa in violation of a United Nations ruling, had vastly broadened in scope. The presence of the guerrilla SWAPO bases on its territory brought Angola into the fray, and that led South Africa to retaliate with periodic raids and support for the pro-Western rebel National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). Lately, the painstaking negotiations for Namibian independence, calling...
Wiggins could not be reached for comment, but according to Calian, who had interviewed him previously, Wiggins' intent was "to shake up the neo-liberal attitudes on campus and provoke change." Calian added that he felt that Wiggins "got the shock he was after...
...head of the Minneapolis Civil Liberties Union says, unkindly, that the ordinance "has no redeeming social value." That seems a bit harsh. Set aside for a moment the pseudo findings, the creative definitions, the ambiguities. The intent of the bill is to do away with the blight of pornography. What can be wrong with that...