Sentence examples for bent on conquering from inspiring English sources

In fact, they seemed bent on conquering the city.Shias in many areas at first welcomed the Sadrists.

From that period through the 1980s he was presented as a mad scientist bent on conquering the world.

Christianity, he argued, was not intended to be an invasion force bent on conquering other gods and, in the colonial period, other peoples.

The palace was built for the Gresham Life Assurance Society, a British company bent on conquering a new market and leaving no doubt about its cash reserves.

Before they struck, we could think we had conquered the mortality of civilizations, just as we seem bent on conquering our own mortality.

And after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, he was seen as a Hitlerite tyrant bent on conquering the Middle East.

The conspiracy machine was sent into overdrive this week when the office of New Zealand's prime minister basically admitted that The Right Honourable John Key was in fact a reptilian shapeshifter hell-bent on conquering the human race.

The moral of the story being that if only we lived in a world less inclined to discourage lousy artists from continuing to create shitty art and more inclined to discourage lousy politicians from becoming monsters hell-bent on conquering the world we'd be a lot better off.

Opposition activists say the government often casts them as a fifth column, backed by Iran and bent on toppling the Khalifa dynasty, which conquered Bahrain in the 18th century.

Not the empty Napoleon bent on power, then, but the contradictory and tormented Napoleon, playing out his internal turmoil, enacting the role of Jung's "sacrificial victim" and indulging in irrational fantasies like conquering the East.

They are bent on revenge.