Sentence examples for bent on enforcing from inspiring English sources

An array of fighters bent on enforcing a hard-edged brand of Islam and Shariah law — including members of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb — have seized the once tourist-friendly town of Timbuktu and other strategic sites, terrorizing or driving out any other claimants to power, destroying historic shrines and freely meting out punishment in the streets.

The manicurist and her friend are Christians, and, like other minority groups, they fear that a change of leadership would usher in a more conservative administration, perhaps delivering the country to Islamists bent on enforcing a tyranny of the Sunni Muslim majority.

His Former Holiness Benedict XVI was bent on enforcing doctrinal purity within the Catholic Church even as its membership in the West shrank and his bishops' scolding letters were read to increasingly empty pews.

He would lose two powerful, related tools of totalitarian control: the claim to be holding the line against an outside world bent on war and destruction; and the enforced isolation of his benighted people.

"Conduct remedies are particularly difficult to enforce against a company bent on exploiting any loopholes," he said, adding that Microsoft's continued insistence that it had done nothing wrong made it clear the government could expect little cooperation.

Even though state television has since flouted the injunction, the court's ruling underscores one of the greatest threats to stability and democracy in Afghanistan: a renegade judiciary bent on imposing its fundamentalist interpretations of the Koran rather than enforcing Afghan law.

But as with so much of what happens in Russia, working out the direction of that change depends on what you make of Mr. Putin: sinister former K.G.B. officer bent on dragging the country back toward the fearful obedience of the Soviet Union, or simply a tough but modern-minded enforcer intent on bringing some order out of chaos?

They are bent on revenge.

"Madmen bent on creating it.

They appear bent on cutting costs.

Iran seems bent on slamming it shut.