Sentence examples for Economic bent from inspiring English sources

This suggests that the next wave of theorization about neighbourhood dynamics and crime may take an economic bent.

The speaker, Gennadi Seleznyov, a Communist, predicted that he would be confirmed easily, even though the Communists have serious questions about the Kremlin's economic bent.

The indictment comes at a difficult time for the United States government, as the NSA has been called down for interdicting shipments of hardware to foreign customers, not to mention espionage that has a stated economic and political bent (the Department of Commerce is, according to Glenn Greenwald, an NSA "customer").

It's fair to say that vulture funds are the scourge of impoverished countries, seemingly hell-bent on exploiting economic weakness across the globe.

Bent Flyvbjerg, a Danish economic geographer, has found that nine out of ten infrastructure mega-projects worldwide ran over budget and the same number finished behind schedule.

Kelly argues the encyclical "is a moral vindication of the left, remarkable in its sweep and intensity" which "reveals Francis and his advisers as environmental populists and economic ideologues of a quasi-Marxist bent".

However, this is a production that brings Brecht up to date – as when Colin Stinton's American General pronounces: "This is a war for God" – and exposes the illusion of achieving small economic victories in a world hell-bent on destruction.

The Internet didn't face opposition from an industry hell-bent on preserving its economic dominance.

In the 1990s, with no help from Russia and the USA hell-bent on Cuba's economic ruin, Cuba entered an era of extreme austerity called the "Special Period".

Bent on the pursuit of economic expansion at home and to the west, the northern white majority chose not to insist on aggressive action against slavery outside the north in making the Constitution or during early national expansion.

Americans are "bent on spending the windfall" from economic growth, said Vincent Boberski, senior economist at Dain Rauscher in Minneapolis.