Until Saturday, however, the Yugoslav Army and the Serbian irregulars said they were bent on decisive military action.
Alexander said: "It is disappointing that there are a minority of unions who seem hell bent on premature strike action before discussions are even complete.
Every Tom, Dick and Harry, every journalist facing fading ratings, every politician bent on substituting rhetoric for action, is calling for a conversation on race.
Today's pregnant woman could be forgiven for feeling that there's a vast conspiracy afoot, bent on controlling her every action, stripping her of every pleasure, and inducing guilt at every turn.
The novel deals on a personal level with the change in Bond from a depressed man in mourning, to a man of action bent on revenge, to an amnesiac living as a Japanese fisherman.
They were among a small subset of graffiti artists — a subculture within a subculture — emerging in the early two-thousands who were bent on reviving large-scale actions focussed exclusively on public transit.
Outside conservative groups, from the Texas Eagle Forum to various Tea parties in Texas to Empower Texas, a political action committee bent on irritating and defeating Democrats and moderate Republicans, have called either for Mr. Straus's ouster or for a House speaker — Mr. Straus or not — who is elected by the Republican caucus, without any say from the minority party.
The issue at hand is that America is extremely hell bent on refusing to take preventative action towards larger social issues.
An individual who consistently declares and demonstrates that he is bent on a particular course of action does not welcome intervention; he is invested in the path that he follows, for reasons that may be beyond anyone's control, reasons that are deeply rooted in his psyche.
He has described the sexual abuse accusations as "lies," and implied that the real origins of the case were in a smear campaign by unidentified forces bent on punishing him for WikiLeaks' actions in obtaining hundreds of thousands of classified United States government and military documents and posting large numbers of them on the Internet.
