Sentence examples for bent on doing from inspiring English sources
She might on the other hand grow to be a nuisance to her friends and a ready tool in the hands of unscrupulous men bent on doing one another harm.
"No law will ever stop someone who is bent on doing evil," said Scott Bach, a board member of the National Rifle Association and the executive director of the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs.
And he appears bent on doing just that.
But many are also Islamic extremists bent on doing away with a secular regime.
But porous borders can also be exploited by terrorists, organized criminals, narcotics traffickers and money launderers bent on doing harm.
A UN force, however big, will not stop Hizbullah or Israel from fighting each other again, if either side is bent on doing so.
So, Bayh is a "big deficit hawk" whose idea of "coming to grips" with deficits is to blithely assert the primacy of a war that he can't build a case for -- at the expense of other programs in the budget that he won't build a case against, other than to suggest that they are getting in the way of paying for the war, the cost of which he's already bent on pretending doesn't exist.
Post-graduation, the art world was bent on rewriting history, doing away with art that looked too much like, well, art. .
But in a country bent on success, it does raise an important question: what happens to those who do not make it?
Ever politic, and bent on war, he did what he was told, although in one version of the story, laid forth by Euripides in his final play, "Iphigenia in Aulis," the girl was spared as her father prepared to strike, and was replaced by — yet again — a deer.
