But since the passage of NCLB they have increasingly sided with an education establishment that is bent on defending the status quo from inconvenient reforms.
The group, which had faded in the 1870s, roared back to life, this time as a nationwide movement, bent on defending a racist and nativist American ideal.
The French, more typically bent on defending their language, translated it literally; hence racine de disette, which preserves the false etymology.
The idea that the United States, a nation bent on defending democracy and safeguarding stability, shares a common interest with the Islamic Republic of Iran, a revolutionary theocracy that is the No. 1 state sponsor of terrorism in the world, is as fanciful as the notion that Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler could work together for the good of Europe.
The imprisonment of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer falsely accused of treason, triggered a battle between conservative, Catholic, and military forces, all bent on defending the authority of army and state, and a more radical republican group joined by socialists, who saw the future of the republic at stake.
Yet in truth you are faced with a nervous board, a frankly aggressive tier of middle management hell bent on defending their pensions, a digital team who, despite being extremely keen, can only communicate in techno babble, and a legion of agencies and consultants pounding at your door.
On the premiere of HYSTERIA, VICE goes inside the Georgia Security Force III%, a small militia in a rural part of the state hell-bent on defending the Second Amendment.
Above all, the decision highlights the workings of a criminal justice system bent on chilling dissent and defending the status quo.
Market-watchers expect the Central Bank, whose president, Alexandre Tombini, is bent on showing his independence, to defend the inflation target by raising the benchmark interest rate, which is already at 11.25%.
In the military's bloody response to a Christian protest in Cairo in October, Egyptian television referred to Copts as though they were foreign agitators bent on subversion, calling on "honorable citizens" to defend the army.
It is also bent on raising the military cost to America of defending the island in any future crisis.
