Sentence examples for bent on continuing from inspiring English sources

They were even aghast that Labour is bent on continuing to use private-sector money, raised through the Private Finance Initiative, to build new hospitals and schools.

But so far the regime seems bent on continuing to exclude Justice and Development from a governing coalition, which coalesced on an anti-Islamist platform.Many secular-minded politicians agree that the regime controls politics too tightly.

James Purefoy is the psychopathic genius, bent on continuing what he likes to describe as  his "art works" with the help of a troop of serial-killer  wannabes that he's groomed over the internet.

Great firebombing raids in 1945 brought destruction to every major city except the old capital of Kyōto; but the generals were bent on continuing the war, confident that a major victory or protracted battle would help gain honourable terms.

Hostility toward Beijing's moves to establish hegemony over the South China Sea and to dominate emerging industries such as artificial intelligence is growing in Congress and the Trump administration, which appears bent on continuing a bilateral trade war.

But she went to Detroit, where the 1980 Republican convention would be held, bent on continuing the long support of the E.R.A. and in beating back a plank calling for an anti-abortion constitutional amendment.

Although some expected Gove to at least distance himself from the reforms, it seems he is hell-bent on continuing on the same route.

In countless ways the president-elect seems hell-bent on continuing to corporatize the government – by splitting his time between Trump Tower and DC, by staffing his transition team with corporate flunkies, by insisting that running a country boils down to nothing more than "making great deals".

European officials in particular seem hell-bent on continuing the antitrust crusade of the '90s against Microsoft, myopically focused on fading paradigms (desktop operating systems and Web browsers).

However, the Republicans seem to be hell-bent on continuing their anti-Obama crusade, even though it harms their party and their cause much more than it hurts Obama or the Democrats.

As their affair continued, she was bent on marriage, though he seemed reluctant.