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How to use the word intents in a Sentence?

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I think that what went right is that for all intents and purposes, Judy, I think we have won the ideological battle.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
4 years ago

A gilded cage is still a cage, there are locks on the doors, there is no freedom of movement. It is for all intents and purposes a prison.

Robyn Barnard

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's a lot easier to take plain ice cream mix and' dress it up' to become eggnog. For all intents and purposes, that's what eggnog has been.

Steven Young

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's a disgrace when every case gets filed in the 9th Circuit, that's not law. Every case in the 9th Circuit we get beaten and then we end up having to go to Supreme Court like the travel ban and we won. Every case, no matter where it is, they file is practically, for all intents and purposes, they file it in what's called the 9th Circuit. This was an Obama judge. I'll tell you what, it's not going to happen like this anymore.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

You have states that have legalized it now…. It is no longer a question of legal or illegal. It’s legal in Massachusetts. It may be legal in New Jersey. Which means for all intents and purposes it’s going to be here anyway.

Andrew Cuomo

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We knew it was going to be a very difficult battle, his doctor called it for all intents and purposes, ‘an angry mass’ — she knew it was a bad tumor after the colonoscopy; she thinks it was a polyp that went bad fast.

Caroline Johnson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The markets have been yearning for a period of political stability in Turkey for quite some time now. To all intents and purposes this is the best result that the markets could expect.

Nicholas Spiro

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They are more mature than some other of our potential adversaries, and I think they have some stated intents that concern me in terms of how the Cold War ended, they have shown some significant capability in Ukraine to do operations that are fairly sophisticated, and so, for me, I think we should pay a lot of attention.

Raymond Odierno

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Expectations were high when the military took over that they could kick-start spending quickly, but this has been difficult with the government's focus (rightly or wrongly) on constitutional reform, in hindsight, perhaps it was unrealistic to expect so much of a government that, for all intents and purposes, is a caretaker until democracy is restored.

Bill Diviney

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For all intents and purposes, I am a woman.

Bruce Jenner

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Canada is, for all intents and purposes, one of the best places you can explore.

Ian Ball

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

Charles Lamb

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Safe in thy breast close lock up thy intents, For he that knows thy purpose best prevents.

Randolph

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Angels and ministers of grace defend us.Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned,Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,Be thy intents wicked, or charitable,Thou com'st in such a questionable shape,That I will speak to thee.

William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
14 years ago

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

William Hazlitt

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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