Sentence examples for Intent on ensuring from inspiring English sources

Intent on ensuring the safe passage of U.S. war matériel to the Soviet Union through Iran, the Allies forced Reza Shah to abdicate, placing his young son Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi on the throne.

This conviction has spawned hundreds of "growth clinics," which attract streams of toddlers and teenagers, shepherded by mothers intent on ensuring that their child will be the one looking down, not the one looked down upon.

The city's civic and business leaders are now intent on ensuring Manchester realises its digital potential.

And now some in Congress appear intent on ensuring that the states cannot force real reform.

However, the Americans seem to be intent on ensuring that all paperwork be completed.

We are intent on ensuring that those divisions don't further marginalise young people.

Mr. Negroponte said Syria and the Palestinians seemed "more intent on condemning Israeli occupation than on ensuring the safety of United Nations personnel".

But those efforts were obviously more focused on the stated intent of fostering political division than on ensuring a particular outcome in the 2016 election.

It shows a determined leader intent on creating opportunity for struggling Americans at a time of economic upheaval and on ensuring that the United States remains a force for good in an often brutal world.

The exclusion of age and socioeconomic factors from the determination of urgency rating scales was designed by intent to ensure that queuing priority was conducted in a transparent and equitable fashion based entirely on clinical necessity [ 6].

The founders were intent on — one could even say obsessed with — ensuring that the chief executive did not become "commander in chief" of the nation as a whole.