Sentence examples for bent on obstructing from inspiring English sources
But House Republicans, who are bent on obstructing the health reform law, would never agree to helpful changes, especially one that would increase federal spending.
Behind the scenes, though, the establishment seems bent on obstructing Harold's campaign.
Previously, the Newsletter had directed its opprobrium at members of Chief Pleas (called conseillers), many of them from venerable families, whom it saw as a corrupt bloc bent on obstructing the Barclays' efforts at modernization.
Ian MacDonald of Florida State University, an oceanographer who was among the first to question the official estimate of 210,000 gallons a day, said he had come to the conclusion that the oil company was bent on obstructing any accurate calculation.
Its name was Dar el Salaam, or "haven of peace". Later we saw Dr. Ibrahim Abuoaf, the commissioner of relief and rehabilitation, to get the government's position on the complaints we had heard that the regime was bent on obstructing the relief effort.
It may make for better headlines to portray anti-vivisectionists as terrorists bent on obstructing medical progress, but it couldn't be further from the truth.
Reid's proposal to allow the Senate to end discussion of proposed nominations with a simple majority vote is the only sane way forward when Senate Republicans are bent on delaying and obstructing presidential nominations like Gina McCarthy's to the Environmental Protection Agency.
"He has been hell-bent on obstructing the smooth implementation of ObamaCare," Wasserman Schultz said.
Walls of smoke obstruct any sign of the town or the crowds that gather to watch; we don't see the faces of the men holding the hammers, just their smoke-shrouded bodies bent on waves of impact.
They are bent on revenge.
