Sentence examples for bent on taking over from inspiring English sources

To others, he is a Bond-style villain bent on taking over the world's supply of chocolate.

This would give too many powers to large corporations bent on taking over public services, such as health and education.

She found refuge in Israel and then moved to the United States, only to find that the Islamic radicals who had terrorized her in Lebanon, she said, were now bent on taking over America.

Channel 4's recent Dispatches programme and the accompanying Sunday Telegraph articles depict Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) as an insidious and extremist organisation bent on taking over institutions in Tower Hamlets, and even the whole country.

All the same, the well of mistrust on both sides runs deep.Many liberals still think the Islamists, however mild they sound today, are bent on taking over in the long run, would abandon democracy once they got into power and would use every sort of chicanery and violence to achieve their goal.

Meanwhile, the DC expanded universe seems to have hit peak crazy with far-out villains such as Suicide Squad's Enchantress, a gyrating ancient sorceress bent on taking over the world, and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice's Doomsday, a monstrous zombie alien creature formed from the dead body of General Zod lovingly infused with Lex Luthor's DNA.

Circa 1985, in holding fast to the old maxim "no enemies on the left" and supporting the presence of Trotskyist wreckers in the Labour party, he rather did my head in – because I was fighting a gaggle of them who had moved into my constituency, hell-bent on taking over an essentially meaningless little branch of the Labour Party Young Socialists by being as unpleasant to other people as possible.

Let's assume for the sake of argument that Gates is hell-bent on taking over the entire computer business, using his dominance of desktop software as an opening wedge.

Made in 1983 for the Apple II computer, Castle Wolfenstein was a classic arcade-style game converted as a mod to Smurfenstein where Nazis were replaced with Smurfs hell-bent on taking over the world.

He seems bent on taking a tougher line on congressional pork (vetoing something soon would help).

Some 40,000 Serbs of Mitrovica are militantly opposed to Kosovo's independence and, backed by Belgrade, are bent on partitioning Kosovo and taking over the police and justice institutions in the north.