Sentence examples for bent on extending from inspiring English sources

For conspiracy theorists who regard Ofcom's 40-year-old number two as a closet Birtist, bent on extending the regulator's writ over the BBC, there could be no clearer indication of where his loyalties lie.

Indeed, Thiel is putting serious money behind companies and groups bent on extending life, colonizing on ocean platforms, commercializing space, promoting so-called friendly artificial intelligence and leapfrogging DNA sequencing, among other causes.

Finally, as Subbulakshmi's voice begins to wind down, McMurray lowers himself to the floor at the back of the stage in a strange, half-human pose, balancing on one hip, legs bent, one arm extended upward.

They must acknowledge that they set about constructing a narrative creating the impression of the police as the thin blue line confronting thousands of men, bent on violence in order to extend the impact of the strike, a narrative briefed to Margaret Thatcher and her ministers that, with its element of truth, soon became the orthodoxy.

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.