. _:b6900139 "(ambitransitive, usually followed by particle \"to\" + verb, or \"on\"/\"upon\" + noun) To fix the mind upon (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon"@en . _:b6900142 "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., \u2192OCLC:"@en . . . _:b6900144 "In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way."@en . . _:b6900143 "She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill."@en . _:b6900139 . "1" . _:b6900144 "2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, \u201C\u2018Killer robots\u2019 should be banned in advance, UN told\u201D, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6:"@en . _:b6900140 "He intends to go to university."@en . . _:b6900144 . _:b6900140 . _:b6900142 "The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator."@en . _:b6900141 . . _:b6900142 . _:b6900143 . _:b6900143 "1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:"@en . . _:b6900141 "They evidently intended some mischief."@en .