Sentence examples for bent on persuading from inspiring English sources

IN general, though, Professor Baumol seems bent on persuading us not to toss out the kinds of labor-intensive and increasingly expensive things that give our lives quality: Mozart quartets, annual physical exams, and, yes, welfare programs for the poor.

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In a setting where women could not refuse to view the ultrasound or where counsellors were bent on persuading them not to have an abortion, perhaps the results would be different.

Having spent $2bn on the company, Zuckerberg is hell-bent on persuading westerners to buy and use Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets.

"Are you mad?" Once again, he seems bent on facing down claims that would persuade most normal public figures that the time had come for retirement, perhaps to a monastery.

The current political scene might have been radically different if Remain had had Diodotus on its side: if you could persuade an assembly of Athenians bent on retribution to spare the lives of a group of rebels, then you could probably best Boris Johnson.

The President here, Pasteur Bizimungu, is a Hutu, and the Clinton Administration is persuaded that the Tutsi-dominated Government is bent on national reconciliation and democracy.

But this could change if the extremists persuade the young that the west is bent on the destruction of their religion.

All this spending managed to persuade voters that the bill's proponents were bent on boosting tax revenues, rather than on curbing smoking among the young.

Meanwhile, such family-friendly initiatives as longer maternity leave and shorter hospital waiting lists have persuaded voters that Mr Fogh Rasmussen is not bent on dismantling the welfare state.

Those attacks helped persuade Israelis that Fatah, like Hamas and Islamic Jihad, was bent on erasing Israel, not just on attaining a state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which Israel occupied in the 1967 war.