Sentence examples for bent on controlling from inspiring English sources

The constitutional movement seeks to introduce strict Islamic law and views American policy in the Middle East is biased toward Israel and bent on controlling Arab oil wealth.

Still, a widespread and fashionable view is that the United States is a classically imperialist power bent on controlling global oil supplies and on military domination.

What was on display at the Ottawa convention - while larger, younger and more diverse than ever - was a party still bent on controlling and managing the energy of its grassroots, rather than empowering and channeling it.

That is the crux of a dispute swirling through Suffolk County government, pitting the county executive, Steve Levy, who is bent on controlling spending, against legislators bent on maintaining services and public-service unions bent on maintaining staffing levels.

[C4.] Report Warns of Nations Misusee of Web Filtering A new report raises questions about the use of filtering technologies -- often developed by Western companies -- by autocratic governments bent on controlling what their citizens see and do on the Web.

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 slave power, argued northerners, consisted of the southern slaveholding political class; they were obsessively bent on control of every level of government and every institution – presidency, courts, and Congress.

Gulen's press team at Zaman have been working furiously since December of 2013 to portray Prime Minister Erdogan as a corrupt dictator, hell bent on control and oppression.

Viewed from 1984 to 1988, du Pont looks like he does in the film: A deeply disturbed man bent on control as a means of massaging his own ego, who fails to comprehend humanity and real social interaction.

Conservatives emerged from the Bork battle bent on winning control.

Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front, founded in Libya in 1988-89, launched the insurgency in 1991, bent on winning control of Sierra Leone's government and diamond fields.