Sentence examples for bent on achieving from inspiring English sources

For people bent on achieving superstar status in the business world, knowing one language is often not enough.

But a determined MBA student, hell bent on achieving his career goal, can eventually secure a satisfactory job, even if not a dream job.

These developments prove that in a democracy, a police and prosecutorial system can prevail if it is bent on achieving a particular result.

Flashes of electric light and the ongoing whirr of telephones and wireless add to the sense of a society bent on achieving technological mastery.

In the years following the Council of Nicaea, the emperor was bent on achieving unity within the church, and so the supporters of the Nicene Creed in its extreme form soon found themselves forced into the position of dissidents.

THERE is a long tradition of the conductor as autocrat, bent on achieving perfection, willing to berate instrumentalists and whip them into performances worthy of the masters, whom, naturally, only the conductor understands.

Having produced music of an unprecedented intensity, Coltrane was heaven-bent on achieving still greater intensity.

Saddam is hell-bent on achieving atomic bombs, atomic capabilities, as soon as he can".

Indeed, as Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake has observed, opposition to this unprecedented mandate has served to unite "liberal progressives and conservative libertarians" against an escalating "corporatist control of government that politicians in both parties seem hell-bent on achieving".

Miranda was an indefatigable performer bent from girlhood on achieving stardom.

Some have been termed "jihad Salafists" bent on violence to achieve their aims.