Sentence examples for bent on eliminating from inspiring English sources

Hobbes's understanding of the emotions presented an important alternative to Descartes's 'functionalist' approach to the passions, one that made him attractive to authors such as Spinoza who were bent on eliminating even the whisper of teleological explanation.

"To an extreme legislative majority bent on eliminating the right to choice, everything looks like a health regulation, ready to be used and abused to dismantle access to that choice," Mr. Glazier said.

"Our educational establishment these days, while so tolerant of and even insistent on diversity in all other aspects of life, seems bent on eliminating the diversity of moral judgment, particularly moral judgment based on religious views," the devout Catholic said.

Berlusconi has claimed the Italian judiciary is bent on eliminating him from political life, and has taken his case to the European court for human rights claiming his personal and political rights have been violated.

The Wachowskis are as suited to the task of guiding this film as Neo is to saving the world from the onslaught of the Sentinels, computer emissaries bent on eliminating all vestiges of humanity.

The list is endlessly long and contradictory, vague to the point of including every possible enemy: Party leaders put near the top of their lists Iran and its Shiite militia allies in Iraq, which Iraqiya believes are bent on eliminating it because of the party's popularity among Sunnis, and its criticisms of Iran's influence in Iraqi politics.

Issa's staff already has released findings sympathetic to industries bent on softening or eliminating certain government regulations.

Today, whether Mr. Barak has unlearned his lesson or not, Hezbollah has no doubt that it was Israel who eliminated its top terrorist, and once more it is bent on vengeance.

The Decepticons, still bent on domination, will stop at nothing to ensure that the Autobots either submit to the Decepticons or are eliminated.

They are bent on revenge.

"Madmen bent on creating it.