Sentence examples for bent on modernizing from inspiring English sources
They supported "perestroika", but went well beyond Gorbachev: he has seemed bent on modernizing a socialist system "Ogonyok" on burying the system.
It is only the latest in a growing number of disputes that have inflamed conflicts between discontented local residents of villages scattered across Southeast Asia and government officials bent on modernizing their countries by forging closer links to their neighbors and the wider global economy.
Don't people understand that the culture of pets is a very recent arrival in Korea?" To describe the collision of viewpoints about the eating of dog meat as a misunderstanding probably ranks as the understatement of the season in a country bent on modernizing.
Naturally, no one elects popes on modernizing platforms.
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.
