Good Trade Intentions Gone Bad

In some cases, good intentions may even aggravate the status quo.

But India s good intentions, like America s affirmative action policies, are misguided.

Good intentions count for little in life and for less in politics.

Now is the time to act enough of good intentions and statements.

Consider a ruler who comes to power with good intentions and great abilities.

Most of its reasonable proposals will soon become another example of forgotten good intentions.

Also, they almost all agreed they are waiting for action to prove the supposed good intentions.

Consider what has happened to liberalizing Protestant denominations, which, for all their good intentions, have lost adherents.

But all of us need to act with greater urgency in translating good intentions into concrete action.

In fact, despite its good intentions, providing anonymity in sex crime cases is extremely harmful to women.

Institutionalization is often based on good intentions and carried out in the name of therapy, care, and protection.

Despite the good intentions behind mitochondrial research, international concern about the implications of breaching this barrier is mounting.

The EU s goal of a 20 reduction by 2020 is an incredibly expensive way to signal good intentions. But wouldn t we rather do real good?

Good intentions count for little in life and for less in politics. What matters, first and foremost, are results.

Focusing on green R D might not feel as good as participating in a global gabfest with flashlights and good intentions, but it is a much brighter idea.

But perhaps it is such certainty in their good intentions that makes them blind to the damage that they are doing.

Some speakers today, with the best of intentions, spoke of the lack of good will on the part of Kosovo Serbs.

Focusing on green R amp D might not feel as good as participating in a global gabfest with flashlights and good intentions, but it is a much brighter idea.

We will not reach this goal by continuing to view the resolutions adopted by the General Assembly as a catalogue of good intentions.

He disclosed his intentions.

Gemalto, the company at the center of the story, has not yet responded publicly, but a video from the manufacturer shows its good intentions

Diana might have had a better life in the US, where people and the media are more ready to accept good intentions at face value.

The Summit of Muted Intentions

Two years on, are good intentions the best that Obama s new policy has to offer? After all, nothing of value has in fact resulted from them.

But without it, the G 20 will mostly likely be reduced to a talking shop, characterized by good intentions, but with no effective way of realizing them.

Enough words and good intentions in the present report I have largely limited myself to the decisions that I believe are both needed and achievable in 2005.

It was clear that the Goals would remain no more than a declaration of good intentions unless there was strong support and commitment from the international community.

Opera is not just about directorial intentions.

The failure of the Annan Plan for Cyprus suggests that good intentions are not enough and the disagreements in Cyprus were miniscule compared to what divides Israelis and Palestinians.

Chinese leaders embraced the cooperative nature of the post 1945 European process, but simultaneously took the Russian lesson to heart the West would not yield merely to good intentions.

The 6,000 delegates from the 135 countries that participated in the first World Humanitarian Summit, held in Istanbul last month, could not have been more full of good intentions.

We are not ready to make pledges with respect to a reformed CERF, but we understand the good intentions behind the ideas and see some merits in the proposal.

I made known my intentions to my parents.

Actions are to be judged by their intentions.

Netizens were also worried about the government's intentions

He cloaked his evil intentions with his friendly behavior.

Politically and economically, it came with the best intentions.

Intentions matter, but without actions, they don t mean squat.

Once we change those two things if you say the Africans are poor and they need poverty reduction, you have the international cartel of good intentions moving onto the continent, with what?

Indeed, the West has consistently misread Russia s intentions on Kosovo.

Assessments of progress cannot be limited to intentions or desires.

Pull one thread the celibacy requirement for priests, for example and the whole edifice comes crashing down. Consider what has happened to liberalizing Protestant denominations, which, for all their good intentions, have lost adherents.

But, while this uncertain approach may suffice as a basis for declarations of good intentions, it does not inspire the confidence required for countries to make the profound financial commitment that is now needed.

If you judge a government on the basis of its good intentions, those who support an American foreign policy that emphasizes the promotion of human rights internationally should cheer President George W. Bush s reelection.