Sentence examples for bent on seizing from inspiring English sources
Kazakh prosecutors have described him as the head of an extremist, criminal conspiracy bent on "seizing power by inciting civil strife and hatred".
Their leader, Vladimir Ilich Lenin, was a fanatical revolutionary, who managed to organize a relatively small but totally devoted and highly disciplined party bent on seizing power.
The government contends the rebels are separatists bent on seizing territory and launched an offensive to drive them from northern villages where they are based.
The twin crimes underscore what many Colombians see as the intransigence of war-hardened insurgents unwilling to compromise and bent on seizing power by any means.
The turncoat militiamen have been joined, ominously, by figures from the dark past — death-squad leaders who have returned from exile and seem bent on seizing power.
Since the political rise of Silvio Berlusconi in the early 1990s, his supporters have denounced their opponents as Communists bent on seizing power through a judicial takeover of the executive branch.
An array of fighters bent on enforcing a hard-edged brand of Islam and Shariah law — including members of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb — have seized the once tourist-friendly town of Timbuktu and other strategic sites, terrorizing or driving out any other claimants to power, destroying historic shrines and freely meting out punishment in the streets.
The Government appears to be bent upon seizing on the "defenceless doors" of the British Museum and converting the place into premises for the Air Ministry.
For it is then that activists converge on the building, bent on stopping the auctions of properties seized by banks to settle bad debts.
He's been seized by patriot troops bent on revenge after an American officer was found slain with his tongue sliced off.
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).
