Sentence examples for bent on asserting from inspiring English sources

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Cortines also faced constant political pressure from a mayor bent on asserting power over the district, and a variety of other outside forces.

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"Austin has changed from being a purely liberal city into being more centered, though still with a liberal bent," asserted Papermaster.

"The sport is moving on," he asserted.

Bent on escaping, she attempted more than one risky breakout.

The Twiggs brothers might be bent on committing "suicide by cop," according to one alert.

Haneke is less bent on self-expression.

Bent on vengeance, the two lobsters scuttled swiftly after Madoff.

Even so, Mr. Salazar remains bent on owning his medallion.

Tarantino is so bent on revenge that he imposes it retroactively, and counterfactually, on history.

Yahoo! was "so bent on being the future", he says, that it "missed the new".

You could say that, being police novels, they are conservative, bent on making people behave.

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