The main intention was to provide a solid economic basis for the migrating population.

Lawmakers have said their main intention for the law was to encourage American companies to build new operations and hire workers.

"My main intention was to make it sound natural in the mouths of American actors."

I'd suspect that his main intention was to provoke debate, which he has done to good effect.

If that happens, the law will have achieved one of its main intentions.

In sculpture the mere expression of aesthetic ideas is the main intention.

Finally, let me summarise the main intentions of this reform.

As the main intention of the report is nevertheless good, I finally chose to abstain.

Yet his main intention in agreeing to an interview seemed to be to explain that Unit 731 was not really so brutal after all.

The schools were set up with the main intention of providing education in the Chinese language.