Sentence examples for bent on keeping from inspiring English sources

Between all the yeah's and truly remarkable fashion that filled Season 1, viewers caught an enthralling story about the criminal justice system and accusations of police and government corruption in a small town seemingly bent on keeping one man behind bars.

One of the most interesting tensions here is between one aggressively gloomy doctor, who seems bent on keeping Justin's prognosis grim and casting a cold eye on his progress, and Justin's parents, who, though dry-eyed, reject bad news.

These feelings have deepened in recent weeks, as the American war in Afghanistan seems even to people who profess admiration for the United States to be proving one of Mr. bin Laden's points: that Americans seem bent on keeping Muslims subservient.

The Eagles will be bent on keeping the Redskins in check.

For all the talk of convergence, consumers are bent on keeping PC and TV separate.

There are still powerful forces bent on keeping it in the darkness of petty rules and a harsh clerical judiciary.

If the new administration is hell-bent on keeping Manning locked up, however, there is one avenue they could take, albeit an unlikely one.

The government is hell-bent on keeping voters away from anything that looks like a referendum.

But the UK seems hell-bent on keeping coal as a major part of the energy mix.

For six years the government tried and failed to find a private buyer for Creditanstalt, the country's most international bank, hampered by a management hell-bent on keeping the bank independent.

In my seriously secular neck of the woods, Christians are often dismissed as those homophobes on the news hell-bent on keeping half the population of Chelsea out of the wedding pages.