Sentence examples for bent on imposing from inspiring English sources
Some 145 languages are threatened in East and South-East Asia.In this section An axis in need of oiling When nobody understands The weight of history Reprints Related items Marie SmithFeb 7th 2008Some languages, even robust ones, face an obvious threat in the shape of a political power bent on imposing a majority tongue.
But it requires cooperation from a Republican-led Congress bent on imposing spending restraint.
Yet that effort somehow ended up looking to much of the world as if America was bent on imposing violent change by means of raw power.
He is as much a rebel and a crusader — bent on imposing his harsh interpretation of sharia on others — as he is a terrorist.
A message on Twitter, one of the Shabab's favorite communication tools, which might seem incongruous for a militant group bent on imposing a seventh-century version of Islam, confirmed the pullout.
Instead, he sees Daniel Ortega as having converted the Sandinistas from "a party of ideology" bent on imposing a Marxist program to an "electoral party" organized to win elections and keep power.
"With each passing day, it becomes more apparent that Governor McGreevey is hell-bent on imposing over $800 million in new taxes on the people of New Jersey," Mr. Bennett said at his party's news conference, while Republican members of the budget committee stood grim-faced around the microphone.
It would be the biography of a frustrated and antagonistic Washington bureaucrat hell-bent on imposing his skewed public-interest vision of what's best for the marketplace by unfurling rolls of red tape, impeding the technological advancement of digital television and chilling free speech.
Well, I've been predicting for years that the court is hell-bent on imposing same-sex marriage on all 50 states.
And there seems to be a couple of states so hell-bent on imposing the death penalty, that they seemingly do anything to move forward with an execution -- even when it involves an execution of intellectually disabled.
And the despotic 85-year-old president still calls the shots in what is supposed to be a partnership of equals.From the outset, Mr Mugabe and his party hardliners have been bent on scuppering a deal imposed on them by the Southern African Development Community SADCC), a 15-country regional group, taking every opportunity to thwart and humiliate Mr Tsvangirai and his MDC ministers.
