And without resources, the best of intentions will come to naught.

Their efforts may be well intentioned, but, without better coordination, they will remain ineffective.

Both these books are similar in that both describe how, even with the best of intentions, our ambitions get the best of us.

Time and again, the best intentions and programmes for peacebuilding have been undermined by a lack of funds.

Notwithstanding the best intentions of all of us, continuing non action could lead to the loss of the CD's credibility.

BERKELEY Sometimes the worst intentions yield the best results. So it is, unexpectedly, with Argentine debt.

She agrees there are problems with Kony 2012, but thinks it's hard to be too critical when people have the best intentions.

The Summit of Muted 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.

Practice shows that the constant increase in credit levels, even with the most generous intentions, and the ongoing cancellation of past debts send the wrong message to debtor countries.

How noble are intentions when the facts showing their horrific results are readily at hand yet overlooked?

In time, even the most well meaning come to regard their wards with cold detachment, if not dehumanizing contempt.

Peoples Decade for Human Rights Education (Special, 1998)

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.

His legacy will remain a beacon for all people of good will.

The gnawing problem is one of good faith.

(a) The Statement of Intent, Brussels, November 2000

This is the point that the well intentioned regulators miss.

Politically and economically, it came with the best intentions.

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

But most of these well meaning schemes are missing an essential ingredient demand.

The uranium 235 projectile was completed on , and the target on .

Also it measures behavior directly, not reports of behavior or intentions.

We have seen that goodwill alone can get us only so far.

Their final outcomes are seldom congruent with their prime movers intentions.

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

Even the most well intentioned of today s government officials will undoubtedly fear the uncertainties of what a more educated and informed population might demand of them.

Many of McNamara s critics assert rightly, I think that he stopped short of full understanding, that he sought to hold fast to claims of noble intentions that the record could not sustain. How noble are intentions when the facts showing their horrific results are readily at hand yet overlooked?

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

You wish someone had such intentions for you, he said to his female critics.

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.

In this crisis, intention takes a back seat to action (or lack thereof).

Lastly, we are convinced that the Secretary General, in all good faith, has taken a wrong turn.

But, though well intended, the principles are woefully inadequate.

For the first time in years, they question their leaders real intentions and their capacity to deliver better living standards.

Many Doha bloggers strongly condemned the cartoon, but were undecided about the artist's intentions.

In a hypersensitive reality, stupidity equals malice.

In short, what is needed is a massive, joint initiative in innovation, applied science, development, and demonstration.

SAO PAULO As well intentioned gestures go, Earth Hour is hard to beat.

There are signs that the Syrians are unable to gauge American intentions on other issues as well.

Provision is made for hospitality to local dignitaries in the context of good will and in the official interest of the Mission.

In countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh, military interventions have disfigured the original intent and contents of the constitutions and thwarted the evolution of a secular system.

However, those intentions at the top have not necessarily filtered through all the layers of the institutions involved.

Well, as we gather here in Edinburgh, technocrats appointed by the U.N. and certain governments, with the best intentions, are busying themselves designing a new package of goals, and currently they're doing that through pretty much the same old late 20th century, top down, elite, closed process.

Likewise, for those Chinese who are suspicious of US intentions, conspiracy is always in play.