Sentence examples for bent on dictating from inspiring English sources

Especially among Protestant leaders bent on dictating new, austere rules for everyday life, embroidery was celebrated as women's work and actually called "work," as if it were the only option.

Of course, none of this would be relevant if Roberts did not have some semblance of a "judicial temperament" — if he were simply a younger version of Scalia, a radical reactionary bent on dictating immediate political and policy outcomes for narrow partisan purposes, regardless of the long-term consequences.

They are bent on revenge.

"Madmen bent on creating it.

They appear bent on cutting costs.

Iran seems bent on slamming it shut.

Some unions seem bent on confrontation, alas.

They were bent on destroying and killing".

It seems bent on out-Chubbing Chubb.

It was also likely to attract people bent on violence.

Yet Mr Erdogan still seems bent on confrontation.