likely intention

Throughout this period he was making highly prescient statements about Germany's likely intentions.

Do you explain Brown's likely intentions?

Even Mr. Kallberg was flummoxed, studying it repeatedly over 20 years before finally unraveling the composer's likely intentions.

"The governor has made it clear that his most likely intention is that he will run again," his spokesman, Michael McKeon, said this afternoon.

In 573 Leovigild subdued the region of "Sabaria" (probably between Zamora and Salamanca) with the likely intention of preempting Miro.

A provision for interest in the budgetary estimates indicated the government's likely intention to block a 1991 court order outlawing interest, which was forbidden under Islamic law [see also pp. 38683-84].

The port of Liverpool, which had improved its defences when news of Thurot's likely intentions emerged the previous autumn, called in reinforcements, and more Royal Navy ships were despatched from Portsmouth and Plymouth.

Despite Bingham's likely intention that the 14th Amendment apply the first eight Amendments of the Bill of Rights to the States, the U.S. Supreme Court subsequently declined to interpret it that way in the Slaughter-House Cases and United States v. Cruikshank.