Sentence examples for bent on challenging from inspiring English sources

This is the Chinese paradox Google now appears bent on challenging.

Former Attorney General Eric Holder, who is part of a Democratic coalition bent on challenging race-based redistricting, said in a statement Monday that the Supreme Court's latest ruling should put legislators on notice about how they shape district lines.

Mr. Rumsfeld warned that Chinese leaders were bent on challenging American influence in Asia and continued to spend more on its military, particularly the forces poised across the strait from Taiwan.

It is a role Mrs. Clinton expects to play frequently in coming months, as the White House girds for a more hostile Congress bent on challenging or even blocking the Obama administration's foreign policy agenda, whether arms control, the Middle East peace process, the war in Afghanistan or the tentative outreach to Cuba.

Photograph by Michael Zagaris / Oakland Athletics / Getty Torn down to the studs and assiduously rebuilt by Epstein, this once creaky franchise now strikes me as baseball's version of the Obama campaigns that I helped to lead — young, hungry, joyful, and bent on using new tools to challenge conventional theories about how to win.

He said that he had acted in Iraq because he thought it represented the 21st-century threat of an outlaw state in a position to furnish weapons to terrorists bent on "another Sept. 11 or worse" unless challenged.

Yet even as we crave such challenges, we seem bent on reprogramming our daily lives to remove most of them.

But they and the 1,500 other European troops deployed in Macedonia will face an increasing challenge from provocateurs bent on wrecking the electoral process.In Kosovo, meanwhile, UN police this week detained six senior veterans of the Kosovo Liberation Army on charges of killing fellow-Abanians in June 1999, soon after NATO's victory.

Thus, whether the "danger" zone lies below two degrees Celsius or above, the world seems bent on reaching it — with all the suffering and challenges to "civilized society" that go with it.

The kingdom faced financial ruin and a serious challenge from the popular Egyptian leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser, who seemed bent on dominating the Arabian peninsula.

Just as in those fresh days from decades ago, Baez continues to sing out injustice, the challenge and responsibility to be decent in a world bent on bending goodness into greed and simple pleasure into perversity.