Sentence examples for bent insisting from inspiring English sources

He was responding to claims by Woman's Hour presenter Jane Garvey that his station has "a massively middle-class bent", insisting that the term is "confusing and close to running out of meaning".

And it is rumored to have had backing from the Shiite-led Iraqi central government, which many Kurds insist is bent on destabilizing the region to take control of its oil.

In asking musicians to produce them, Bach was insisting that they bend the instrument to their will, and to his.

But you knew the match wasn't going to work from the moment Danny asked her what she'd like to drink and she specified Indian tea, in tones that suggested she was bending over backwards by not insisting on a particular plantation.

Nevertheless, he highlighted his willingness to be forthright and cast himself as more principled than his primary opponents, insisting he would not bend and sway to the political winds.

The E.U., for its part, has sent mixed signals, with Germany insisting it won't bend terms of the current Greek deal even as France advocates more pro-growth policies.

Not so insisted the White House, he just bent his body in the middle a little bit.

We do owe people of fundamentally different world views respect for their difference, and insisting that they have to bend to ours in all instances is uncivilized.

Like bending two of my fingers sideways and insisting "I feel no pain" when they said, "Give us your dinner money or we'll break all your bones".

Although insisting that he was not bending to public pressure, palace director Jean-Jacques Aillagon announced that the contemporary art program at Versailles would be temporarily suspended at the close of Murakami's exhibition.

This communitarian critique continues by accusing liberal and libertarian theories of being falsely universalistic, in insisting that all societies should bend themselves to fit within a standard-sized grid of rights.