Sentence examples for bent on protecting from inspiring English sources

A Scotland Yard inspector (avuncular Garry Marsh) and his bumbling assistant (Jon Pertwee) investigate the death of a voyeur in the theatre's front row, killed (if memory serves aright) by an elderly stagehand bent on protecting one of the showgirls from this predatory punter's designs.

The UIC leadership is one sub-clan, bent on protecting its own interests.

America is bent on protecting its weak airlines and their workers.

Historically, Friedman notes, times of stagnation have been times of reaction, with voters bent on protecting their own interests, hostile to outsiders, and less interested in social welfare.

The movie, based on a real case, makes Captain O'Malley the victim of an anti-female cover-up, by a Marine establishment bent on protecting the dignity of her dead lover, a Vietnam veteran with 35 years of service.

Mr. Mubarak's hospitalization prompted suspicions that he — or the ruling military council, which is increasingly seen as bent on protecting him — may be staging "an elaborate ruse to get him out of the country for treatment," said Hani Shakrallah, editor of the news Web site Ahram Online.

Democrats like nothing better than presenting themselves as the guardians of Medicare -- protecting its finances while adding a broad prescription drug benefit -- against Republicans bent on using the surplus for "tax cuts for the rich".

Mitch McDeere was no longer a young hot-shot lawyer too confident for his own good, he was a man hell-bent on protecting his loved ones.

"They seem to be hell-bent on protecting raptors at the cost of everything else," says MacTavish.

Huston's character will romance Jessica Lange's character Fiona, a "Supreme" witch who's hell-bent on protecting the Coven.

They knowingly spout lies or invalid analyses because they're hell-bent on protecting their self-interest, money and power, regardless of the impact that that has on the larger society.