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Example sentences for: intend

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The Wall Street Journal reports that, according to Manpower Inc.'s latest employment-outlook survey, nearly a third of U.S. businesses intend to increase staffing in the third quarter.
And one is certain that Kenneth Rexroth, in his American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Herder and Herder, N.Y., 1971) did not intend to hint at closet biographical matter when, in Chapter I, he wrote that “Whitman's poems are full of men doing things together,” or, later in the same chapter, when he referred to “Whitman's joyous workmen swinging their tools in the open air.”
Word comes today that President Clinton's lawyers intend to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to offer a vigorous defense of their client, who will not appear.
"Given his personality, one can deduce that Moscow doesn't intend to surrender its international standing for the sake of its friendship with Washington, in spite of serious economic setbacks and the fact that it is dependent on American benevolence for overcoming them," the paper said.
Despite the use of manual spinal palpation by many health care disciplines, very few studies investigated their ability to measure what they intend to measure (content validity).