Sentence examples similar to bent on retaining from inspiring English sources
Now, with the World Cup under way, this intriguing sporting wizard is bent on helping New Zealand retain the trophy they won in 2008.
That analysis is fine as far as it goes (though both leaders, bent as they are on retaining power, are more flexible and more centrist than most caricatures allow).
The new king is pleading with Barak to retain at least a sliver of territory along the river to shield his regime from Palestinians bent on avenging their bloody defeat in "Black September" of 1970; they still want a trans-Jordanian "Greater Palestine".
Because the central government was also bent on developing the country's interior, employers in coastal cities like Ningbo had to offer ever greater incentives to lure workers from home and retain them.
Lazard Freres had so advised the directors, and had also informed them that Pantry Pride was a small, highly leveraged company bent on a "bust-up" takeover by using "junk bond" financing to buy Revlon cheaply, sell the acquired assets to pay the debts incurred, and retain the profit for itself.
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.
