Sentence examples for apparently bent from inspiring English sources

"Yo, Blair," said the president, carelessly, as Mr Blair apparently bent to do his bidding.

Some or most of them are Chechens, apparently bent on opening a second front.

First it was the weather forecasters, now it's Michael Gove – both apparently bent on the abolition of summer.

They then returned, militant wayfarers apparently bent on inciting an Afghan-style insurgency in this tinderbox of a valley in Central Asia.

They had come on foot from the low hills surrounding this rocky plateau, Muslim herdsmen apparently bent on revenge for similar killings in January and angry over what one rights group said were cases of cattle rustling.

Children, Bech tardily observes, are "the biological key that turns another lock, in this case that of an identity implausibly extended from his own, like a stick thrust into the water and apparently bent".

In May last year, the global aluminium trade got a boost: the left-leaning government was ousted by a centre-right coalition apparently hell-bent on opening up the highlands to industry in the name of economic development.

The plight of the Science and Technology Facilities Council - having to cut the budget for pure research in the hard sciences (Leaders, December 17) - is the next stage in a long saga of shrinkage instigated by a ruling class apparently hell-bent on vandalising the heritage of Newton and Halley.

But many within them are now openly beginning to question the logic of continuing to do business with a man apparently hell-bent on taking himself and those around him in Fatah, over the edge of a political cliff.

They said that Mr. Bent was apparently approaching the building, which serves as both a day care center and a residence, to visit someone who lives there, but that the motive for the shooting remained unknown.

He rolls across the stage, slightly bent and swaying, apparently propelled by the fountain of his own words.