Sentence examples for bent on securing from inspiring English sources

To quell any doubts about Pakistan's seemingly uncontrollable spiral into darkness, just recently, Foreign Policy Magazine ranked Pakistan as the tenth most failed state on earth and it would seem its leaders are hell bent on securing the number one slot - an honor it can add to their already dubious distinction as the world's largest incubator of jihadist extremism.

They see him bent on securing his place in history by forging a prominent role for France in the post-cold-war world.

Instead his gentler, kinder politics is bent on securing an absolute grip on the party, seizing all levers through control over the party's rule-making body – the national executive committee (NEC).

The social height that she's bent on securing is one that she herself acknowledges is dull and sterile, she's profoundly self-involved and incapable of true charity, she pridefully contrasts other women's looks with her own, she has no intellectual life to speak of, she's put off from pursuing her one kindred spirit (Selden) by the modesty of his income, and she's in no danger of ever starving.

Bent on securing Reedman's investiture quickly, the Rhodesian government made it publicly known on 19 June that, pursuant to British and Portuguese approval, Reedman would be appointed within seven days.

Bent on securing "what amounted to an unconditional surrender" from Smith (in the words of J R T Wood), the British Prime Minister went to HMS Tiger in a belligerent mindset.

There is no suggestion Benteke will fail to turn up at Villa before Thursday's tour to Portugal and no thought has been given to submitting a transfer request but the 24-year-old is hell-bent on securing a move to a club competing at the other end of the table and intends to have a conversation with Sherwood to make it clear how he feels.

It will take a full, focused 90 minute performance against a hungry Chicago side bent on ruining the party to secure a festive atmosphere from a sold-out, wound tighter than a snare drum, Red Bull Arena.

Republicans are bent on eviscerating America's security against poverty!

But a determined MBA student, hell bent on achieving his career goal, can eventually secure a satisfactory job, even if not a dream job.

But he said that "I personally do not believe" that the Bush administration, out of some Machiavellian desire to secure its political future, is bent on war as the only way to deal with Iraq and change the government there.